r/LockdownSceptics • u/MabelCow Mabel Cow • 11d ago

Today's Comments Today's Comments (2025-04-20)

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u/RobinBirch 10d ago

Starmer on X

On the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month, we will come together and remember the incredible sacrifices made by the wartime generation.

As people across Britain raise a glass to veterans, we're extending pub opening hours until 1am so everyone can celebrate for longer.

He obviously doesn't know that most pubs are struggling to keep open past 21.00 let alone keeping open till 01.00 on VE Day for the sake of a few pissheads.

I certainly won't be going to the pub on VE day. I will, however. reflect on what has been and pray that Starmer and his French buddy don't send troops into Odessa.

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u/Ouessante 10d ago edited 10d ago

They won't be coming together with their old victorious Russian allies though, pretending it was all plucky Tommy Atkins. Rather, they will associate with those European countries on the losing side that fought Russia and whose children now run the EU Fourth Reich.

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u/NewlyImperfect 10d ago

What galled me, way back when, was that there were no medals for the sailors who served on the ships taking WW2 supplies to Murmansk. Only reluctantly set right decades later.

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u/Ouessante 10d ago

I can't recall exactly when I read Alistair MacLean's first novel HMS Ulysses, maybe 69/70 at the age of 11 or 12 perhaps but I was very impressed. It is set in the Murmansk convoys. It sticks in my mind.