Our politicians are in dire need of moral rearmament
by Julian Mann, The Conservative Woman:
WHILST there was a real possibility that Britain would be invaded by the Nazis in 1940, Winston Churchill was consuming a considerable amount of champagne as well as whisky on a daily basis. He also probably ate in a week what would have fed five families in London’s East End for a month.
But if you had put this to a Briton in an air raid shelter at the time, he or she would not have been bothered. Why not? Because they knew that Churchill was not asking them to take any risk to their life or limb that he was not prepared to take himself. They knew that if Britain were invaded he would go down defending his country. He carried a revolver for this very purpose.
That appears to be the essential moral difference between Christian Britain’s political class and the post-1960s generation of rock-star-imitating politicians in Westminster. Of course, in peacetime conditions the latter cannot be blamed for not having a ‘stand or die’ opportunity to prove their mettle.
But the sense that the present political class are mainly self-serving is surely a major reason for the widespread public disillusion with them. This perception, fuelled by the MPs’ expenses scandal of 2009, surely turned into a howl of outrage when 17.4million British people defied the political establishment and voted to leave the European Union in 2016.
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