On the 10th November 2014, as the guest speaker for the
annual Tom Olsen Lecture, Nigel Farage claims that the 1918 Armistice was
"the biggest mistake of the entire 20th century. He said:
“I believe we should have continued with the advance. We
should have pursued the war for a further six weeks, and gone for an
unconditional surrender. Yes the last six weeks of the war cost us 100,000
casualties, and I’m prepared to accept that a further six weeks of war might
have cost us another 100,000."
Such a low respect for the value of human life. If this is his bellicose outlook towards the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles, how can we trust this man if he were to gain power; a man with so little regard for human life. If another war were to break out, would his answer be to just throw UK citizen after UK citizen into the fray. It also demonstrates Farage's actual lack of knowledge of history.
No comments:
Post a Comment