This is a re-post from a couple of years ago & is an excerpt from George McDonald Fraser’s excellent Quartered Safe Out Here in which he compared the so-called Land Fit for Heroes to Blighty today ... the failed multicultural socialist paradise where everyone has ‘rights’ which the taxpayer has to fund but no one has any responsibilities. The tragedy that unchecked liberalism has wrought upon us all. Thus it is entirely appropriate to consider the veterans view of the society that our political class has created, in their name.

Anyway, over the weekend, Freedom left the following comment which I have corrected for spelling, punctuation & grammar but not flawed thinking (hence the re-post this morning)

You fascist! Sorry if Britain has decided to accept the existence of people who aren't white middle class Christians. Go and live in America where you can be as Tory and racist as you like.

But you're right; the land fit for heroes has gone because of people like you. The land fit for heroes is one of multiculturalism and freedom. If we want to keep a land fit for heroes the first thing we have to so is rebuild the NHS or it too much as strain to open your probably welded shut wallet

Firstly, aside for the catastrophic failure of this country’s public education system which has become a bottomless money pit that does nothing but continue to espouse discredited liberal social theory, the NHS is probably the next worst culprit. However trying to decide which government policy has actually been the least successful is a little like trying to work out who was the worst out of Andrei Chikatilo, Pedro Alonso Lopez, Moses Sithole or Geoffrey Dharma

However when it comes to multiculturalism, why is it that if you are say an Australian ( & maybe your great grandfathers name is on a British & Commonwealth War Memorial) you are only granted a 2 year work permit. Yet if you arrive illegally for Mogadishu with a couple of dozen of your tuberculosis riddled relatives, the taxpayers largess is heaped upon you & you get a British passport ? If that makes any sense, I promise never to have another drink

& as for being a ‘fascist’ … is that fascist in the Romano-Grecian sense, or fascist as exemplified by German National Socialism in the mid-20th Century ?

Still, the now sadly late GMF says it all so so much better ...

Still, the Britain they see in their old age is hardly 'the land fit for heroes' that they envisaged - if that land existed in their imaginations, it was probably a place where pre-war values co-existed with decent wages & housing. It was a reasonable, perfectly possible dream, & for a time existed, more or less. And then it changed, in the name of progress & improvement & enlightenment, which meant the destruction of much that they had fought for & held dear, & the betrayal of familiar things that they loved. Some of them, to superficial minds, will seem terribly trivial, even ludicrously so - things like county names, & shillings and pence, & the King James Version, & yards & feet & inches; yet they matter to a nation.