No respect

Published: 16 December, 2010

• THE lack of respect shown to Churchill’s statue and the Cenotaph during the students’ protests is tantamount to treason. 

My uncle was 19 when he was killed in the Second World War. Winning that war meant we British could hold demonstrations, such as the student protests.

When I saw some of the students/pupils on TV, they were laughing, as if were a day off school. 

When the police “kettled” them, they were complaining and some were crying. It did not seem so funny any more. That it because it is not. The Jarrow marchers of 1936 were not laughing as they walked 300 miles to London to highlight poverty.

DF GOWERS
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