Tweet of the Day: WWII Vet to BNP Candidate in Glasgow…
And speaking of the remembrance of wars past, this came up on Twitter via Stephen Glenn :
Glasgow WW2 veteran to BNP candidate: “I used to shoot people like you” http://tr.im/Drcj
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LOL
Classic. Says more than a million sanctimonious lectures from the self-righteous.
How many hardened BNP supporters and sympathisers ‘tweet’?
Fair play to him. Hit the nail on the head. ’nuff said.
Did the Vet tweet this, or is it just something someone made up?
Colour me sceptical.
Thing is, I have never heard a Vet boasting about shooting Germans, and I’ve been around a lot of vets in my time.
6cp,
According to the Scotsman, it was “82-year-old James Murray, a former Royal Engineer who saw service in the Second World War, fighting his way into Nazi German territory in the Allied advance at the end of the war.”
It doesn’t top the comment overheard around the time of the London subway bombings from a pensioner “We’ve been bombed by better bastards than this,” but you can see it from there.