As the Lisa Nandy woke row drags on, Guido reckons it may be about to get worse for the Shadow Foreign Secretary. Footage dug up from early 2019 shows that Lisa Nandy refused to disagree with John McDonnell who had made headlines after condemning the wartime leader as a villain. When asked herself whether Churchill was a hero or villain, Nandy described it as a “stupid question” and “dangerous stuff”…
In the clip she goes on to defend Corbyn’s right-hand-man by claiming “those are not his views”, despite the then-shadow chancellor using the exact term “villain” when asked to describe Churchill. Liability Lisa was supposedly the down-to-earth red wall candidate in last year’s Labour leadership election…
Biden’s already got to work marking his stamp on the presidency by removing the bust of Churchill from the Oval Office. Replacing Winston in Joe’s new look White House is socialist Cesar Chavez, who joins the room’s new pantheon of left-wing icons including a new bust of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Churchill’s grandson wasn’t happy the first time this happened..,
Thanks to Biden there are now Churchill statue rows happening on both sides of the Atlantic, after Lisa Nandy yesterday compared Boris’s support for Parliament Square’s effigy to Trump’s encouragement of the Charlottesville protestors. Boris is clearly still working hard to befriend Biden, however, telling a news pool of cameras yesterday “there’s nothing wrong with being woke”.
Perhaps Boris will now follow suit and get a bust of Che Guevara commissioned for No. 10…
David Lammy found himself at the centre of an anti-woke racism row last night after daring to praise Churchill on Twitter. The Shadow Lord Chancellor dared to praise the former PM on social media last night, contrasting him as a “pioneer of human rights” compared to the current crop of Conservatives who dare to question the current Human Rights Act. Unfortunately for Lammy, the hard left have now firmly concluded Churchill was the nastiest racist of the 1940s…
Among the 1200-strong pile on included Vidya Krishnan, a freelance journalist, who accused Lammy of having never heard of India or Bengal; Channel 4 host Chanté Joseph who accused him of being on crack; and New York-based writer Aditya Mukerjee, who says Churchill committed genocide.
Guido presumes now-cancelled Lammy’s party membership application to Lawrence Fox’s Reclaim Party is in the post…
Sir Winston is finally set to be freed from his scaffolding prison in time for President Macron’s visit to London tomorrow, the Telegraph reports. Seems arbitrary given the streets of Paris are, as per usual, ablaze with protestors, so Macron may not be that bothered about a boxed-up statue…
Unfortunately for his fellow Westminster sculptures, as Churchill is only being freed for the 80th anniversary of General de Gaulle’s “Appel” from London – encouraging the French to resist German occupation – the other boarded up statues of Gandhi, Mandela and the Cenotaph will not be freed from their trappings.
Sir Winston may not enjoy the fresh air for long, however, as he will be covered up again “if security assessments and intelligence about future protests merits such action.” Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
UPDATE 21.00: Welcome back Winston
Winston Churchill in a radio broadcast, 21 March 1943…
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
WATCH: Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s message to the nation and the commonwealth on Victory in Europe (VE) Day, 8 May 1945. https://t.co/UyXz7SWRq2
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) May 8, 2020
75 years ago today, after 6 years of war, during which at one time the British people stood alone for a year against the fearsome Nazi war machine, Churchill spoke to the nation on VE Day, telling them with understatement:
“We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing.”
