Today’s fact: My father and grandfather both had to go to war in Europe.
My son and I have not had to go to war in Europe. I am very grateful.
The greatest achievement of the EU is surely that it has made war in
most of Europe unthinkable. When you remember that more than 450,000 British
people were killed in World War Two, and about 750,000 in World War One, while millions
more were injured, and millions more lost their homes, it is odd that nobody
seems to care about this.
Perhaps people in Britain now just take peace in Europe for granted. That is
very, very foolish. The peaceful years since the founding of the EU are
actually a glaring exception in Europe’s history. Before that, since the dawn
of time, the continent’s history has been dominated by virtually unrelieved
war.
What is particularly worrying about the anti-Europeans, is that they do
not just want to leave the EU, they want to destroy the organisation and make
everyone else leave too.
But even if that happened, in this day and age you could not get, say, ten years of war,
with mass rape and murder, atrocities on all sides, hundreds of thousands
driven from their homes, could you? No? Ever heard of Yugoslavia?
However much you hate immigration, is this a price worth paying to
reduce it? War is hell. Keep it out of Europe. Vote Stay.
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