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This cartoon appeared in the Daily Mail.
You can visit the deplorable
original here
A
bigoted campaign, driven by the Daily Mail, and some other
journals, certain internet forums and joined by shallow
minded Politicians is exacerbating
antipathy against British pensioners who have chosen to live
abroad in Europe and further afield. It reminds me of the
early publicity campaigns in Germany in 1934, which derided
and stereotyped innocent Jewish shopkeepers. They were
scapegoats for the appalling austerity and inflationary
economy of that Nation at that time.
The British pensioner, 70, 80, even 90 years old has little defence against a similar caricature today. Many fought for freedom against the Nazi machine to bring freedom to Europe.
The British pensioner, 70, 80, even 90 years old has little defence against a similar caricature today. Many fought for freedom against the Nazi machine to bring freedom to Europe.
Read from the following link about this aged man of HONOUR.
Consider again the spite generated against his age group by the Daily Mail and the cartoonist!
Does not your heart sink a little?
Throughout
Europe and in Britain many active pensioners are volunteers in
their communities. In Europe they spread the good qualities of
Britishness. Yet the Daily Mail is seeding and then feeding a
hate against them, blaming the austerity on them.
I never did imagine that any newspaper in Britain
could perpetrate such tawdry yet dangerous rubbish.
One prays that the people of Britain will not
be so easily led. But we have
evidence enough that shallow bigoted minds even within the
Government itself is
tending in that direction. Read any cheap-minded forum
site and you can read comments from residents in Britain
damning those of us who have retired - even against those
pensioners living in Britain. Their 'free' T.V.s and bus
passes.
To
the left is a picture of normal life of pensioners in
winter in mid France.
We
have at present the European Commission to protect us. But let
us be warned, if
Britain
pulls out of the European Union, we are not safe from this
insidious campaign against us and the distortion of the
truth within Britain.
Do not assume that in Europe today your future is safe. The British Pensioner today lives in mainland Europe because of treaties signed between the UK and the EU. We can only be sure of our future if these treaties remain firm. WE MUST be represented. We must take action.
The pensioners must Stand UP! and be counted - They must not be so dishonoured.
Do not assume that in Europe today your future is safe. The British Pensioner today lives in mainland Europe because of treaties signed between the UK and the EU. We can only be sure of our future if these treaties remain firm. WE MUST be represented. We must take action.
The pensioners must Stand UP! and be counted - They must not be so dishonoured.
What you and
your friends can do...and what you do WILL make a
difference
- Add your
name to this petition - It demonstrates your need to be
heard. If you do not speak out, no-one can listen and
no-one knows what you feel. -- http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/55085
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YOUR voice must be heard where it matters -
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Circulate to a politician, your own one, one you know,..., · http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps
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Where you read prejudice on a forum or other site, speak out against it.
