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"Mr President, I am deeply unimpressed with this idea of a European Heritage Label ‘to strengthen European citizens’ sense of belonging to the EU’. Once again, we seem to have a scary 1984-style rewriting of history, just like the wasteful Museum of European History, where no-one can agree when this history is due to start and where, of course, no-one can mention the war. This is an Orwellian exercise that seeks to term World Wars as mere European civil wars, with the realities obscured in a haze of half-truths.
In Brussels last week a French lady insulted my red Remembrance Day poppy as ‘out of date’. I find it disgusting that a symbol of the huge sacrifice that has guaranteed all our freedoms should be treated with such contempt. That poppy commemorates, too, the British soldier who died just last week in Afghanistan. History may be inconvenient and painful but, by God, you get into far more trouble seeking to deny its realities."@en1
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