The Death of John Bull

This is disgusting:

The 15 British marines and sailors, who had been detained in Iranian territorial waters on March 23, left Iran for their home country, while thanking Iran for their release.

"I am thankful to the Iranian government for releasing me," said the only female sailor, Faye Turney, in the 15-member group of the British marines in an exclusive interview with IRNA upon leaving Iran Thursday morning.

Asked about her feeling as a mother upon departure, Mrs. Turney said she was happy that she would see her baby daughter and family.

She said that while in Iran she and other members of the group had been treated well and humanely by Iran.

"(We have been treated) humanely. They (Iranians) treated us well," said Turney.

Also asked whether she would visit Iran once again after returning home, Turney said, "Under different circumstances yes I would; as a tourist."

One could argue that Turney and her propaganda-tool brethren were no better than tourists the first time around.

No truer indication of the decline of the Royal Navy need be sought than that 15 officers and men of Her Majesty's navy surrendered without a shot fired, gave up operational information when inconvenienced, took part in Iranian propaganda, and continued to propagandize upon leaving Iran.

This kind of conduct would have resulted in their court martials not long ago.

Among the other things I did during my time in the Air Force, I was an instructor teaching our future officers how to resist the enemy following capture. The vast majority would sooner die than act as these people did, utterly bereft of honor and willing to harm their fellow countrymen to save their own skins.

Sir Winston Churchill, the great British statesman and warrior who took over a command in the trenches of the Western Front after his planned invasion of Gallipoli failed; who himself had been a prisoner of war during the Boer War and escaped the enemy at great personal risk rather than be their propaganda tool; who stood alone and unbowed against Hitler's hordes like Leonidas at Thermopylae; famously remarked upon the occasion of the end of the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

It is a sad reality that a single generation after the great man's demise sees the fatal inversion of that sentiment, due largely to the castration of Great Britain under the European Union.

For centuries, whenever the cause of freedom required a champion, John Bull was there. Now he heeds the call no more. RIP.