Are younger people really indifferent to D-Day? (Picture: Metro/Getty)
In MetroTalk, is it true that younger people are indifferent to D-Day, or are they unfairly labeled as ignorant and apathetic to history and politics?
One reader argues why the older generation shouldn’t dismiss the youth so readily. After all, isn’t it them who are actually taking stand?
And, is it such a hardship to grow up without Sky TV? Our readers can think of much worse things they’ve had to live without.
Share your thoughts on these topics and more in the comments.
Kids still observe the two minutes silence
Tommy from London (MetroTalk, Mon) says the younger generation ‘probably don’t have any idea about D-Day, or even care’
Is he not aware that every November, students across the country consistently maintain a two-minute silence to remember our war dead?
Meanwhile Edna (MetroTalk, Mon) claims Nigel Farage’s milkshake-wielding assailant doesn’t know anything about politics because ‘she’s an OnlyFans model’, ‘who some might suggest has had cosmetic surgery’.
I suppose we are supposed to discount the opinions of anyone who’s had to work odd jobs to make ends meet, then? That would exclude most adults in the UK. Or anyone who’s had Botox?
That would exclude a few politicians People need to take a leaf out of the late great Michael Mosley’s book and judge the world based on hard evidence, rather than their own, inevitably biased, presumptions. Ryan Cooper, London
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Veterans have faith in the young
The younger generation tend not to support Nigel Farage (Credits: Getty Images/Westend61)
When actual veterans were asked, they said they’d put their faith in young people. And why not? The younger generation have done a lot more to combat fascism than their elders.
Like it or not but Nigel Farage is today’s equivalent of a fascist leader – a charismatic orator with an intense dislike for all things foreign, sweeping up the desperate with easy answers to complex problems, whose right-wing tropes divide communities.
The older generation have appeased Farage. It is the younger generation who are taking a stand.
The weapons are different but the attitude is the same – we will not tolerate your hate or your lies.
We will fight back with determination, humour and ingenuity, as true Brits do. In this case, with milkshake; the latest salvo in the same war on fascism that was fought on the Normandy beaches.
What do you think Churchill would think of Nigel Farage’s form of patriotism? (Picture: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Winston Churchill – himself an ardent pro-European – would be proud. Sharon, Manchester
I’m puzzled that Roger Watts (MetroTalk, Wed) will be voting Labour ‘for the first time in 60 years’ because he wants the public to not ‘be badly and dishonestly led’.
Were he not talking about a party led by slippery Sir Keir Starmer then I might start to understand. I can’t see how Starmer as PM would be a move ‘towards strength, truth, positive action’ or how he’d be a defender of British culture.
It was only a few years ago when Starmer literally went on bended knee to endorse neo-Marxist critical race theory, which demonises the history and culture of Britain and people of European descent. Yet, in the run-up to elections, he and his candidates are now draping themselves in the Union Flag.
Is Sir Keir Starmer too changeable? (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
While Roger is uncertain how Starmer would stand up to ‘greedy unions’, it is clear that Starmer will subjugate this country to the will of the EU and a warmongering US and Nato.
And will he really save British culture from mass immigration? C Porter, Manchester
Dispelling the ‘greedy’ union myth
I’d like to applaud Roger on doing the sensible thing and voting Labour.
Given he describes them as ‘greedy’, however, I must question his understanding of what a union is.
Unions are not inherently greedy. They are simply ordinary working people joining together in numbers to collectively negotiate fair pay and conditions and guard against exploitation by greedy employers. David Bamber, Preston
Unions are no more ‘greedy’ than the heads of big business, or indeed MPs. Graham Stanbridge, London.
Readers react to Sunak growing up without Sky
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Rishi Sunak thinks doing without Sky in his youth was a hardship. He won’t be getting my vote.
When I was a child, we never had a fridge, car, phone or colour TV. My dad worked on the docks in Liverpool. As the youngest of six, I sometimes never had anything to eat.
Stocking fillers at Christmas were an apple, orange, tangerine and some nuts. No I wasn’t born in the 1800s. I am only 66. That guy doesn’t know he’s born. Su Jones, Burscough
Wouldn’t you just have a lot more respect for these politicians if they just said, ‘Look, actually, I had quite a comfortable upbringing. But I realise that is not the case for everyone. And I’m going to try my level best to even things out more and try to give everyone a fair crack of the whip.’ Dec, Essex