What are you reading Joe
Holiday Haunts
What is that
In short it was a holiday guidebook issued
By the Great Western Railway in 1947
Mummy gave to me as a birthday present
May I look
What do you notice Patricia
I know what you are going to say
Blue Remembered Hills
I love the girl on the cover
Beautiful and blonde
As are her nuclear family in the beach
I have studied these photographs
And without exception the people were pale
Really
Yes
In 1947 England was white
No matter what the malignant academics say
Were some of the photographs posed
Obviously
But there are hundreds of general photographs
All pale
Even though a war had just finished
Life was good
The thing that did strike me
Was that even during these halcyon days
That the traitors were hard at work behind the scenes
Their mistakes still haunt us
Many people will say that is an unfair view Joe
That is up to them
It is still a free country
Even though that is now under threat
Things change
Do they
Or is that an illusion
I have always said
If it is not broken
This country was broken after the war
I disagree
It was tired and bruised but it was not broken
How do you know that
As you were not there
But I have spoken to the people who were
They have always in so many words
Said the same thing to me
That being
Sins of Our Fathers