HMS Victory to Be Sold? Fight for Your Right to Your Heritage
Lord Nelson’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 was a pivotal date in British History. Nelson’s iconic message of “England Expects…” has become a clarion call for British patriots down the years to fight for their land and people. Nelson’s death on the mighty HMS Victory saw the passing of a true national hero, a hero who could not easily be replicated in these wishy-washy, guilt-ridden times that we live in.
So the news that his ship, the HMS Victory, may be sold off to a private owner to cut costs should send a shiver down the backbone of every true Englishman. The Ministry of Defence has claimed that Victory is too expensive to maintain and may have to be put in private hands to alleviate the £1.5 million per year that the MoD spends on her upkeep.
£1.5 million per year? Absolute chicken feed when one considers the billions that the MoD have wasted, and are still wasting, in the futile war in Iraq. Or the millions spent on the annual shindig of muggers, rapists and knife-wielding maniacs commonly referred to as the Notting Hill “Carnival.”
That the government is prepared to see Starbucks and McDonalds situated on one of England’s greatest treasures should come as no surprise after it has been revealed that the United Nations has threatened Britain with action for not doing enough to protect its national heritage sites.
Unesco, the UN’s cultural agency, has told the British government that it wants urgent action to protect seven world heritage sites, including Stonehenge, which it claims are in danger from building developments and that in some cases, the government is reneging on its legal obligations to protect them. They have threatened to put the Tower of London on their “world heritage sites in danger” list.
One wonders if the current government would be quite so lax in protecting such sites if they could unearth an Anglo-Saxon mosque or a Neolithic Afro-Caribbean Community Centre.
