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'My friends gave their lives for what, the country of today?': 100-year-old WW2 veteran shocks GMB hosts as he declares winning the war 'wasn't worth it' because of the nation's sorry state - echoing major new poll on Starmer's Britain
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 7, 2025 | Jess Lester and Rory Tingle

Posted on 11/07/2025 4:02:51 AM PST by C19fan

A 100-year-old veteran shocked the hosts of Good Morning Britain today by declaring that winning World War II 'wasn't worth it' due to the state of the UK.

Alec Penstone told Adil Ray and Kate Garraway how he quit his factory job to sign up for the Royal Navy and fight for his country as soon as he came of age.

The war hero recalled serving alongside close friends, many of whom lost their lives, and called himself 'just a lucky one' for having survived.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Yeap his friends died for the future Yookay. "Diversity and Inclusion" is not worth dying for.
1 posted on 11/07/2025 4:02:51 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

“Diversity and Inclusion” is not worth dying for.”

True, but the question is, does the enemy consider it worth killing for?


2 posted on 11/07/2025 4:05:19 AM PST by Orosius
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To: C19fan

Would you die for Islamic and Sodomite supremacy?


3 posted on 11/07/2025 4:10:50 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Sadly Britain, France, Germany. Italy and Russia lost forever its genetic best from 1914-1945, The devolution of Europe into neo pagan, hedonistic decadence was the consequence. Fertile, serious aliens have transformed the culture.


4 posted on 11/07/2025 4:12:36 AM PST by allendale
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To: C19fan

If Hitler had conquered all Europe and had a separate peace with the USA and the Japs kept China in check what would the world look like now? Better or worse?


5 posted on 11/07/2025 4:16:39 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...x)
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To: C19fan

Excellent points made. My dad and uncles fighting in that war is quickly becoming not worth it.


6 posted on 11/07/2025 4:26:46 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

Right now we are at the weak men and women creating hard times. Do we have. enough strong men to reverse the trend?


7 posted on 11/07/2025 4:29:03 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: C19fan

Tucker Carlson made that point during his interview with Piers Morgan.


8 posted on 11/07/2025 4:31:29 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Orosius

“True, but the question is, does the enemy consider it worth killing for?“

Sadly, after the lefts multiple assignation attempts and success on Charlie Kirk the answer is not bbious.


9 posted on 11/07/2025 4:39:01 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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If Hitler had conquered all Europe and had a separate peace with the USA and the Japs kept China in check what would the world look like now? Better or worse?

There would be a lot fewer commies in the world. On the other hand, Germany would probably be the sole atomic power and would eventually attack the US anyway, and with a much better chance of winning.

WWI on the other hand...had we stayed out of it, the world would be a much better place.

10 posted on 11/07/2025 4:50:02 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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He is right but the Brits did this to themselves.

At the end of the war they dumped Winston Churchill and elected Clement Attlee

Clement Attlee was the one who introduced the British trade union dominated welfare state and he was the one who established the UK National Health Services

It's been all down hill since then for the UK since then.

11 posted on 11/07/2025 4:51:09 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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To: shoff

Weak men and strong women- see it in the movies all the time.


12 posted on 11/07/2025 5:32:59 AM PST by Wbigly
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To: allendale

Poland lost even more, and yet they are still somewhat sane, compared to all of those countries.


13 posted on 11/07/2025 5:38:57 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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From the former Secretary of State for Education:

‘One of the problems with the current pace of migration is not just the numbers, which obviously put a pressure on public services, but it is also the sense that new arrivals are not being invited to share in a common culture.


Wow. What a disconnect with reality. Muslims are coming to take over. They do not want to assimilate. They expect to dominate.


14 posted on 11/07/2025 6:02:58 AM PST by marktwain
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To: rdcbn1; All

The British won the war and lost the peace.

They embraced Socialism at the end of WWII, claiming they “deserved it” for winning the war.

Socialism destroyed Britain as a leading industrial power, and the cultural leakage from British socialism has hobbled Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the former colonies in Africa.


15 posted on 11/07/2025 6:06:32 AM PST by marktwain
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So, when does Dictator Starmer have ALEC Penstone arrested? That’s what these fascists do, in order to make their opponents shut up.


16 posted on 11/07/2025 6:19:38 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Orosius

Does the enemy consider it worth killing for?

Crazy people don’t deal in logic it’s a take what you want at anytime for any reason.


17 posted on 11/07/2025 6:22:05 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: central_va
...what would the world look like now? Better or worse?

Sadly, I suspect better.

18 posted on 11/07/2025 6:46:33 AM PST by GingisK
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

......agree..! my father, my father-in-law, four uncles, even an aunt who served in the WAVES, did their part during the Second World War, and for what....? they are all rolling over in their graves right now, seeing how far this country has fallen since then....no telling how fast they are rolling now that the communist Mamdami is now the mayor-elect of Noo Yawk City....


19 posted on 11/07/2025 6:49:01 AM PST by TokarevM57 ( )
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WWI on the other hand...had we stayed out of it, the world would be a much better place.

This - and if Teddy Roosevelt had not been pushed out of NY politics -- more and more it is becoming apparent to me that TR is probably in the ranks of the worst foreign policy presidents of all time.
20 posted on 11/07/2025 7:00:38 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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