A D-Day veteran has said that under successive governments the UK has gone to “rack and ruin” and defeating Adolf Hitler was a “waste of time.”
The D-Day hero said that back then governments believed in what they were doing and they were true leaders and current government’s no longer lead.
Mervyn Kersh who is a 101-year-old Jewish veteran was born in Brixton in 1924, The Mail reported.
Kersh told the paper, “I think it [the war] was a waste of time, because the benefits we got from it, the wartime camaraderie and everyone, almost everybody, mucked in [with] whatever they could do.
“Whatever [way] they could help somebody else they did. That wasn’t just in the army. You don’t get that now, no.”
He added, “This country has gone right downhill. “
The D-Day hero continued, “I know the population is changing. Some are leaving, and then others are coming who have no understanding or knowledge of what this country was like, not only just its history, but it’s morals.”
Kersh hit out at Sir Keir Starmer saying that the Labour government say they are “going to do this, they’re going to do that,” however, what they are really saying is “they can’t.”
Comparing Sir Winston Churchill and Margret Thatcher to leaders today, he told The Mail, “They led. They didn’t just try to keep the job to the next day, next session, a bit of sparring with the opposition, and then come and have a drink job.
“They were leaders. They believed what they were trying to put over.
“Churchill particularly, because he started warning people what was coming before the war began.”
On the subject of defence he said that the UK should be putting more funds into building up the British Armed Forces, “if that’s the only thing that we can afford,” he insisted that defence “must come first.”
