Are you ashamed that the UK government has betrayed the Commonwealth yet again?

[quietcalendar222]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world...plans.html

Government plans to commemorate WW1 focus heavily on 'black and Asian' servicemen to foster more community cohesion in the UK. Meanwhile white servicemen from the Commonwealth will be forgotten. How disgraceful.

I'm not disparaging black or Asian soldiers here - they played an important role in our victory. But how dare our government deliberately leave out Australia and New Zealand, two of our closes allies, who even kept our flag on their own flags. This is not the first time we've betrayed them either - we ended preferential trading with them to join the ECC.

[Gent 2]

ALL our allies deserve to be remembered equally.

[David GH UK]

I can only say its nothing more than we would expect today.I have seen this type of thing since the late 1950s.
The Commonwealth (Empire then) has been played down ever since we first joined the Common Market.when we bought beef from Europe instead of New Zealand.

The Union Jack is still a part of the Australian and New Zealand flags,but not Canada now. Thats by their own choice.

Its a great shame if the men of the colonies are not recognised. I have been ashamed by a lot Britain has done to former friends these past few years.

EDIT Breaking news in link.

[angelina]

Typical PC pandering. When I was at college doing WW1 and WW2 history I was shocked and amazed that the Asian students in the class were totally ignorant and unaware that over 100,000 Asians fought and died in WW2! They were re-taking their GCSE's btw but obviously their grandparents had never mentioned what part in WW2 they had played if any.
Now it seems that the Anzacs will be ignored which is a total disgrace and an insult to the men that lost their lives fighting for the Mother country. I despair.

[Helen S]

Quoted from the 'Telegraph' ? Lol! You might just as well have used the politically correct BBC - best ignored, just like their employees - fork tongued!

I have this on very good authority, it's a pile of jargon.

[Shawn Robin]

So the UK's found yet another excuse to ignore Canada winning that war for the Allies?
Well that's certainly no surprise.

"In no battle did the Corps ever fail to take its objective, nor did it lose an inch of ground, once that ground was consolidated; and in the 51 months that it had been in the field the Canadian Corps has never lost a single gun. I think one cannot be accused of immodesty in claiming that the record is somewhat unique in the history of the world's campaigns"
-General Sir Arthur Currie, GCMG, KCB

To whit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Can..._World_War

And of all Canada's achievements in WW1, this was its most sterling:

"[D]uring those 96 days the Canadian Corps' four over-strength or 'heavy' divisions of roughly 100 000 men, engaged and defeated or put to flight elements of forty seven German divisions, which represented one quarter of the German forces faced by the Allied Powers fighting on the Western Front."
Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_Hundred_Days

WW2 was no better.
The UK claims "Britain stood alone" before the US entered the war when, in fact, Canadian troops were the only fully armed & equipped army defending Britain during the Invasion Summer of 1940 while Canadian fighter pilots were overhead flying in the Battle of Britain.

But ingrates don't like reminders of such things. Easier to give thumbs down than face up.

[xpatinasia]

The UK government has not done what you claimed.

[John G]

Most of the newspaper articles are total rubbish..