The Talking Clock: Diana: Yes, Mr. Cameron, we approve wholeheartedly

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Saturday, 19 February 2011

Diana: Yes, Mr. Cameron, we approve wholeheartedly

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has followed this blog's lead... by publicly praising the humanitarian work and achievements of Diana, Princess of Wales.

A report in the Daily Express highlights the PM's warm words for 'the People's Princess' during a Downing Street reception for the Diana Award - of which, he now becomes patron.

He told those attending: "The Diana Award is a wonderful way to leave a living legacy to the late Princess and to recognise our country's talented and inspirational young people who volunteer, work and campaign for the benefit of others. [...] If you think about what she achieved, she wasn't somebody who handed out lots of money. She didn't have money like a Government minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Prime Minister. But she had huge influence because of what she spoke about and what she cared about."

Awesome!

Keep on like that, Mr. Cameron...

Now, if you could kindly brick over that memorial sewage duct at Hyde Park and build a huge, 'D' shaped eternal flame on The Mall (or in front of Kensington Palace) as a proper national monument to Diana... well, I might even be tempted to vote for you.

Wonder how the marriage wrecker is getting on with flogging biscuits on The Archers?

Need we say more?

One single handedly destigmatises HIV/AIDS and gets a ban on anti-personnel landmines (while persuading everyone, everywhere, that's it's okay to express your thoughts and feelings, your hopes and dreams) all within the space of a short, 36 year and one month life...

...the other does a nice line in custard creams.

Pah!

4 comments:

reiverdave19 February 2011 16:59
I saw for for myself the awful pretence of a memorial to Diana when visiting London in late 2009 and was appalled at the underwhelming impact of this non-memorial.

What a shameful tribute to the most wonderful, sincere person to live in any palace at any time. Still, it's only to be expected when she outshone, no eclipsed! the rest of that parasitical begrudging (brady)bunch. Rest assured the memory and love "We the People" feel for the Peoples Princess will endure long after her elitist, irrelevant in-laws and leftard apologist, traitor of an ex-"husband" thankfully has long faded from memory.
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The Talking Clock19 February 2011 17:22
reiverdave, with such a marvellous comment, I think I'm going to have to make you a 'honorary' something or another around here.

While trying to fathom it, know that - with such opinions expressed - you're welcome anytime and we'd probably get on like a house on fire in the real world.

There's a friendship cemented, in the name of Diana....
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reiverdave20 February 2011 15:55
Sir,
Thanks for printing my musings/rants and thanks for your support, and your very kind comments.

I am neither a politician, professor or poet but i am a patriot and a realist seeking only to help empower our people and take back our rights and freedoms not to mention our pride and self respect as a people, a nation. If i can persuade even a few people to open their eyes and discover what i have these recent years and act upon it then i have achieved what i set out to do. Warmest regards,
rd.
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The Boiling Frog20 February 2011 16:51
Agree about the memorial, it's a meaningless waterfall that was conceived amongst artistic gobbledygook and it doesn't even work properly. If you didn't know in advance what it was about, that it was a memorial and to whom would be mystery
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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992