Today is VE Day.  75 years ago World War 2 ended in Europe.  That is a matter for celebration.  It is not a day for jingoistic “national” pride.

Allied forces were not just British.  Commonwealth countries made a huge contribution,  and we must not forget the bravery of Free French fighters, the Resistance, the Polish forces who carried on fighting with ferocious tenacity after their country was overrun, the Norwegians, the Yugoslav communists… the list goes on … and, of course, there were the Yanks.

VE Day is as much as anything a celebration of the United Kingdom’s place in an integrated world, our place in Europe.

That our prime minister today is a boastful coward, an incompetent, blown into office on the foul air of his lies and the votes of fools is a matter for national shame.  Britain did, does and ever will belong in Europe.  VE Day reminds us that our place is at the forefront of Europe not skulking on the edges whining and whingeing.