The Will Rhodes Portmanteau

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland once had the greatest, most powerful Empire this world has ever seen. She exported law, civilisation, culture plus numerous things such as trade. Free and open trade to the benefit of the home nation as well as those members of the Empire she ruled.

The saying goes; ‘The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire’ - that is how large the body is. The great commonwealth still sits and members, all equal under the rule of law, and with the Queen as head of numerous States, look to the leadership of the home nation. Looking at her, these Britannic Isles, with obvious admiration that such a small country could achieve so much.

The legacy of the Empire is that many still feel British though they live many thousands of miles from her shores and will never set foot in Britain. Many will fight and die for her, swearing an allegiance that is hundreds of years old. Older than the nations that were part of the Empire only to break away to form their own. Empire building is something that Britain was the greatest at - this was proven by the very size and the pink hue that still adorns many-a-globe.

What, then, should she do, this great public apparition that has many who believe so much in her that they would give their life? The ultimate sacrifice for a far off land?

What is seems that is done is that rules, not made in a bygone day, but rules that govern this sceptred isle today. Rules that will not allow a wife to stay with her husband and children because a bureaucrat deems her to have broken a rule. Not only is this an offence to what it means to be British it is an offence even more because her husband is British born, bred, schooled and is a soldier in Her Majesties armed forces.

I am British, English through and through and this offends me! I cannot have a voice in my country of my birth to say that a particular subject brings forth a scene in my mind that will disrupt my country, but a bureaucrat can take away a mother from her children - British children because of a rule and they will not bend. That young mother is Samantha Crozier and she has this blogs support.

Those who enforce these rules are not the British I know - they are the very politically correct demons we should fight against. We have a Scot as prime minister in Britain and he does nought to help this family.

I support Samantha because I am the son of a British soldier that fought in both world war II, Suez, Korea and anywhere else that the British government would send him - giving him leave to die where he stood. The very same government that gives Samantha’s husband the leave to die for his nation but not allow his wife to have leave to stay permanently in the country which is hers, her children’s and, of course, her husbands. Because of a rule.

Let this commonwealth see that the once great nation that wrapped its arms around the world has failed one of their own - one I say because Samantha is Canadian.

That is the hypocrisy of not just Empire, but of the British Empire as was, and of the commonwealth that is now.

You can read Samantha’s story here.