Does this government have no shame or sense of history?

Question

Several historically important sites have been sold off or are being sold for redevelopment into prisons or housing for asylum seekers or up market housing

Raf Coltishall
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7845354.stm

RAF Bentley Priory
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3360291/Bentley-Priory-A-piece-of-history-for-the-few.html

Now the former home of the Red Arrows and The Dam Busters (RAF Scampton) is being ear marked for sale

Men flew from airfields such as Coltishall, and Scampton to fight for US and OUR freedom, we repay them by selling their memory to the highest bidder??

The Decisions that were made at Bentley Priory in the late summer of 1940, saved not only Britain but the entire free world from the threat of Nazi domination, and now this Historic site is to become "luxury flats" does this make anyone else sick to their stomachs??

Answer 1

That just typical Labour scum for you



No respect for the people that saved us!!!!

Answer 2

It would be nice if we could keep every historic building, landmark or base for our future generations.

Time changes everything, and it is rare to find a house that has been here since we settled in the UK!! This is because of the increase in population, the depreciating of the original buildings etc, etc.



Let me put it another way, would it just become a paying attraction? For the benefit of visitors to the UK? What about the people who live here now and need homes?

You have to weigh it up on both sides.

Answer 3

a thumbs down I am part of these stations I was there I have my memories Yes i will be sad when these stations are Gone But who is going to pay to keep them Going NOT ME I am a pensoner



the People Living in Freedom because of our Sacrifices I think Not



and where and when did the Thumbs down serve ?????



Yes but it is Only one of thousands of sites It is time to move on and place a Memorial in the new complex to show what was there



I was in London during the Blitz do we make the site of every doodle bug and V2 that crashed an Historic site ??



How stupid would it be to save all 15000 concentration camps across Europe save a few Biggan Hill for example



Just about everything east of Suez has gone without a whimper



Changi in Singapore My favorite RAF WW 2 station is now Changi International



if the UK wants to save its heritage they NEED to do away with death duties



because Britain's Heritage will be sold to the USA to pay death duties Look what happened to the Duke Of Bedford to keep Britain's treasures he had to open a theme park to pay his debit Just because his father died



Over the Next 100 years we will loose a thousand Stately homes to developers because of death duties



How many VC holders sell their medals to live



North Weild is WW2 i love the markets and used to watch the Bike races but How people from ww2 are still alive at today's count there is less than 5 % of the population that were actually alive to fight in WW2



is it Fair that some old runway that means nothing to a 16 year old not be used to build him a flat or House



Yes i miss the bases i was on RAF Laarbruch is now Weeze airport and all the old Buildings are being demolished the local town has a small museum



in Australia the second oldest air force we have Virtually closed Point Cook the First RAAF station 1919



it is sad that the Historic Airstrips of WW2 are disappearing But the Imperial war Museum can only sustain so many stations and the rest must Go



I understand How you feel and i sympathise with you the only solution to save the memory of these Historic sites is a Placard with a metal Engraving showing from this point and the Military Station Layout



It will have to be inside somewhere because it will be stolen by Vandals and People like me who want a souvenir



I was at the Sydney Olympic Games working in the Village



went back 3 years late every location from then gone except a placard saying this was the site of the Olympic Village 2000 with a map



Every time i go back to the UK for a visit i find places that no longer exist Magnificent Buildings Historic Buildings Like Assembly Passage where My grand mother worked and Lived in 1886 heading for the developers



the Biggest insult was the Cemetery in London where the council used 20,0000 monuments as road fill.and abandoned the Site I was unable to find anything related to my grandfather who was buried there in 1909



I wish you well and thank you for igniting all these memories

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I know what you mean about shame this government has brought....My Great uncle who joined the army in October 1939 to fight the Nazi`s....and for world freedom..... wounded twice. wasn`t able to have his dieing last wish...which was a cigarette when he was in hospital..some pay back for him....and thanks

As he said was it worth it all those years ago fighting for personal freedom...when facism has been brought in by the back door as it has... this smoking ban is so wrong...can`t the government see it or just brushing under the carpet

it makes you proud hey the way this nanny state is going.....and we are all guilty of letting it happen...are we prepared to fight it like our Grandparents....no

Answer 6

So, in your opinion it would be better to just let these ex-bases rot, rather than for the taxpayer to re-coup some of the money they cost to build and operate?



That fact is we're not facing the threat of massed Soviet bombers anymore, so the RAF is turning into a force designed for close support of ground forces, with a secondary air defence capability. We don't need to keep a large number of airbases active in the UK.

Answer 7

I agree generally, but how can the MoD afford the Red Arrows when they cannot afford decent body armour or boots?

Answer 8

None whatsoever mate!

Tony Blair himself said he didn't give a stuff for tradition - though he and his dismal successor are quite prepared to use our army traditions to help inspire the soldiers their policies have left so under-equipped in the distant wars they have sent them off to.

Answer 9

This government has long become the steptoe of our proud history . the trouble is once they are sold of and destroyed they are gone forever , our children children's heritage has been flogged of like so many worn out suspenders

Answer 10

No. it doesn't. The current government has no interest in history at all, nor has it since the days of Tony Blair.

Answer 11

what you gonna do keep all old military bases open?



we remember those brave men that fought for the worlds freedom.



there's no need to keep old bases open to do this

Answer 12

that seems awful. its a piece of history they shouldn't destroy.why don't you start a petition or contact your MP? they might be able to help

Answer 13

The one thing that's constant in life is change.

Answer 14

all the government is interested in is making money out of all of us!