{"id":76101,"date":"2025-05-05T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76101\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:24:12","slug":"the-hypocrisy-of-britains-military-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76101\/","title":{"rendered":"The hypocrisy of Britain\u2019s military elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commemorations begin today to mark the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. A military procession will leave Parliament Square and head to Buckingham Palace \u2013 the start of four days of events that culminate on Thursday, actual VE Day, with a service of thanksgiving from Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s military top brass will be out in force, laying wreaths at memorials and talking in grave tones about the courage and sacrifice of the Second World War generation.<\/p>\n<p>This generation was ethnically diverse, as highlighted in the set of commemorative stamps released by Royal Mail to mark VE Day. A recent poll found that 86% of the British public agree that the nation should \u2018commemorate all those who fought for Britain in the World Wars, regardless of where they came from\u2019. Only 3% disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s armed forces have long been diverse \u2013 a fact that appears to have eluded the top brass in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commemorations begin today to mark the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. A military procession will leave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[17542,27765,748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,24938,1764,35974],"class_list":{"0":"post-76101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-armed-forces","11":"tag-army","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-ve-day","20":"tag-wales","21":"tag-ww2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114454505944956622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}