In a move sure to get Christians and tabloid newspaper journalists up in arms, the Prime Minister has removed all Christian imagery from his Christmas cards.
The picture on the front of his cards does not contain any sign of angels, crosses or any other Christian imagery.
But it’s not only Christianity that has been removed, so too has all trace of winter. In a move some will suspect is making the cards a tool in the political battle over global warming, the “Christmas” cards paint a picture of a spring or summer day.
“This is an appalling case of political correctness gone mad. Doesn’t the Prime Minister understand our history, our heritage and what made this country great?” said…
Oh hang on. Stop right there. That’ll be Winston Churchill’s Christmas card I’m looking at.
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Good spot. The endless bollox about “Council X bans Christmas!” is so totally tired. Tabloids have lied so long and hard on this subject that they are beyond sanity on it.
Haha, very good!
“Tabloids have lied so long and hard on this subject that they are beyond sanity on it.”
All purpose sentence no. 43.
Mind you, that’s not any spring/summer view, it’s a view of Chartwell in Kent, which Churchill regarded as one of the most beautiful views in the world. His admiration of the view from Chartwell is often regarded as being one of his major sources of inspiration in his public life, and, particularly, during the war. In essence, he was damned if Hitler was going to get his hands on such a beautiful view!
When you’ve been facing spin long enough, you start to expect everything to spin.
Paul. Mmmm. I suspect that the view from the Berchtesgaden is a trifle more interesting?
Martin: I invoke Godwin’s Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Good for Brown. Though I’m not sure about the absence of winter. In reality, ‘Christ’-mas was really piggy-backed onto existing winter solstice celebrations. The Romans celebrated the solstice on 25 Dec. Then the Emperor Constantine converted…
Dozens of cultures across the world have festivities around this time of year – e.g. Dong Zhi in China. It seems pretty obvious to me that the root of this coincidence is the fact that the days start to get longer again. To the ancients – in the northern hemisphere at least – it must have been a quite a relief every year, and worth celebrating! Still is, in my view – and a good excuse to open your pressies on 21 Dec (at exactly 17.47 this year…!)
Was that a point whizzing over Terry’s head there
Terry, Dong ZHi just means ‘winter coming’ and is not a ‘festival’ that I am aware of as being celebrated as such in China. Do you have any reason why you think it is?
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