When president Sarkozy took sympathy on the Canadian political figures, he was more magnanimous that the oligarchy in my native Blackpool who took the money from the charities but left the hero's stranded at home.
Derek Coyle, left to swim for his life when E-boats destroyed his landing craft on 6th June 1944, floundering off the Normandy beach for a full day before being rescued and repatriated back to Home waters.
Last year he was offered and accepted an invitation to revisit those beaches but never arrived because of maladministration by a Blackpool councillor.
So much for Veteran's support.
Sarkozy took pity on Harper, WikiLeaks dump shows
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was invited to France’s 2009 D-Day memorial because French President Nicolas Sarkozy felt sympathy for Mr. Harper’s political troubles, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks.
The reasons for the invitation are included in a cable from the U.S. embassy in Paris, where a French official explains that Mr. Sarkozy didn’t invite German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Second World War memorial because the French would then be obliged to invite leaders from Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic, and give them all a chance to speak at the long ceremony.
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