"Gad, Sir, Lord Deadingstone is right. It's only fair that the Iranians have a nuclear bomb as well. We must have a level playing field and all y' know."
Where is Colonel Blimp? Some have predicted that he would re-emerge when Britannia needs him, but as England kneels before their adversaries he is no where to be found.
"Colonel Blimp" was a symbol for the moral dilemma and what can perhaps best be described as the "conflicts of conscience" that England faced during World War Two. "Colonel Blimp" represented a a pre-war honor and a code of military conduct and he was unwilling to have himself be dragged down to the moral level of his belligerent uncivilized adversaries.
Today, David Low's "Colonel Blimp" would lay bare a morality warped by political correctness rather that prejudice, but the overall message remains the same, that the values of fair play continue to emasculate Britain's foreign policy and do nothing but feed the crocodile with the hope that they will be the last to be eaten.
Make no doubt about it, England's prostration to tyranny leaves dangerous implications for what remains of the freedom loving world.
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