Sir Patrick Moore

**LilyThePink** · 01-05-2012, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Marilyn

extract from Wiki...

.^[9] The war had a significant influence on his life: his only romance ended when his fiancée, a nurse called Lorna, was killed by a bomb which struck her ambulance. Moore subsequently remarked that he never married because "there was no one else for me...second best is no good for me...I would have liked a wife and family, but it was not to be."^[10] In his autobiography he stated that after sixty years he still thought about her, and that because of her death "if I saw the entire German nation sinking into the sea, I could be relied upon to help push it down."^{[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore}

Gulp, you've just added a new dimension to the man for me. I remember him as a vast shambling, scruffy, squinting sort of guy, and now he has a tragic romantic side too.

However, with his size, he would be an asset in sinking something.

**London Pride** · 01-05-2012, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by LogicAndFairness

I heard he said something akin to racial incitement and incitement to murder. Is that right or is it that he targeted a white ethnicity that is not protected so he is a hero rather than a villain perhaps?

Patrick Moore: “I’m no European – the English are best”

TV astronomer Patrick Moore has expressed some frank views on Germany, and Britain’s other European neighbours, in the latest issue of Radio Times magazine.

“I’m no European,” Moore, 89, told E Jane Dickson. “Why? Go to Europe and look around. The Germans tried to conquer us. The French betrayed us. The Belgians did very little and the Italians made us our ice cream.

“Just look at the world now and look at it when we had a bigger say in it. The English are best. Stand up for England!”

This 17-year old lad, instead of taking up his scholarship to Cambridge, lied about his age to join the RAF where he served the duration of the war.

To my mind he can say anything he blo0dy well pleases. That's his right. And he earned it.

**newinn14** · 01-05-2012, 11:37 AM

Wasn't he a signatory for hope not hate? I seem to remember him doing something with the reds a few years back.

**AndyMinion** · 01-05-2012, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by newinn14

Wasn't he a signatory for hope not hate? I seem to remember him doing something with the reds a few years back.

No idea, but I doubt it - he was chair of the United Country Party sometime in the 70's/80's and is now a patron of UKIP.

**LilyThePink** · 01-05-2012, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by newinn14

Wasn't he a signatory for hope not hate? I seem to remember him doing something with the reds a few years back.

Well, if he believes that the BNP are synonymous with national socialists(as is successfully projected), then he would have fallen for all that.

It was really up to the BNP to eject all that stuff, but they never managed to remove the rot. Still, it's all over now anyway, spilt milk and all that.

**Road_Hog** · 01-05-2012, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by newinn14

Wasn't he a signatory for hope not hate? I seem to remember him doing something with the reds a few years back.

I doubt they'd have him.

Sir Patrick attacked over 'racist' comments

"Sir Patrick Moore was accused of racism yesterday after claiming that Britain was being "swamped by parasites".

The astronomer and television presenter made the comment while addressing a pensioners' meeting organised by the charity, Age Concern.

He criticised the amount of Government and National Lottery money given to immigrants, compared with that spent on the elderly.

"We are being swamped by people who come here because we are a soft touch. I know people will say 'racist, racist, racist'," he said."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-comments.html

He's also spoken out against the global warming nutters and green taxes.

**Dee-Dee** · 01-05-2012, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by Gaucho

One of my heroes,a great man.

Mine too, he made my early interest in astronomy worth the effort. Lily mentioned Sagan. I was very fond of him too.

**Gaucho** · 01-05-2012, 03:25 PM

Good to hear people acknowledge the great man.

**LogicAndFairness** · 01-05-2012, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by London Pride

This 17-year old lad, instead of taking up his scholarship to Cambridge, lied about his age to join the RAF where he served the duration of the war.

To my mind he can say anything he blo0dy well pleases. That's his right. And he earned it.

And you are all ready for more fratricidal war!!! Hurrah!!!"!