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I’ve just shown this community to my father who was a Londoner (evacuated) during the war years. In the spirit of the responses here he’d like to point out.

“You youngsters don’t know how lucky you are we had to cope with tea rationing!!!”

You do your worst – and we will do our best.

I lived in London for four years during the height of the IRA bombing campaign and I once found a suspect device on a tube train and had to pull the Emergency lever to halt the train so I know how Londoners feel at the moment.

As Churchill said

“…We ask no favours of the enemy. We seek from them no compunction.
On the contrary, if tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry,

“No, we will mete out to them the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us.”

The people with one voice would say:

“You have committed every crime under the sun.
Where you have been the least resisted there you have been the most brutal.
It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing.
We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will.

You do your worst – and we will do our best.

Perhaps it may be our turn soon; perhaps it may be our turn now…”