Modern Britain: A Land Fit for Heroes – Or Have We Lost Our Way?
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Modern Britain: A Land Fit for Heroes – Or Have We Lost Our Way? 🇬🇧
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As we commemorate VE Day, Jon Gaunt asks: Was it all worth it? Did our WW2 heroes fight and die for this version of modern Britain?
They dreamed of a “land fit for heroes” – but has it become a land obsessed with celebrity, consumerism, and self-interest?
What happened to British pride, community, and responsibility?
🗨️ As Oscar Wilde said: “We know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Would today’s generation be willing to fight for the future like they did?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the John Gaunt Show tonight. |
| 0:04.9 | Something slightly different. |
| 0:06.6 | Modern Britain. |
| 0:08.6 | Is it really a land fit for our heroes? |
| 0:12.4 | Or have we lost our way? |
| 0:14.7 | Celebrating, obviously, victory in Europe Day this week. |
| 0:18.1 | Magnificent yesterday in London. But is this a land fit for heroes? And if it isn't, |
| 0:25.9 | where have we gone wrong? I think we're too madly into consumerism. I think the old Oscar Wild |
| 0:32.0 | quote, which is, we know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. So I'm asking a question today, |
| 0:41.4 | have we lost our way? And I want your opinion. And would today's generation be willing to |
| 0:49.4 | fight for the future like our heroes did. |
| 0:55.3 | Was it all worth it? |
| 0:57.8 | What's your opinion? |
| 1:00.3 | And I want it now, please. |
| 1:02.1 | This is a wide-ranging one. |
| 1:04.2 | This is not just picking on certain politicians. |
| 1:07.5 | It's about us having a philosophical look at what's wrong with modern Britain. |
| 1:13.2 | I don't think people would necessarily fight anymore. |
| 1:17.3 | I certainly don't think they'd go into a war where they thought the chances were they |
| 1:22.2 | weren't going to come back, which was what happened, especially in the First World War. |
| 1:26.9 | And in the Second World War, and in the Second World War, |
| 1:28.6 | where communication was even better, they must have known that. Not just the guys who went up |
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