One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant - Leo Amery, a polymath and conservative member of Parliament.
In two iconic moments of outrage against the Chamberlain government's temporizing, Amery galvanized Britain and helped end the government's disastrous policies.
Immediately Amery interrupted, shouting out, "Speak for England, Arthur!" He was met with overwhelming applause and soon public acclamation.
Amery, a shocked Greenwood, and others had finally had enough of the partisan nonsense, and demanded the nation unite against Nazi Germany.
On a second iconic occasion on May 7, 1940, Amery voiced even stronger views - again, widely held by the public, but rarely voiced by the timid political class.
Amery responded with a blistering attack on the incompetence of the conservative Chamberlain administration by quoting Oliver Cromwell's hallmark 1653 order to the Long Parliament: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go." Three days later after Amery's speech and the invasion of France, an ill Chamberlain and most of his advisors resigned.
Somewhere out there an American Leo Amery is growing infuriated over what is being done to America.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/10/victor-davis-hanson-who-will-say-no-more-to-the-current-madness/
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