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LTD KATHRYN HOUSE, MANOR WAY, RAINHAM, ESSEX, RM13 8RE WWW.RAINHAMSTEEL.CO.UK V4 ViSIOn BrentwoodOngar edition40 | to advertise call 01277 554045 TEL 01708 522311 FAX 01708Vi SIO559024n [email protected] edition40 | to advertise call 01277 554045 V5 e may have not been the favoured choice, but reserve judgement on this occasion, as new Prime Minister HBoris Johnson may just be this country’s saving grace. Given that our political system has respect of what little democracy we have always existed while stuffed clumsily in left, a second referendum, however it was the pocket of the ultimate organisational being dressed up, was never an option. irony – that we are governed by a set-up We are at a stage now where we need of MPs whose very being means acting in to put political allegiances aside and just opposition to one another – it’s a miracle get on with leaving the EU on October 31 we’ve made it this far. in the most clinical way possible, and as Sure, over the centuries, the Houses BoJo has proved several times already in of Parliament appear to have bumbled, his career, he is a leader, a motivator and burst and bludgeoned their way through a driving force for positive, unerring, often Sweeps clean a variety of issues, but there is a sense brazen action. that never before have a collected band of Whether Boris will make a good Prime representatives been so unapologetically Minister should, at this point, be seen unhelpful towards each other, whilst as secondary to the real job in hand, displaying such plain disregard for those although even on that front, his merciless, who put them there in the first place – the almost dramatic dressing down of Corbyn electorate. in his first House of Commons debate at We’ve been left in a parlous state, where least shows a glimpse of a political future even some of the most ardent Leave or where humour, drama and liberal dashes Remain campaigners have had the last of sarcasm may replace an overstayed bit of political puff forced out of them by period of shouting, shuffling, sneering and NEW BORIS BORIS NEW a string of events that has dragged on downright childish gameplay from those longer than the annual trot around the who should know better. Eurovision juries. As yes, 55-year-old Boris may well And yet, now, it may be that finally our still represent a cumbersome orator very own ‘Euro vision’ is forming, and from another era, but during his time as thank goodness we have someone like London Mayor – and all those Boris bikes Boris Johnson to drag it up on stage, – as columnist and magazine editor, and stand it in front of the microphone and as Foreign Secretary, he made very real cover its ears as the rest of the continent change happen. The man is no fool. offers a resounding ‘nul points’ to its little Ultimately, what you get with Boris ditty. Johnson is charisma, action, and In reality, Boris is the best we have. perhaps a little entertainment thrown in Theresa May’s position was a poisoned for good measure. Sure, he will speak out chalice from the start, Jeremy Hunt you of turn, he will wobble precariously on the feel would have simply toed the same line of acceptability, but he will also put drab, pointlessly formal line, and Jeremy both barrels behind the country he loves, Corbyn has taken three years to finally even at risk of throwing himself under the decide he’s a Remainer. And for the bus… or is it a bike? V6 ViSIOn BrentwoodOngar edition40 | to advertise call 01277 554045 James Veysey/Shutterstock Photo credit: ViSIOn BrentwoodOngar edition40 | to advertise call 01277 554045 V7 V HISTORY Sssssilent or 60 years Marcel Marceau’sHERO talent for pantomime entertained audiences around the world. He was also the man whose act inspired Michael Jackson’s famous moonwalk. But few of his adoring Ffans realised that behind the mask of his most famous character, chalk-faced Bip the clown, there was a true hero. During the Second World War he saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust. Masquerading as a boy scout, Marcel evacuated a Jewish orphanage in eastern France. He told the children he was taking them on a vacation in the Alps, and led them to safety in Switzerland. Marcel made the perilous journey three times, saving hundreds of Jewish orphans. He was able to avoid detection by entertaining the children with silent pantomime. Born to a Jewish family in Strasbourg, France in 1923, young Marcel Mangel discovered Charlie Chaplin at the age of five and became an avid fan. When Marcel was 16, the Nazis marched into France, and the Jews of Strasbourg - near the German border - had to flee. Marcel changed his last name to Marceau to avoid being identified as Jewish, and joined the French Resistance movement. Documentary filmmaker, Phillipe Mora, whose father fought alongside Marcel in the French Resistance, said: “Marceau started miming to keep children quiet as they were escaping. 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