I am disgusted and surprised by Gary's attitude to Royalty, namely King George VI, father of the then current Queen Elizabeth II. No one was claiming that the King, known privately as Bertie, was any sort of God, but he was the Lord's Anointed, a Symbol of the Realm of England since the Conquest. Some moan that the current Monarch is of no use, a Rubber Stamp, but that is not by choice, and the last King that tried to act on his own and exert his God-given Authority (Charles I), they chopped his head off. If things went wrong in Britain, like crime and poverty, that was the doing of the politicians and the political parties that came out at the end of the Seventeenth Century. Gary would complain about the crime, unemployment and other issues of the 1990s, as would we all who lived through them, then he returns to time where people were far more decent - they may have had war and spivs and traitors then, but they were not riddled with teenage mothers deserted by their boyfriends, high school shootings on a large scale, or pornography and decadence, which Gary seems to be in favour of. He was trying to force stupid 1990s values on a far more noble age. The concept of this show was great, but his attitude sucked, for if he had bothered to do his research, or at least been a bit more sensitive, he would have understood how the generation of his grandparents felt - so should we, lest we all forget. This is the generation that honoured a King who curtailed his own older brother's sneaking admiration for Crazy Uncle Adolf, sending him off out of the way, so he would not get into mischief, and he and his Queen, Elizabeth, stood firm against the Fascist Invader, and went on to defeat them. In the end, one guesses he could believe what he likes, but in Wartime Britian, a Slip of the Lip could end up in a Fat Lip.
