Most normal folks would agree that the idea of tanks on the streets of a city is usually a bad sign.
Budapest 56, Prague 68.
You get the idea.
Not so for the Ibrox klanbase.
They appear to suffer from a militaristic fetish to such an extent that it must be seen to be disbelieved.
Of course, the current entity operating out of Ibrox feeds that craving for the means of mass slaughter.
Such a unique matchday experience…
The far-right of British politics seems to have an ugly fascination with tanks in particular.
Sadly, that includes the current government.
Here is mine from August of this year.
Dear reader, British tanks in Glasgow does not have a good history.
Here is a piece of mine in An Phoblacht from 2013, looking back at the events in the city in 1919 when Winston Churchill deployed thousands of troops and tanks to re-impose order.
There is no doubt that the racist who sent the Tans into Ireland a year later would have readily deployed the tracked monsters if the demonstrations in Glasgow had continued.
I doubt if any of this ersatz armoured corps will know anything of this as that would take reading and learning.
That isn’t something I readily associate with the Ibrox klanbase.
I do hope that the Sevco Panzer Divison does a bit better with that pretend war machine than the British Army’s has with their latest armoured acquisition.
Read here about the hilarious Ajax fighting vehicle.
Be the best?
Finally, here is what a REAL British soldier thinks about the annual Poppy wank fest.
Lest we forget.
Thankfully the klan’s Poppy Porn festival is over for another year.
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When i was a boy, i used to accompany my Granda to the Cenotaph in George’s Square every year.
At 6ft 5in, done up in his best including Homberg, together with all his medals, he was a very imposing figure despite his age. I would stand proudly beside him, he was the light of my life, and after all these years ,i still miss him ,and love him. He would stand there ,the tears running down his face. I was only a boy and didn’t understand. Here was this colossus of a man reduced to this ,and whats more ,every year. It wasn’t until i was about 16, years later, i managed to draw him out.
He had come from a well to do family had five brothers and was privately educated.
He fell foul of his father and ran away and joined the Army.He served In India ,the Far East,and other parts of the empire.
Then WW!, as a then reservist , he was called up and went over with the B.E.F. he fought all through the war,he received his third wound in August 1918,which sent him home.”A Blighty One” ,
Two of his brothers joined his unit during the war ,his youngest brother James was shot , going over the top at the Somme ,my Granda held him as he died in his arms. An officer held a pistol to his head and ordered him to leave James. He didn’t, he was subsequently reduced in the ranks from Sargent Major to Private. He only escaped court martial because of his “previous good conduct and service,” .
The Poppy was a symbol of sacrifice first and foremost ,nothing glorious about it for his generation. he detested the glorification of war in all its forms. He absolutely loathed churchill ,who he always referred to as “that murdering warmongering bstrd”. He protested at the opening of the Cenotaph by general haig , he was in fact arrested on the day.
One of the very last things he said to me was ” if the bastrds come for you ,DONT GO “.He was 87.
That was what the poppy symbolised to these men. If you look at how base it is now, at the hands of these ignorant scummy bstrd’s, it couldn’t be further removed from its intended purpose.
By way of contrast , my paternal Granda was in the IRA, took part in the Easter Rebellion , eventually blowing his way out of Dundalk Prison.Then away to the continent.
He eventually reached Glasgow ,where he settled,working ironically enough, as a demolition miner in Tunnockside. It was fkn interesting when these two got together. I love and respect them both in equal measure , both real men.
This whole degenerate loyalist shit show smells of fear, fear that the world they know is turning like the proverbial worm and there is nothing they can do. Everything in their racist drum banging calendar is changing, they are powerless, they know it and all they are going to have shortly is a poppy day to hijack over and over to show their staunch stupidity and their unwavering Britishness.
An observation about these spawn of Struth’s Shipyard Commandos is that for all the social media there is relating to Glasgow and its history which is documented, boasted about, and revered, you don’t see many of their fearless fighting shipyard shitebags.
It now makes me wonder when he late Captain Tom’s memory will be purloined by these spineless chancers.
Here is a more apt little picture that sums them up during their heroic bosh flogging and world saving.
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A quite brilliant film clip Phil. An old, long dead uncle, one of the first British commandos once told me ANYONE who glorifies war has either never been in one or is completely insane. Thirty years later he could still wake up in the middle of the night and smell death.
What Irish regiments fought at the Somme?
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The sole Irish unit involved was 2nd Bn The Royal Irish Regiment (18th of Foot) in 22nd Brigade of the 7th Division, at Mametz. Although the part played by the 36th (Ulster) Division in the Somme battles was over, there was still much to do for Inniskilling, Rifles and Faugh battalions.
The poppy was traditionally a remembrance symbol of people who had made the ultimate sacrifice during two global conflicts imo.
What we are being subjected to is a right wing hijack and blatant militarism.
Maybe we need a new symbol; 4 blood red petals and a black centre. There’ll be a white circle justified next. What does that remind you of?
Very informative and well presented youtube clip. What is it with the klan that encourages them to revel in war and destruction ? I have never woken up and thought to myself, today would be a great day to wade knee deep in anyone’s blood . Remembrance Sunday to these people isn’t about remembering the horrors of war but glorifying in triumphalism . How low is their self esteem ?
Phil, don’t lower yourself with the W fest statement, died owing 276 creditors and now owing over £80 million tramps
Trying to compensate for their grandfathers and great grandfathers hiding in the shipyards, just tell them to go read the history of the 16th Irish Division.