Ah, well, that’s it over for another few months.
Poppymas seems to come earlier every year with the compulsory empire rosette in every Brit TV studio.
This year, the now dearly departed Home Secretary Cruella Braverman did a bit of whipping up.
She suggested in an incendiary piece in the Times that the police in London were “playing favourites” with demonstrators.
Compliments to the Photoshop person.
She probably got what she wanted this morning when Sunak sacked her.
Braverman has now positioned herself to win the next Tory leadership race.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a day out for the British far right without the Rainjurzz being represented.
This is from the Guardian’s Mark Townsend.
You can read about that shitshow here.
If you want to do a deep dive into how the war dead of the British Empire has been weaponised, then Poppy Watch are good people.
They provided the featured image for this piece.
Apparently, it was snapped in a pub in Bradford.
Good grief.
The fetishisation of the Remembrance shtick by the Ibrox klanbase hasn’t escaped their attention.
It’s worth noting that the armed forces are paid for through the tax take.
Awkward.
Debts we forget.
I was glad that Celtic eschewed the wearing of that military emblem on their shirts yesterday.
No harm to the Dons, but Singapore put up a better defence!
When the Royal British Legion Poppy was launched over a century ago, Britain was the preeminent power in the world, a genuine global superpower.
Now?
Well, in this century, they’ve fought two wars and been defeated in both of them.
In September 2008, the Mahdi Army evicted them from Basra and in Helmand Province, the USA had to deploy substantial forces to prevent another rout.
This book, by a military whistleblower, shreds the myth of British military competence in the 21st century.
Of course, the central point of this maudlin shite is the performance art at the Cenotaph, and the Saxe Coburg Gotha crime crew is front and centre.
Including this guy.
Molest we forget.
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Here in the Sassenach State, I attempted to remind people that there remains a credible alternative in the form of the White Poppy ,since it represents ALL victims of War, but it generally only leads to a look of bemusement & occasionally ,a look that Medusa would be proud of. Even got called a “Traitor”, but once I inform them I wasn’t a Loyalist/Royalist to begin with ,it just leads to further bemusement & anger. Telling them your a Celtic fan in an English Mancunian accent just completely f*cks with their heads!
As a Mancunian of Irish Catholic heritage, I’m just an actor in the wrong movie in the Sassenach State when it comes to Politics & general staunchness. I’m Politically “Homeless” here.
On a more positive note, at least the Sassenach State was more “on point” with the Pro Palestine march over the weekend with a hugely impressive turn-out.
Despite the best attempts of Tommy Robinson’s reprobates to besmirch the genuine march ,the Pro Palestine message was sent out unequivocally to Westminster & its out of touch politicians.
I wonder if Tommy’s Terrors would be as quick to “defend” a Crimes of Empire Monument, if such a thing existed in the UK?
Tiocfaidh ar la Palestina.
A latter day ‘Thatcher the Milk-Snatcher’, the outgoing Home Secretary must surely be remembered as Suella – scourge of the tent-dweller’…..
The only leadership election Suella is likely to win would be for the Likud Party , even amongst the majority of Tories she is now seen for what she is , a toxic troublemaker . The sheer lack of credible talent left on the Tory back benches was evident when the unelected PM first sent Cameron to the unelected House of Lords in order to make him Foreign Secretary without having been elected and officially signed sealed and delivered by the Royal assent of the unelected King. My favourite quotes on patriotism are Wilde’s “Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious” and Samuel Johnson’s “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” both seem to sum up our poppy fetishists and flag shaggers to a T
“Molest we forget”!
Ooft!!
There was a planned pro-Palestine action in Glasgow on Saturday at 12, an hour after the two minute silence. The venue had to be changed however when a group of people dressed in Rangers supporters gear approached the group in a threatening manner. As a result the location of the die-in was changed so they couldn’t disrupt it. In London the racists dress in St George’s crosses etc but in Glasgow the put on Rangers scarves. Free Palestine!
Which poppy is for the brave Huns that hid in the govan shipyard
That would be the Yellow poppy of the King’s Own Deserters.