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The New HOt AIr cannon to be fitted to Thames Barges will be manned by Lady Marine Cadets or that oxymoron of the Ministry of Defense, the Green Beret wearing Army Intelligence Crop.
Orders have been placed by Forces Procurement Officers in THE  strip club(sshhh) in Soho for oars(?), pullers and bits of string to stop the tide washing the Fleet out to the dumping grounds in Bodensee.

Military Educationalists are busy implementing orders that all RM veterans who use English to describe non-indigenous gangsters other than Wonderful Ethnic Tanned Savants should be beaten up (or at least attempted to be beaten up) for sticking up for historical truths.

In that line of historical correctness, please note that the Gun is being used against the Zulus and the propellant is still in storage in Greenwich.  No animals were hurt during the commissioning of this drawing.  The Fleet painter is currently taking a former Lieber Minister out to a Russian Oligarchs yacht (HMS QE) at anchor in the Clyde, Mersey, Tamar and Tyne.  Now that will confuse everyone except Trained Soldiers . Splice the Main Brace... Does anyone know someone who builds ships- that float- and aircraft -that can fly...

St George

Saint George (c. 275/281 – 23 April 303 AD) was a Greek who became an officer in the Roman army. His father was the Greek Gerondios from Cappadocia Asia Minor and his mother was from the city Lydda. Lydda was a Greek city in Palestine from the times of the conquest of Alexander the Great (333 BC). Saint George became an officer in the Roman army in the Guard of Diocletian. He is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography, Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic (Western and Eastern Rites), Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox churches. He is immortalized in the tale of Saint George and the Dragon and is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. His memorial is celebrated on 23 April, and he is regarded as one of the most prominent military saints.

Many Patronages of Saint George exist around the world, including: Georgia, England, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq,Israel, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha,Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Lebanon, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv,Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria, as well as of the Scout Movement^[3] and a wide range of professions, organizations and disease sufferers.

What, on appearance looks like a fair reflection of history on England's Patron Saint, falls down on immediate inspection because the writer does not have the courage to treat the reader as intelligent. To write that Lydda was a Greek city in Palestine is to rewrite history.  Palestine did not exist at this time so why not place Lydda in the country of the day? Judea perhaps?

Memories of Africa

Every now and then I have an Old Person's moment.  And as I haven't filled my trousers this morning, I'm having it this way.

Wisdom of our Politicians?

This reply to a question by a Councillor in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which could be redirected at every politician in Britain.

As we are told to expect another 3 MILLION people in the next few years, not a single British politician has had the courage to say, "Stop!  We are a tiny Island with limited resources and less space.  We have no surplus of water, as we suffer annually from localised droughts which therefore means we cannot manage the human effluence with all the ensuing health implications."  

"There is no space to build the estimated 3 million houses to accommodate the influx and we shall soon be importing all our fuel needs as the electricity generators are demolished through 'Old Age'."  

"We cannot extract gas because of the NIMBYs!  We cannot store gas for the same reason."

We are rushing head first into disaster and our politicians behave and talk like Bantu story-tellers.

In these tiny islands we have an estimated 400 years of coal beneath our feet, yet Labour instigated contracts to purchase coal from countries like Poland and spent not a penny on research to convert local fuel into low carbon burning liquid, as Germany did during the War and as South Africa does to provide a small percentage of its needs.  Research and development has no place in Labour's vocabulary or future intentions.

Letter from America

When I was a kid, I couldn't understand why Eisenhower was so popular. Maybe this will explain why. General Eisenhower Warned Us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead. He did this because he said in words, to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history  some bastard will get up and say that this never happened' This week, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet.. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it. It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while many in the world looked the other way! Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people! Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Centre  'NEVER HAPPENED',  because it offends someone??? FREEDOM ISN'T FREE...SOMEONE HAD TO  PAY FOR IT!

Balls on the rack, definitely...

Caller on Radio Programme blows Balls out of his dreamworld. (click to listen) Not Ronnie O'Sullivan.  Worth reminding the public how Labour cannot grasp simple concepts of honesty and factuality.

Ball, you and Clown ruined the economy, robbed pensions blind, invested only in immigrants and workshy, laid the ground for the Mass rapist of the Congo to be given sanctuary and succour on these spectred Isles whilst Labour pillage pensions.
Just listen.

NPower dipping bikkies in coffee?

Dear , Is Npower the new Starbucks? At the same time as hiking our energy bills, Npower are using accounting tricks to dodge paying their fair share of tax in the UK. Yesterday it was revealed that they haven't paid a single penny in corporation tax for the last three years! [1] But now this is out in the open, Npower are vulnerable. Just look what a PR disaster it was for Starbucks when their tax affairs were exposed last year. Tax dodging scandals can ruin a company's reputation. And that can cost them their customers. [2] Npower rely on their customer loyalty. If they realise that their tax scams are damaging their reputation, they'll have to back down. So let’s make them feel the strength of public opposition by building a HUGE petition warning them that their customers are ready to leave them. Please click here to sign: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/npower-tax A huge petition can help turn this tax dodge into a full-on PR crisis for Npower. It'll help spread the word and raise awareness of what they're up to. And it'll encourage the media to keep reporting on this scam. That's exactly what Npower's PR team don't want to happen! After Starbucks' tax scams came out, customers crossed the street to buy coffee from another cafe. Npower will already know that they’re at risk from customers switching gas and electricity providers. It’s not like it’s that difficult to switch - we proved that last year, when thousands of us switched together to get a better deal. [3] The news of yet another huge company like Npower dodging tax stinks, and not just because it comes at a time when our gas and electricity bills are going through the roof. By dodging tax, Npower are actively contributing to the UK’s deficit - and to the stinging impact of government cuts. Let’s force Npower to stop using accounting tricks to dodge their fair share of tax . Sign the petition to Npower now: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/npower-tax Thanks for being involved, James, Becky, Susannah and the 38 Degrees team PS: NPower’s accounting scam works like this: they are turning UK operating profits into accounting and tax losses by making large "interest payments" to other parts of their own business, based overseas. This is currently legal - and in the longer term, we need to push the government to close this blatant loophole. But right now we have a chance to force Npower to drop this scam - so please sign the petition now: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/npower-tax NOTES [1] The Sun - Energy giant pays zero tax: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4891267/Energy-giant-Npower-pays-zero-corporation-tax.html [2] The Economist: Wake up and smell the coffee: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21568432-starbuckss-tax-troubles-are-sign-things-come-multinationals-wake-up-and-smell [3] Read more about the Big Switch on the 38 Degrees website here: http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2012/05/11/bigswitchresult/ For all electricity users.  Npower charge 14.85p p/kWh plus 5% VAT.  For Super 7 users they charge 5.94p p/kWh plus 5% VAT. PLUS a new charge of £64 97 pa just for buying your electricity from them.  It's like paying for Sky just because your near neighbour has a satellite dish on their outside wall.  Get punters to pay up front and everything else is profit!?!?  This is going back to the horrendous nationalisation days where the only option a customer really gets is NONE.  The industry has stitched up being able to move by imposing dubious clauses in the contracts that cannot be legally equitable, hence not contractible.

Labour's original British Jobs for British workers

James Callaghan

Labour, 1976 - 1979

Callaghan inherited the office of prime minister following the surprise resignation of Harold Wilson. With only a tiny parliamentary majority to support him, he faced an increasingly one-sided confrontation with organised labour in the form of rampant strike action. Things came to a head in the so-called 'Winter of Discontent', a phrase from Shakespeare borrowed by Callaghan himself to describe the events leading up to February 1979. Britain was 'strikebound', with public servants staging mass walk outs, leaving food and fuel supplies undelivered, rubbish uncollected and - most notoriously - bodies unburied. Things became so bad in Hull it was dubbed 'the second Stalingrad'. The tabloid press has since been accused of overstating the severity of the situation (and wrongly quoting him as saying 'Crisis? What Crisis?') but it was enough at the time to sound the death knell for Callaghan's government later in the same year.

For those with a selective choice for memory, this is an extract from the pro-left BBC archives.  Being so brief it did not mention the absurd Poland Britain Coal Pact which saw Polish coal being Imported into these Islands floating on the stuff, in ships that had to be built in Polish shipyards by a LABOUR Force desperate to throw off the yoke of Communism through Solidarity.  Island where manufactured goods - especially from British Leyland - clogged up hectares of parking space as nothing more than newly manufactured scrap.  No-one wanted British cars and no-one was buying them, NOT EVEN THE BRITISH.
So Harold Wilson and hence Lord Jim lay the seeds for industrial decay by doing what Labour does best, ignoring the problems at home an glorifying in solving problems elsewhere.  A ridiculous concept as doomed to failure as Communism itself.  Importing cheap labour whilst there was money available for modernisation of core industries lies squarely with the Luddites of the Unions.  Accept it, it is a fact.  What is the use of producing something that you can't sell? ?  ?  ?

Don't ask a teacher about these truths.  Ask those of us who got of our arses and travelled the world trying to earn an honest living, and who have not yet succumbed to dementia as most Labour supporters appear to be born with.

So when I hear Scottish former miners castigate and berating Margaret Thatcher, it certainly was not Margaret that signed the treaties that undermined - excuse the pun - the coal workers, I have to ask them were they awake when Labour was filling the pockets of the Arthur Scargill's whilst ordinary miners families were being promised Utopia on the Coal Face?  My grandfather was a miner with a good Catholic education.  That meant the only thing he could do was swing a pick, genuflect to priests and beat up his wife.  Not great credentials to pass on to the next generation.

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Baroness Thatcher funeral Order

ROYAL MARINES ASSOCIATION

REPORTING NETWORK SUPPLEMENTAL

 

 

 

ARMED FORCES’ ROLE IN THE FUNERAL OF LADY THATCHER

 

The Ministry of Defence has announced details of the Armed Forces’ involvement in the Funeral of The Rt Hon The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven LG OM PC FRS, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.

 

The Funeral will take place on Wednesday 17 April at St Paul’s Cathedral, involving more than 700 Armed Forces personnel. The Coffin will be drawn on a Gun Carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery from St Clement Danes Church (the church of the Royal Air Force) in the Strand to St Paul’s, with the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force lining the route. Outside the Cathedral a Guard of Honour and Band of 1^st Battalion Welsh Guards will be formed up. While the Ceremonial Procession takes place, the Honourable Artillery Company will fire Processional Minute Guns from Tower Wharf, HM Tower of London.

 

Carrying the Coffin of Lady Thatcher into the Cathedral will be a Bearer Party made up of all three Services, including those from ships, units and stations notable for their service during the Falklands Campaign. Positioned on the steps will be a Step Lining party made up of 18 tri-Service personnel and a contingent of In-Pensioners of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Senior military representatives will attend the service.

 

The military elements involved in the Funeral are:

  

Ceremonial Gun Carriage

 

After the Coffin has been moved to St Clement Danes Church from the Palace of Westminster, it will be borne in Procession to St Paul’s Cathedral on a Gun Carriage of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery. The Gun Carriage will be drawn by six horses (three of which are mounted), with a Sergeant riding alongside, an Officer riding in front and three dismounted troops on foot.

 

Processional Band

 

A Band of HM Royal Marines will take part in the Procession from St Clement Danes Church to St Paul’s Cathedral.

 

Bearer Party

 

The Bearer Party will walk alongside the Coffin in the Procession to the Cathedral, consisting of 10 tri-Service personnel. Members will be taken from:

 

-        Royal Navy/Royal Marines;

-        Scots Guards;

-        Welsh Guards;

-        Royal Artillery;

-        Royal Engineers;

-        Parachute Regiment;

-        Royal Gurkha Rifles; and

-        the Royal Air Force.

 

Where possible, personnel will be chosen from ships, units and stations connected to those who served during the Falklands Campaign. They will be supported by one Army Officer and a Warrant Officer.

 

Street Lining of the Processional Route

 

The Processional Route will be from St Clement Danes Church to St Paul’s Cathedral. Lining the route will be personnel from:

 

-        Royal Navy and Royal Marines;

-        F Company Scots Guards;

-        1^st Battalion Welsh Guards; and

-        Royal Air Force.

 

Bands in support of the Street Liners

 

Bands from all three Services will be positioned alongside the Street Liners on the processional route. These will be:

 

-     A Band of the Royal Marines;

-     The Band of the Scots Guards of the Household Division; and

-     A Band of the Royal Air Force.

 

Guard of Honour

 

Outside St Paul’s Cathedral a Guard of Honour of 1^st Battalion Welsh Guards, together with the Welsh Guards Band, will be mounted for the arrival of the Coffin.

 

Step Lining outside St Paul’s Cathedral for the arrival of the Coffin

 

A Step Lining Party, comprising 18 Service personnel (six Royal Navy/Royal Marines, six members of the Blues and Royals, Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, and six Royal Air Force) plus In-Pensioners of the Royal Hospital Chelsea will line the steps of St Paul’s for the arrival of the Coffin.

 

Processional Minute Guns

 

While the Procession to St Paul’s Cathedral takes place, the Honourable Artillery Company will fire Processional Minute Guns from Tower Wharf, HM Tower of London.

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In accordance with Lady Thatcher’s wishes, a flypast will not take place.

 

For further information on the military involvement contact the Ministry of Defence Press Office (020 7218 7907).