The recent incident of a mother being followed home by an off-duty police officer who saw the mother chastise her children in a shop, a follow up visit by other on-duty officers to question the mother about the incident and the subsequent letter from the local council informing the mother that her brush with the law has now been recorded on council records where it will remain for the next fourteen years serves as a reminder of what a sorry state our police force is now in.

Just for a moment, try – if you can – and remember the police force how they used to be. For those of you under the age of fortyish, our police were once a tremendously well-respected organisation both at home and abroad. We used to take pride in our police force and how they were the “envy of the world”. As a people we could rely on the police force to use common sense and discretion and to be on the side of the public at all times. Criminals feared the police and the public loved them for it.

Forty years of remorseless progressive liberalism later and the modern “police service” is a discredited and disliked organisation held in contempt by both criminals and the public alike. The police are ineffectual in dealing with criminal behaviour and, as a consequence of their own recognition that they are so ineffectual, the police take that out on the soft targets of the law-abiding public. The police despise the public and the public despise the police.

The sort of behaviour we now see from our police “services” is similar to that we once used to sneer at in banana republics which always seemed to be on the verge of revolution. We used to think “that could never happen here”.

Well it could and it has.

Article re-produced from Ranting Stan.

AS OF THIS WEEKEND 223 BRITISH SOLDIERS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN AFGANISTAN SINCE 2001
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Let’s not forget that FREEDOM is not free….

Thinking  of all the British Soldiers

A  Prayer chain for our Military… Don’t break  it!

GOD  BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON!


THE  FINAL INSPECTION

The soldier stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.
‘Step forward now, you  soldier,
How shall I deal with you ?
Have you always turned the other cheek ?
To My Church have you been true?’
The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
‘No, Lord, I guess I ain’t.
Because those of us who carry  guns,
Can’t always be a saint.
I’ve had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough.
And sometimes I’ve been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny,
That wasn’t mine to keep…
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
When the bills got just too steep.
And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear.
And sometimes, God, forgive me,
I’ve wept unmanly tears.
I know I don’t deserve a place,
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around,
Except to calm their fears.
If you’ve a place for me here, Lord,
It needn’t be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don’t, I’ll understand.
There was a silence all  around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod.
As the soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
‘Step forward  now, you soldier,
You’ve borne your burdens  well..
Walk peacefully on Heaven’s  streets,
You’ve done your time in Hell.’

Author Unknown

It’s the Military, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the Press.

It’s the Military, not the poet who has given us the freedom of speech.

It’s the Military, not the politicians that ensures our right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

It’s the Military, that salutes the flag, that serves beneath it, who’s coffins are draped by it.
If you  care to offer the smallest token of recognition  and appreciation for the Military, please  pass this on and pray for our men and women who have served and are currently serving our country and pray for those who have given the  ultimate sacrifice for freedom.

Operations in Afghanistan: British Fatalities

It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the following fatalities suffered during operations in Afghanistan.

As at 8 November 2009, a total of 232 British forces personnel or MOD civilians have died while serving in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001.

Of these, 201 were killed as a result of hostile action.

31 are known to have died either as a result of illness, non-combat injuries or accidents, or have not yet officially been assigned a cause of death pending the outcome of an investigation. The balance of these figures may change as inquests are concluded.

A more detailed breakdown of fatalities and casualties can be foundhere.

• Serjeant Phillip Scott, 3rd Battalion The Rifles, aged 30, from Malton

• Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, aged 40 from Walthamstow
• Sergeant Matthew Telford, 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, aged 37 from Grimsby
• Guardsman James Major, 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, aged 18 from Grimsby
• Corporal Steven Boote, Royal Military Police, aged 22 from Birkenhead, Liverpool
• Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, Royal Military Police, aged 24 from Glangwilli

• Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean George Schmid, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 30 from Truro

• Corporal Thomas ‘Tam’ Mason, The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS), aged 27 from Rosyth

• Corporal James Oakland, Royal Military Police, aged 26 from Manchester

• Lance Corporal James Hill, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, aged 23 from Redhill in Surrey

• Guardsman Jamie Janes, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 20 from Brighton

• Acting Corporal Marcin Wojtak from 34 Squadron RAF Regiment, aged 24 from Leicester

• Private James Prosser from 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 21 from Cwmbran

• Acting Sergeant Michael Lockett MC from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, from Monifieth in Angus

• Acting Serjeant Stuart McGrath, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 28 from Buckinghamshire

• Trooper Brett Hall, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 21 from Dartmouth

• Kingsman Jason Dunn-Bridgeman, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, aged 20 from Liverpool

• Corporal John Harrison, The Parachute Regiment

• Private Gavin Elliott, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 19 from Woodsetts, Worksop, Nottinghamshire

• Lance Corporal Richard Brandon, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 24 from Kidderminster

• Sergeant Stuart ‘Gus’ Millar, The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 40 from Inverness
• Private Kevin Elliott, The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 24 from Dundee

• Sergeant Lee Andrew Houltram, Royal Marines

• Fusilier Shaun Bush, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 24 from Warwickshire

• Serjeant Paul McAleese, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 29 from Hereford
• Private Johnathon Young, 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of Wellington’s), aged 18 from Hull

• Lance Corporal James Fullarton, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 24 from Coventry
• Fusilier Simon Annis, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, from Salford
• Fusilier Louis Carter, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, from Nuneaton

• Sergeant Simon Valentine, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 29 from Bedworth

• Private Richard Hunt, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 21 from Abergavenny

• Captain Mark Hale, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 42 from Bournemouth
• Lance Bombardier Matthew Hatton, 40th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Lowland Gunners), aged 23 from Easingwold in North Yorkshire
• Rifleman Daniel Wild, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 19 from Hartlepool

• Private Jason George Williams, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 23 from Worcester

• Corporal Kevin Mulligan, The Parachute Regiment, aged 26
• Lance Corporal Dale Thomas Hopkins, The Parachute Regiment, aged 23
• Private Kyle Adams, The Parachute Regiment, aged 21

• Craftsman Anthony Lombardi, aged 21, from Scunthorpe

• Trooper Phillip Lawrence, Light Dragoons, aged 22 from Birkenhead

• Warrant Officer Class 2 Sean Upton, 5th Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 35 from Nottinghamshire

• Bombardier Craig Hopson, 40th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Lowland Gunners), aged 24 from Castleford

• Guardsman Christopher King, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, aged 20 from Birkenhead, near Liverpool

• Captain Daniel Shepherd, 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, aged 28 from Lincoln

• Corporal Joseph Etchells, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 22 from Mossley

• Rifleman Aminiasi Toge, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 26, from Suva, Fiji

• Corporal Jonathan Horne, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 28 from Walsall
• Rifleman William Aldridge, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18 from Bromyard in Herefordshire
• Rifleman James Backhouse, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18 from Castleford, Yorkshire
• Rifleman Joe Murphy, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18 from Castle Bromwich, Birmingham
• Rifleman Daniel Simpson, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 20 from Croydon

• Corporal Lee Scott, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 26 from Kings Lynn

• Private John Brackpool, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, aged 27 from Crawley, West Sussex

• Rifleman Daniel Hume, 4th Battalion The Rifles

• Trooper Christopher Whiteside, The Light Dragoons, aged 20 from Blackpool

• Captain Ben Babington-Browne, 22 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, aged 27 from Maidstone

• Lance Corporal Dane Elson, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, aged 22 from Bridgend

• Lance Corporal David Dennis, The Light Dragoons, aged 29 from Llanelli, Wales
• Private Robert Laws, 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment, aged 18 from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire

• Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe MBE, Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards
• Trooper Joshua Hammond, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 18

• Major Sean Birchall, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, aged 33

• Lieutenant Paul Mervis from 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 27, from London

• Private Robert McLaren from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 20, from the Isle of Mull

• Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher from 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 19, from Reading

• Lance Corporal Nigel Moffett, The Light Dragoons, aged 28 from Belfast
• Corporal Stephen Bolger, The Parachute Regiment

• Lance Corporal Kieron Hill, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters), aged 20 from Nottingham

• Lance Corporal Robert Martin Richards, Armoured Support Group Royal Marines, aged 24 from Betws-y-Coed, North Wales

• Sapper Jordan Rossi of 25 Field Squadron, 38 Engineer Regiment, aged 22 from West Yorkshire

• Fusilier Petero “Pat” Suesue, of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 28 from Fiji

• Marine Jason Mackie, Armoured Support Group Royal Marines, aged 21 from Bampton, Oxfordshire

• Lieutenant Mark Evison, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, aged 26

• Sergeant Ben Ross, 173 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment, Royal Military Police
• Corporal Kumar Pun, The 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles

• Rifleman Adrian Sheldon, 2 RIFLES, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield

• Corporal Sean Binnie, 3 SCOTS, aged 22

• Lance Sergeant Tobie Fasfous, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, aged 29

• Corporal Dean Thomas John, REME, aged 25 from Neath
• Corporal Graeme Stiff, REME, aged 24 from Münster, Germany

• Lance Corporal Christopher Harkett, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 22 from Swansea

• Marine Michael ‘Mick’ Laski, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 21 from Liverpool

• Corporal Tom Gaden, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 24 from Taunton
• Lance Corporal Paul Upton, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 31
• Rifleman Jamie Gunn, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 21 from Leamington Spa

• Lance Corporal Stephen ‘Schnoz’ Kingscott, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 22 from Plymouth

• Marine Darren ‘Daz’ Smith, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 27 from Fleetwood, Lancashire

• Corporal Daniel ‘Danny’ Nield, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 31 from Cheltenham

• Acting Corporal Richard ‘Robbo’ Robinson, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 21 from Cornwall

• Captain Tom Sawyer, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 26 from Hertfordshire
• Corporal Danny Winter, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 28 from Stockport

• Marine Travis Mackin, Communications Squadron, United Kingdom Landing Force Command Support Group (UKLFCSG), aged 22 from Plymouth

• Serjeant Chris Reed, 6th Battalion The Rifles, aged 25 from Plymouth

• Corporal Liam Elms RM, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 26 from Wigan

• Lance Corporal Benjamin Whatley, 42 Commando Royal Marines, aged 20 from King’s Lynn

• Corporal Robert Deering from the Commando Logistic Regiment Royal Marines, aged 33 from Solihull

• Rifleman Stuart Nash, 1st Battalion The Rifles, aged 21 from Sydney, Australia

• Lieutenant Aaron Lewis, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 26 from Essex

• Lance Corporal Steven ‘Jamie’ Fellows, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 28 from Sheffield

• Marine Damian Davies, aged 27,
• Sergeant John Manuel, aged 38 from North East England, and
• Corporal Marc Birch, aged 26 from Northampton

• Marine Tony Evans, aged 20 from Sunderland, and
• Marine Georgie Sparks, aged 19 from Epping

• Marine Alexander Lucas, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 24 from Edinburgh

• Colour Sergeant Krishnabahadur Dura, 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, aged 36, from the Lamjung district of western Nepal

• Marine Neil David Dunstan, aged 32, from Bournemouth, and
• Marine Robert Joseph McKibben, aged 32 from County Mayo

• Rifleman Yubraj Rai, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, aged 28, from Khotang district in eastern Nepal

• Trooper James Munday, aged 21, from the Birmingham area

• Lance Corporal Nicky Mason, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 26, from Aveley in Essex

• Private Jason Lee Rawstron, 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment aged 23 from Lancashire

• Warrant Officer Class 2 Gary ‘Gaz’ O’Donnell GM, 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment Royal Logistic Corps, aged 40, from Edinburgh

• Ranger Justin James Cupples, 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, aged 29 from County Cavan, Ireland

• Corporal Barry Dempsey, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 29 from Ayrshire

• Signaller Wayne Bland, 16 Signal Regiment, aged 21 from Leeds

• Private Peter Joe Cowton, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 25 from Basingstoke

• Sergeant Jonathan Mathews, The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 35 from Edinburgh

• Lance Corporal Kenneth Michael Rowe, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, aged 24 from Newcastle

• Corporal Jason Stuart Barnes, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 25 from Exeter

• Lance Corporal James Johnson, B Company, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland aged 31 from Scotland

• Warrant Officer 2nd Class Dan Shirley, Air Assault Support Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps, aged 32 from Leicester

• Warrant Officer 2nd Class Michael Norman Williams, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 40 from Cardiff
• Private Joe John Whittaker, 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 20 from Stratford Upon Avon

• Corporal Sarah Bryant, Intelligence Corps, aged 26 from Liverpool
• Corporal Sean Robert Reeve, Royal Signals, aged 28
• Lance Corporal Richard Larkin, aged 39, and
• Paul Stout, aged 31

• Lance Corporal James Bateman, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 29 from Staines, Middlesex, and
• Private Jeff Doherty, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 20 from Southam, Warwickshire

• Private Nathan Cuthbertson, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 19 from Sunderland,
• Private Daniel Gamble, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 22 from Uckfield, East Sussex, and
• Private Charles David Murray, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, aged 19 from Carlisle

• Marine Dale Gostick, 3 Troop Armoured Support Company, Royal Marines, aged 22 from Oxford

• James Thompson

• Trooper Ratu Sakeasi Babakobau, Household Cavalry Regiment, aged 29 from Fiji

• Trooper Robert Pearson, The Queen’s Royal Lancers Regiment, aged 22 from Grimsby

• Senior Aircraftman Graham Livingstone, Royal Air Force Regiment, aged 23 from Glasgow
• Senior Aircraftman Gary Thompson, Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment, aged 51 from Nottingham

• Lieutenant John Thornton, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 22 from Ferndown
• Marine David Marsh, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23 from Sheffield

• Corporal Damian Mulvihill, 40 Commando Royal Marines, aged 32 from Plymouth

• Corporal Damian Stephen Lawrence, 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), aged 25 from Whitby

• Corporal Darryl Gardiner, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 25 from Salisbury in Wiltshire

• Sergeant Lee Johnson, 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, aged 33 from Stockton-on-Tees

• Trooper Jack Sadler, The Honourable Artillery Company, aged 21 from Exeter

• Captain John McDermid, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 43 from Glasgow

• Lance Corporal Jake Alderton, 36 Engineer Regiment, aged 22 from Bexley

• Major Alexis Roberts, 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, aged 32 from Kent

• Colour Sergeant Phillip Newman, 4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 36 and
• Private Brian Tunnicliffe, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters), aged 33 from Ilkeston

• Corporal Ivano Violino from 36 Engineer Regiment, aged 29 from Salford

• Sergeant Craig Brelsford, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 25 from Nottingham, and
• Private Johan Botha, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, from South Africa

• Private Damian Wright, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 23 from Mansfield, and
• Private Ben Ford, 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, aged 18 from Chesterfield

• Senior Aircraftman Christopher Bridge from C flight, 51 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment, aged 20, from Sheffield

• Private Aaron James McClure, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 19 from Ipswich
• Private Robert Graham Foster, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 19 from Harlow
• Private John Thrumble, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 21 from Chelmsford

• Captain David Hicks of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 26 from Surrey

• Private Tony Rawson of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 27 from Dagenham, Essex

• Lance Corporal Michael Jones Royal Marines, aged 26 from Newbald, Yorkshire

• Sergeant Barry Keen of 14 Signal Regiment, aged 34 from Gateshead

• Guardsman David Atherton from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 25 from Manchester

• Lance Corporal Alex Hawkins, of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 22 from East Dereham, Norfolk

• Guardsman Daryl Hickey 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 27 from Birmingham

• Sergeant Dave Wilkinson, from 19 Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 33, from Ashford, Kent

• Captain Sean Dolan, of 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters, aged 40 from the West Midlands

• Drummer Thomas Wright, 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters, aged 21 from Ripley, Derbyshire

• Guardsman Neil ‘Tony’ Downes, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 20 from Manchester

• Lance Corporal Paul “Sandy” Sandford, 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters, aged 23, from Nottingham

• Corporal Mike Gilyeat, Royal Military Police, aged 28

• Corporal Darren Bonner, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 31 from Norfolk

• Guardsman Daniel Probyn, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 22 from Tipton

• Lance Corporal George Russell Davey, 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 23 from Suffolk

• Guardsman Simon Davison, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, aged 22 from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

• Private Chris Gray, A Company, 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, aged 19 from Leicestershire

• WO2 Michael ‘Mick’ Smith, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 39 from Liverpool

• Marine Benjamin Reddy, 42 Commando Royal Marines, aged 22 from Ascot in Berkshire

• Lance Bombardier Ross Clark aged 25 from South Africa, and Lance Bombardier Liam McLaughlin, aged 21 from Lancashire

• Marine Scott Summers, 42 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23 from Crawley, East Sussex

• Marine Jonathan Holland, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23 from Chorley in Lancashire

• Lance Corporal Mathew Ford, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 30 from Immingham, Lincolnshire

• Marine Thomas Curry, 42 Commando Royal Marines, aged 21 from East London

• Lance Bombardier James Dwyer, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 22

• Marine Richard J Watson, 42 Commando Royal Marines, aged 23 from Caterham, Surrey

• Marine Jonathan Wigley, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 21 from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

• Marine Gary Wright, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 22 from Glasgow

• Lance Corporal Paul Muirhead, 1 Royal Irish Regiment, aged 29 from Bearley, Warwickshire

• Lance Corporal Luke McCulloch, 1 Royal Irish Regiment, aged 21

• Corporal Mark William Wright, 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, aged 27 from Edinburgh

• Private Craig O’Donnell, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 24 from Clydebank

• Flight Lieutenant Steven Johnson, aged 38, from Collingham, Notts
• Flight Lieutenant Leigh Anthony Mitchelmore, aged 28 from Bournemouth
• Flight Lieutenant Gareth Rodney Nicholas, aged 40 from Redruth, Cornwall
• Flight Lieutenant Allan James Squires , aged 39, from Clatterbridge
• Flight Lieutenant Steven Swarbrick, aged 28, from Liverpool
• Flight Sergeant Gary Wayne Andrews, aged 48 from Tankerton in Kent
• Flight Sergeant Stephen Beattie, aged 42 from Dundee
• Flight Sergeant Gerard Martin Bell, aged 48, was from Ely, Cambridgeshire
• Flight Sergeant Adrian Davies, aged 49 from Amersham, Bucks
• Sergeant Benjamin James Knight aged 25 from Bridgwater
• Sergeant John Joseph Langton, aged 29 from Liverpool
• Sergeant Gary Paul Quilliam, aged 42 from Manchester
• Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts, the Parachute Regiment, aged 27
• Mne Joseph David Windall, Royal Marines, aged 22

• Ranger Anare Draiva, 1 Royal Irish Regiment, aged 27 from Fiji

• Lance Corporal Jonathan Peter Hetherington, 14 Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare), aged 22 from South Wales

• Corporal Bryan James Budd, 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, aged 29 from Ripon

• Lance Corporal Sean Tansey, The Life Guards, aged 26 from Washington, Tyne and Wear

• Private Leigh Reeves, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 25 from Leicester

• Private Andrew Barrie Cutts, Air Assault Support Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 19 from Mansfield

• Captain Alex Eida, Royal Horse Artillery, aged 29 from Surrey,
• Second Lieutenant Ralph Johnson, Household Cavalry Regiment, aged 24 from Windsor, and
• Lance Corporal Ross Nicholls, Blues and Royals, aged 27 from Edinburgh

• Private Damien Jackson, 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, aged 19 from South Shields, Tyne and Wear

• Corporal Peter Thorpe, Royal Signals, aged 27 from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, and
• Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi, Intelligence Corps, aged 24 from Birmingham

• Captain David Patton, the Parachute Regiment, aged 38, and
• Sergeant Paul Bartlett, Royal Marines, aged 35

• Captain Jim Philippson, 7 Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, aged 29 from St Albans in Hertfordshire

• Lance Corporal Peter Edward Craddock, 1st Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment, aged 31

• Corporal Mark Cridge, 7 Signal Regiment, aged 25

• Lance Corporal Steven Sherwood, 1st Battalion, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry, aged 23 from Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire

• Private Jonathan Kitulagoda, the Rifle Volunteers, aged 23 from Clifton, Bedfordshire

• Sergeant Robert Busuttil, and
• Corporal John Gregory both from the Royal Logistic Corps

• Private Darren John George, the Royal Anglian Regiment

Herself!

Today is November 9th. It was exactly a year ago that our dear friend Ramblin’ – aka BarnGoddess – wrote her last post. A good time to think of her.

Ramblin’ has had some lousy luck in this past year and Dickiebo and all his mates just want her to know that we miss her, and think of her often.

Five seconds later, I’m getting the upside of 15Kv across the nipples. (These ambulance guys sure know how to party).

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin – it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

I’m so confused I’m not sure if I lost my horse or found a rope

The most effective copyright protection known to man: a scratched CD.

What do you call a psychic midget that escaped from prison? A small medium at large.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Womens faults are many, while men have only two. Everything they say and everything they do.

I beat up a white guy – got charged with GBH. I beat up a black guy – got charged with impersonating a police officer!

When I look at just how our country has changed since NuLabour got into power, I cringe and, frankly, shall not be sorry to leave this earth when my time comes. Certainly the world that I knew has long since gone and in it’s place we have this crime-ridden, heathen, drunken, multi-cultural excuse for a society. Consider what I think to be the worst of today’s ills in our country, and why we have them;

• Crime. It is a fact that we can no longer walk our streets without fear of being assaulted/mugged/raped/accosted, despite the criminally-deceptive figures that our police give us. So, who are we afraid of? Simple, really. Assaulted by drink/drug crazed yobs – thanks to NuLabour’s crazy ‘all-day-drinking’ laws. Brilliant. Well done! Mugged and accosted by similarly affected yobs, but with ranks swollen by Eastern European immigrants , now totally flooding our country. Many of them are professional beggars and thieves. Raped; Similar to the others. All of these are, of course, fuelled by ridiculous sentencing in our courts, and early-release from custodial sentences. Who’s to blame? Let’s be fair, ALL court sentences are the direct result of our Judges/Magistrates enforcing ‘Guidelines’ from NuLabour, and prisoners are granted early release under NuLabour’s rules! Quite simply; Our pathetic sentencing and custodial policies are the sole fault of NuLabour, in the face of Jack ‘Man of’ Straw, and our beaks – many of whom feature strongly in Dickiebo’s Ace Wally section.
• Heathen. We were a Christian country. With HM The Queen as our Head – both of State and Church. We are now a heathen country, where the only religion likely to be found in most days’ news is about Islam! Schools are full of their teachings of ‘other’ religions, so as not to offend them! What a bloody cheek. Can you just imagine going to, say, Saudi Arabia, and kicking up merry hell because their schools do not teach Christianity? How about if we go to these other countries and TELL them that we demand that they make full provisions for Christianity? NuLabour have completely ‘dumbed-down’ Christianity, not only in schools and other places, but also by their complete disdain for the sanctity of marriage and family life. Great effort!
• Drunken. As above. Despite the good advice of ALL respectable agencies and others, NuLabour passed laws allowing all-day – and night – drinking. Even a half-baked idiot could foresee what carnage this would lead to – particularly with our police being unable to handle their workloads BEFORE this gem of an idea! And so it has! We are the drunken capital of the western world. Thanks, NuLabour.
• Multi-cultural. A NuLabour euphemism for ‘Foreigners voting Labour’! We have been totally swamped by foreigners, both legally here and illegally here. The former, courtesy of NuLabour’s criminal ’social-engineering’ plan – now leaked by an insider, and the latter caused by NuLabour’s deliberate policy of having an open border, allowing in the scum of all countries. Yes. The scum! There are very, very few decent illegals, but very many out-and-out criminals – just as I predicted would happen 30 years ago! Without a doubt, this crime is the very worst that NuLabour have committed upon our country, and has led to many of the other problems, and quite a lot of others. E.g. Swamping our National Health Service/Flooding our schools, particularly with kids who do not even speak our language/Taking accommodation from genuine British citizens/Costing God-knows-how-much in benefits – which means money taken from you and I/Taking jobs that would otherwise be open to British citizens/ etc.
  
• Freedom. We have always taken this for granted. Not bloody now! NuLabour have passed laws which effectively rob us of our freedom. Would you believe that one of their laws, which they have forced upon us, state that “………the fact that it (what was said) is true, shall be no defence.” I’m buggered! We can no longer take a photograph of a cop!!!!! Just how bloody sinister is that? [In my day in the West End of London, tourists took our photographs several times a day.] We cannot smoke in most places – including our local pub, despite the Landlords of the premises wanting to let us! We DARE NOT place the wrong type of rubbish into our rubbish bags for fear of an instant fine. We cannot drive at 31mph without being fined! We cannot mind our friends’ children without submitting ourselves to a police check!!! Etc., etc., etc. All of these are thanks, yet again, to NuLabour’s administration.
  

I have to say, I could go on and on, but what’s the use? It is clear, even to a child, that NuLabour has wreaked havoc upon a once-great country. Do you remember their election lies?

• “No more boom and bust!” We are more bust now than we have ever been – and will not recover until after our lifetimes – if then!
  
• “No more sleaze!” What a ruddy joke. The worst sleaze that we have EVER had to endure.
  
• “A referendum on the E.U.!” Lies, lies, lies! Having got into power with these promises, they promptly refused to give us a Referendum! Surprise! Surprise!
  

They have;

• Destroyed the once finest police in the whole world.
  
• Created the untouchable monster called A.C.P.O. (The Association of Chief Police Officers) who are even exempt from the Freedom of Information Act!!!
  
• Created HUNDREDS of unaccountable Quangos. (Quasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations).
  

So, are these NuLabour traitors to blame for our downfall? It’s certainly interesting to note how many of them were Members of The Communist Party at one time. Also, many come from the ranks of the Trade Unions. Quelle surprise! (?Quel?) Clearly our troubles have been as a direct result of their treachery but………are they alone to blame? I think not. We are told that something like one person in three STILL support these vile creatures, despite everything. So, why? I believe that there are a few reasons why some people still support them;

• Brainless people who vote for them “because my parents did!” Clearly they don’t have a mind of their own, not for one moment realising that times were mighty different in our parents’ day.
  
• Radical left-wingers – akin to communists, really. Drag everybody down to the lowest common denominator, regardless of the fact that it would destroy our country. Under this scheme, we would all be under the control of the State, whilst the ‘Party Members’ would lead lives of luxury. Quite like our current Champagne Socialists.
  
• Spongers, who want you and I to pay them not to work. Far too inconvenient!
  
• Nouveau Brits. Those millions of foreigners who NuLabour have brought in, simply to vote for them.
  

The Daily Mail have kindly produced a table of all the Parliamentary Constituencies, outlining the numbers of spongers people relying on benefit, and what political party they vote for. How fascinating! Have a peek! [Please don't whine about genuine cases! We are all aware that some are genuine, but.......see the trend!!]

The biggest spongers benefit recipients first;

And that….is the truth! Virtually the worst 200 constituencies for sponging benefits vote NuLabour. No wonder this rotten government keeps giving them more and more of genuine workers’ hard-earned cash.

So, I ask again; Who are the real criminals, apart from NuLabour? THE ONE-IN-THREE WHO SUPPORT THEM! That’s who.

Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out

Jeremy Clarkson

I’ve given the matter a great deal of thought all week, and I’m afraid I’ve decided that it’s no good putting Peter Mandelson in a prison. I’m afraid he will have to be tied to the front of a van and driven round the country until he isn’t alive any more.

He announced last week that middle-class children will simply not be allowed into the country’s top universities even if they have 4,000 A-levels, because all the places will be taken by Albanians and guillemots and whatever other stupid bandwagon the conniving idiot has leapt onto in the meantime.

I hate Peter Mandelson. I hate his fondness for extremely pale blue jeans and I hate that preposterous moustache he used to sport in the days when he didn’t bother trying to cover up his left-wing fanaticism. I hate the way he quite literally lords it over us even though he’s resigned in disgrace twice, and now holds an important decision-making job for which he was not elected. Mostly, though, I hate him because his one-man war on the bright and the witty and the successful means that half my friends now seem to be taking leave of their senses.

There’s talk of emigration in the air. It’s everywhere I go. Parties. Work. In the supermarket. My daughter is working herself half to death to get good grades at GSCE and can’t see the point because she won’t be going to university, because she doesn’t have a beak or flippers or a qualification in washing windscreens at the lights. She wonders, often, why we don’t live in America.

Then you have the chaps and chapesses who can’t stand the constant raids on their wallets and their privacy. They can’t understand why they are taxed at 50% on their income and then taxed again for driving into the nation’s capital. They can’t understand what happened to the hunt for the weapons of mass destruction. They can’t understand anything. They see the Highway Wombles in those brand new 4×4s that they paid for, and they see the M4 bus lane and they see the speed cameras and the community support officers and they see the Albanians stealing their wheelbarrows and nothing can be done because it’s racist. And they see Alistair Darling handing over £4,350 of their money to not sort out the banking crisis that he doesn’t understand because he’s a small-town solicitor, and they see the stupid war on drugs and the war on drink and the war on smoking and the war on hunting and the war on fun and the war on scientists and the obsession with the climate and the price of train fares soaring past £1,000 and the Guardian power-brokers getting uppity about one shot baboon and not uppity at all about all the dead soldiers in Afghanistan, and how they got rid of Blair only to find the lying twerp is now going to come back even more powerful than ever, and they think, “I’ve had enough of this. I’m off.”

It’s a lovely idea, to get out of this stupid, Fairtrade, Brown-stained, Mandelson-skewed, equal-opportunities, multicultural, carbon-neutral, trendily left, regionally assembled, big-government, trilingual, mosque-drenched, all-the-pigs-are-equal, property-is-theft hellhole and set up shop somewhere else. But where?

You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can’t go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don’t sweep your lawn properly, and you can’t go to Italy because you’ll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse’s head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for “organising” a plumber.

You can’t go to Australia because it’s full of things that will eat you, you can’t go to New Zealand because they don’t accept anyone who is more than 40 and you can’t go to Monte Carlo because they don’t accept anyone who has less than 40 mill. And you can’t go to Spain because you’re not called Del and you weren’t involved in the Walthamstow blag. And you can’t go to Germany … because you just can’t.

The Caribbean sounds tempting, but there is no work, which means that one day, whether you like it or not, you’ll end up like all the other expats, with a nose like a burst beetroot, wondering if it’s okay to have a small sharpener at 10 in the morning. And, as I keep explaining to my daughter, we can’t go to America because if you catch a cold over there, the health system is designed in such a way that you end up without a house. Or dead.

Canada’s full of people pretending to be French, South Africa’s too risky, Russia’s worse and everywhere else is too full of snow, too full of flies or too full of people who want to cut your head off on the internet. So you can dream all you like about upping sticks and moving to a country that doesn’t help itself to half of everything you earn and then spend the money it gets on bus lanes and advertisements about the dangers of salt. But wherever you go you’ll wind up an alcoholic or dead or bored or in a cellar, in an orange jumpsuit, gently wetting yourself on the web. All of these things are worse than being persecuted for eating a sandwich at the wheel.

I see no reason to be miserable. Yes, Britain now is worse than it’s been for decades, but the lunatics who’ve made it so ghastly are on their way out. Soon, they will be back in Hackney with their South African nuclear-free peace polenta. And instead the show will be run by a bloke whose dad has a wallpaper shop and possibly, terrifyingly, a twerp in Belgium whose fruitless game of hunt-the-WMD has netted him £15m on the lecture circuit.

So actually I do see a reason to be miserable. Which is why I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

Article re-produced from today’s Times OnLine.

Labour fatally compromised our national security.

by Raedwald

The Times carries a lengthy piece this morning on how, as Labour so easily shed the blood of our young men in Afghanistan ‘to protect the UK from terrorism’, they were bending over backwards to encourage as many Pakistani terrorists as possible to emigrate here. And by abolishing exit controls, deliberately lost all track of all those Jihadists from Bradford and Luton who travelled to the tribal areas to train in bombs and terror.

The ‘chain of terror’ that Gordon Brown draws between Afghanistan and the streets of Britain links Al Queda directly with the Labour Party. For dross, for sleazy electoral gain, for gerrymandering and political corruption, the Labour Party have fatally compromised our national security. God rot their souls.