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🇬🇧 I’d go so my children wouldn’t have to 🫡
I watched Alex Armstrong last night saying he couldn’t fight for his country, followed by a pile-on from the older generation on the panel. I can see both sides. The older generation believes we have a duty to defend our country, while the younger generation is asking why they should risk their lives for a government they feel has treated the working class with contempt.
As a veteran who has served on three operational tours, I understand the complexities of military service. I didn’t deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan as a soldier, although I worked in Afghanistan as a close protection officer. I would never presume to speak for those who endured countless tours, lost friends or returned with lifelong physical and psychological injuries. I work with veterans, and I know the sacrifices don’t end when the fighting stops.
This isn’t necessarily about young people refusing to defend their country. It’s about a generation who feel their country no longer respects them. Many have been criticised simply for displaying patriotism, yet could one day be expected to put on a uniform and make the ultimate sacrifice. That’s a conversation worth having, rather than dismissing their concerns.
Would I fight for my country again? Yes. But not for any government. I’d fight for the men and women standing beside me, for my family and for the generations coming after us.
And perhaps this is where my answer becomes personal. I’d rather they sent me than my children. I’ve lived my life. I want my children to live theirs, to marry, have children of their own and grow old. If sacrificing my life meant my children, or someone else’s children, could have that future, I’d do it.
So I understand Alex, and I understand the older generation on that panel. Patriotism, duty, sacrifice and trust in government are not the same thing. You can love your country while feeling profoundly let down by those governing it.
For me, the answer is simple, even if the question isn’t.
I’d go so my children wouldn’t have to.
My full monologue from tonight 👇
“Give us a reason to want to fight and die for this country again”.
On @GBNEWS
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Private Percy Tolliday of the 11th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment, has been laid to rest on the Somme alongside two unknown comrades, more than a century after their deaths in the First World War.
The men were recovered by our colleagues from our specialist Recovery Unit.
Dr Daniel Seaton, CWGC Commemorations Case Officer said: “The three casualties now laid to rest were recovered by our specialist Recovery Unit, not far away from where today’s ceremony has taken place. I am delighted that, following research conducted by ourselves and the JCCC, Private Tolliday has been identified, and remain hopeful that it may also be possible to identify the two Unknown Soldiers in the future. All three are now remembered with honour in the Commission’s Warlencourt British Cemetery”
Image: Crown Copyright
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Late afternoon walk around Old Amersham in Buckinghamshire. The Lone Soldier in the Memorial Gardens - his head bowed, and rifle inverted as a sign of respect for the fallen. #LestWeForget #WW1 #WW2
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I am a single poppy
A reminder to you all
That courage faith and honour
Will stand where hero's fall.
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Labour, this party is now the government, is this ethical🧐
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Experian built Labour a database of over 1 million new mums.
The data came from Emma's Diary - a pregnancy advice site that sold names, addresses and kids' ages without telling mums it would go to a political party. 😳🤦
ICO fined them £140,000. Labour used it to target mums in marginal seats before the 2017 election.
A million women. One fine. Almost no press.
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Weather permitting the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards with musical support from the Band of the Irish Guards and the 1st Bn. Scots Guards Pipes and Drums will be Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace tomorrow, Monday 26 October.
Picture by: Mark Leishman
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Why I'm optimistic 👇
For twelve years I've been banging on about this and now people are finally seeing it, evolving communism, cultural Marxism or whatever label you choose, it's all the same.
The EU was never just about trade. It's a communist style structure. Centralised control. Unelected people at the top telling elected people at the bottom what they can do. You vote one way, they ignore you, and carry on anyway. How many times have we seen that?
People ask how did we get here? It didn't happen overnight. It's generational.
Go back to the sixties. You had all those left wing students demonstrating. CND, sit-ins, banners, shouting down anyone who disagreed. At the time we thought it was just students being students.
Those indoctrinated students? They became the professors. They became the teachers, the lecturers, the BBC producers, the civil servants, the judges, the Archbishops, the people running the charities. The EU commission, NATO bosses, NGOs, UN officials etc
And they taught the next generation. And that generation taught the next one. That's three generations now.
There is a famous saying from the German student leader Rudi Dutschke. He talked about t
The Long March through the institutions. And that's exactly what happened.
You don't need to attack a public building with violence . That's too obvious. You just need to attack all the things within it.
You attack the family - tell people the family is outdated, that mothers shouldn't be at home, that children belong to the state.
You create such a costly environment, where buying bricks and mortar is impossible, a family today can't but a house with two wages, that keeps the mother at work, the child in third party hands for 8 hours a day in formative years.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, who's rocking your cradle.
You attack the church - tell people faith is bigotry, close the churches, laugh at Christians while protecting religions with very like-minded controlling doctrines.
You attack the schools - stop teaching history properly, stop teaching right from wrong, teach children to be ashamed of their own country.
Encourage people not to work, to be dependent on the state. If the state controls you're income, it controls what you spend it on .
You can never get out, or grow.
You attack law and borders - tell people that a country that controls its border is racist.
By the time you have done all that, you still have the same buildings - Parliament, the courts, the schools, the churches - but they mean something completely different. They have been hollowed out from the inside.
That is what the EU is. It's the perfect vehicle for it. Laws made far away, that you can't vote out, that overrule your own courts and your own Parliament. It's control by committee. That's not democracy. That's communism by another name.
Even worse quangos that control the news you see, the products you buy, the food you eat. Additives that benefit a few fed to the whole
Nation despite health issues
I voted Brexit because I saw it. A lot of us did. Some places voted 70% for less immigration and for control back, and we were told we were wrong.
But now with AI we can look it up ourselves. We don't have to take their word for it anymore. We can follow the money, see who funds what, who sits on what board, and we can share it with each other.
They can't hide it anymore,
Musk opened The Twitter Files and showed the world what's really going on, we've information is power we have direct access to it and have grown in strength.
Their Long March has been uninterrupted for decades, be patient, keep talking , keep sharing, they'll never reach the finish line.
That's why I'm optimistic ❤️
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🔍 It’s #NationalPensionTracingDay
❗️Did you know there are 17,000+ unclaimed #veterans pensions?
Benefits are NOT paid automatically so please spread the word.
To check eligibility and how to claim head to the link.
👉🏻 forcespensionsociety.org/unc…
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Manchester War Memorial - warmemorialstories.com - War Memorial Stories is a methodical digital archive dedicated to preserving the personal narratives behind local war memorials. #WW1 #WarMemorial #Manchester #LestWeForget
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Tysoe and Compton Wynyates war memorial. The Green, Middle Tysoe, Warwickshire. First and Second World Wars. #LestWeForget
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🌺 Their courage. Their sacrifice. Our remembrance.
Join us at RAF Museum Midlands this Remembrance Sunday for a special Remembrance Service that honours those who served.
📅 8 November | 10.45am
🎟️ FREE – book ahead
🪑 Limited seating, priority for those unable to stand.
❤️ We will remember them.
rafmuseum.org.uk/midlands/wh…
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Why are you paying £8 for a standard 190g jar of Gold Blend instant coffee?
Aldi do an almost identical freeze-dried 200g jar for £2.65.
Tried them both, virtually no difference.
Instant coffee isn't proper coffee, there's no such thing as a "Premium" instant.
Use your brain and buy the Dupe.
Can you think of any other dupes that offer massive savings?
I'm off for some Tesco Baked Beans for 39p..
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Five years ago today was a huge day for the Ex WRAF as our memorial was unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum.
Conceptualized, designed and then funded by us and supporters of the WRAF and we are hugely proud of that.
@RAFAssociation
@Nat_mem_arb
@RoyalAirForce
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Soldiers from the Household Division marked the centenary of the Guards Memorial, honouring the 14,000 Guardsmen it commemorates and the generations who have served since.
Different threats. Same duty.
Read more ⬇️
bit.ly/4dW6Oe1
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Thankyou @ShippersUnbound and @spectator for the chance to discuss : SAS witch hunt: is Britain betraying its own special forces? shows.acast.com/68359028e1ab… via @acast
Those that willingly conduct and direct this damaging witch hunt against the SAS are acting in the interest of our many enemies. They weaken not just the Special Forces, but the whole of the national defence system and its essential ability to execute or threaten lethal force against those that seek to destroy or damage us.
It represents an act of national self-harm as damaging and serious as the suicidal act of unilateral disarmament would be in the face of actual military invasion. Utter madness….
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DON'T FORGET - if your planning to visit the Sunday Parade at Buckingham Palace tomorrow, 25 October, that the clocks go back tonight.
On parade tomorrow, in Winter Dress, will be 26 Regiment Engineers with the Band of the Irish Guards providing the musical support.
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The Civil Service must be a magnet for the best and brightest,' writes cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo on the civil service website.
But Mr S has been wondering if the stats stand up to the slogan…
It turns out that 70 per cent of those applying to the civil service summer internship programme in 2026 were barred because they were deemed to be in the wrong social class. That amounted to 4,148 young people.
✍️ Steerpike
Article | spectator.com/article/class-… | @MrSteerpike
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Southam War Memorial, Warwickshire - warmemorialstories.com - War Memorial Stories is a methodical digital archive dedicated to preserving the personal narratives behind local war memorials. #WW1 #WarMemorial #Southam #LestWeForget




































