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POPSCyril Ellis - a hero
Heroes are so often quiet people who do little to arouse notoriety until they are called on to do superhuman things. They are abound today in the mountains of Afghanistan, a legacy of past generations cemented on tradition and loyalties established by giants like Cyril Ellis. Cyril answered the call along with others of his generation and his family; his brother Ronnie was a sergeant of Guards, Cyril became a Royal Marine and was one of the original Commandos. When Britain was able to go on the offensive to Free Europe, it was the types of Cyril Ellis who led the way. He fought with great distinction, and many say he ought to have been decorated, at Salerno where, as an acting colour-sergeant, led his troop to capture German artillery and prevent a massive counter-attack from a strong and well equipped foe. Subsequently, whilst with 41 Commando, he was involved with the assault on D-Day beaches of Normandy, and in late autumn of that year in the reckless and magnificent assault
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POPSAfghanistan - another view who, according to British media, are not present in this war torn country. Not controlling the high ground is a certain recipe for disaster. In a modern age where logistics are so essential it is amazing that a semi literate almost primitive foe can have access to modern telephone technology but the Nato troops are ham-strung with their heavy and useless radio networks and equipment. All Nato troops now carry weapons that share 55.6 ammunition in a country where the average contact starts at massive distances. This means that you are dependent on support weapons which are totally alien to the mobility of troops trained for speed and action. The Italians, masters at Alpine terrains and warfare would never acquiesce to allowing their soldiers to be more than shooting ducks in a theatre they practice in their own back yard, or would they? Read this piece for yourself and then speak with you MP. Or better still continue accepting the lies fostered by this illegal and immoral governme
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POPSUS Marines facing reality They ought to read this blog, they and their inept and idiotic political masters. I had a US former Marine Sgt work for me in Namibia. He could not understand that his two year enlistment did nowhere equate to that of a 15 year regular soldier. Very few of the lessons in soldiering can be gained from the library of military literature. They are gained in the field, from those who have experienced all that service has to offer. The British made an enormous mistake when, after the Falklands, the major slice of experienced senior nco's were forcibly retired. That single instrument allowed second class senior officers to kowtow to their political masters, with disastrous procurement of everything essential from personal weapons to food, through footwear to transport. When General Jackson and his cronies were feathering their pension pots, the skills and loyalty of the squaddie were evaporating on a maelstrom of political correctness and Health & Safety. I heard not a beep out of th
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POPSThe Penny Drops - but has Washington learned? What took the might of the Soviet Empire, the erudition of the British Empire a generation to learn, has taken Washington seven years. You cannot impose on the disparate and clannish Afghan people ideals and “standards” which their history has continually rejected without fundamentally changing the entire ‘psyche’ of the Afghan people. The only people to make an impact on the Afghans were the Mongols and they did it by imposing the strict code or law of the Mongol Empire that was universal under their regime. It read, 1- No gods supersede the Emperor. 2- All gods are equal under the Emperor, down to about 10 when it read 'all emissaries to the Court of the Emperor are to have safe passage under threat of death to perpetrators'. The Mongols enforced their law by recruiting the savants and mandarins from within the conquered nations, supported by the most mobile and terrifying army ever seen on Earth. For a brief period of time its' efficiency and thoroughness worked. Where were th
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POPSThe Penny Drops - but has Washington learned? What took the might of the Soviet Empire, the erudition of the British Empire a generation to learn, has taken Washington seven years. You cannot impose on the disparate and clannish Afghan people ideals and “standards” which their history has continually rejected without fundamentally changing the entire ‘psyche’ of the Afghan people. The only people to make an impact on the Afghans were the Mongols and they did it by imposing the strict code or law of the Mongol Empire that was universal under their regime. It read, 1- No gods supersede the Emperor. 2- All gods are equal under the Emperor. Down to about 10 when it read all emissaries to the Court of the Emperor are to have safe passage under threat of death to perpetrators. The Mongols enforced their law by recruiting the savants and mandarins from within the conquered nations, supported by the most mobile and terrifying army ever seen on Earth. For a brief period of time it efficiency and thoroughness worked. Where were t
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POPSAnother killed in Afghanistan I have not ignored the fact that another British soldier from the 2nd Lancs was killed. This is to remind all those Labour suporters that those dying in their war are all from British stock, be they American, Canadian or Australian. There supporters who wave hate banners at reeturning sol;diers and harbour sedition against our greed - DO NOT. TUC blinded delegates, get into the real world. Your debate today has been an insult to those injured and killed for your corrupt ideals.
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POPSIs The TImes wrong? Bernard Grey does not pull his punches, while the MP responsible for Veterans ignores the more civil protests from aggrieved constituents. You want us to fight for you but you are not ready to honour your debt. Vote a politician and get a rogue.
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POPSThe hidden cost of Afghanistan Hospital figures are quoted as British casualties on over 100 per week. Stop playing games, Mr Brown and stop this insidious slaughter of British youth. The long term injuries are never adequately dealt with and a few years after your successor takes office, all your mealy mouthed assurances will have been forgotten. Does anyone remember the victims of the Abercorn bombing, the Enniskillen murders or the thousands of injured in the politically lost war against the Ira?
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POPSSoldiers dying for want of vehicles The charge against the politicians is more grave than this sad story. Had the Government taken into it heart, the genius and endevour of the RHODESIAN Corp of Engnineers, not only would these vehicles - and a better version of what we seen above - but more lives and moneys to the Exchequer would have been saved and available to the Army.
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POPSSiren falling on deaf ears Ther internet has been awash with erudite pieces and condemnation of ineptitude and incompetence by the British government, yet a vocal minority of pinkoe activists and blatant liars have held a once great nation to ransom. Call a puffter a name and you are sent to jail. Demand the rightsd of brave Britons to defend themselves and you are outcast and demonised. Come home a phyical wreck and you are worth a passing remark by Broon and his falacious brood. Come home in a pine box and only the wonderful people of Wooton Basset will give you the welcome you deserve. No wonder our kith and kin in Canada and Antipodes emigrated. Nothing is being said about the Christians being burned alive today in India by their Muslim neighbours. What a wonderful world.
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POPSCanadian cousins fighting with us For those who choose to forget that the blood running through our veins runs through most of our kin in Canada. These are more British than the thousands of illegal immigrants already bastioned in Calais.
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POPSBrave, young British widow She may not have said so by name, but the non-mention of Ssafa and RBL told me and reinforced all my prejudices at soulless, two top heavy institutions they have evolved into. Listening to a Court judge succinctly inform the powers of the mighty Soldiers, Sailor and Air Force Families Association gave me and other witnesses no succour. The simple truth is they have become defunct especially in Lancashire. The communication gap between the all important caseworker and the mandarins in Central Office is wider than that between the electorate and the thieving mongrels at Westminster. What is worse, there is nothing, no viable instrument in place to hold the hierarchy of Ssafa to account. So when I am told by former Royal Marines how proud they are of the leadership of Ssafa I ask if they have ever volunteered. Until they have they should stay stum and listen to those who did.
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POPSMoron Labour Minister The story tells you all. Defend this if you dare. And I heard this creep running down the BNP and its supporters. My friend, a former BNP candidate in Wigan, has just welcomed his nephew back from Afghanistan, to Selly Oak hospital. That is the difference between true Englishmen and those who want to ruin us.
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POPSRoyal Marine Dies Like the four heroes who died last week, this story has been sidelined by the expenses debacle. My sincerest sympathies to all the families of the fallen.
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POPSBritish traitors The traitors are those in Westminster who give these mass murderers security of a British passport - yet argue over the children of British heroes born in British Military Hospitals overseas. Are you listening Westminster? That is rhetorical because they are not.
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POPSIs Mr Spliff a private Wa*nk*er? The answer is no, you are, for allowing these parasites to dictate to you the depths of your misery whilst they PLUG their own shortcomings through their expense claims. Mr Spliff really has SUNK it to the electorate, at our expense. I have heard so much nonesense talked. To kill the expenses debate all there needs is for Westminster to have a travel officer, Black Rod or another, who can issue second class warrents to MP's. Afterall, if a second class warrent is good enough for a soldier, then it must be good enough for an MP. And most soldiers have second homes for which they often have to pay out of their salaries, wages, incomes!!! They are in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans. The expression parasite seem too tame from a disabled former regular soldier whose pension was stolen by Labour. For any MP to argue that these expenses are within the rule dictates a total moral implosion.
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POPSGetting ready to run? 200 years of misadventure in the Himalayan Mountains and politicians suddenly knew better. Why d we trust them. Because we are still lions led by donkeys.
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POPSBritish Muslims complicit in murder The BBC Daily Politics blog refused to post a letter stating the obvious on immigrant participation in the treason perpetrated behind a security wall, built on the bodies of brave British people, American, Canadians, Australians soldiers. Yet every BBC programme gives voice to the odious ranting of immigrants still set within the 8th century.
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POPSAnother brave Digger killed in Afghanistan Contrary to this report, this in the ninth Aussie killed in action in Afghanistan. When we think of this brave nation, we have to remember that they are our kin, our family, not Greeks, Latvian, Vietnamese, Russian or Chinese. Apart from the Aboriginals, the first settlers were British. They have altered the language to Strein, bastardised the humour with wonderfully free effect, argued over the Queen as Head of State; but they still remain our cousins, uncles aunts and family. Bless you all. Our thoughts to the families and friends of those fighting for our way of life.
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POPSCorporal Liam Elms RM When you read about the celebs snorting the drugs that are financing this war, spare a moment for the real men who are fighting the tides of the West's insatiable addictions. When you see pictures of Kate Moss going into re-hab, financing the worthless shits she has sex with, remember real heroes. All thought are with the families of serving members of HM Forces and their families and friends.
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POPSIndia v. Pakistan, and it definitely aint cricket Read into this what you want. Two nuclear armed countries face off across an acrimonious border and Pakistan seems to be taking troops from the Afghan border to it's neighbour in the South. What does it mean? Cheaper drugs for those who put dollars into the pockets of those who are murdering British, American and Nato soldiers in Afghanistan.
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POPSAussie killed serving with the Rifles Billy Connelly's act includes the statement about women... if they were leaders there would be no more war. WHAT??? The faggots in the Labour leadership who continually eulogise over the death of brave young people never get nearer to the action than behind a battalion of brave young people. My MP is a hero and expert on terrorism because he has been..."within two hundred yards of a terrorist bomb." How that must be a comfort to Stuart Nash's family and the thousands of wounded veterans he now represents (sic). No thanks will ever be enough.
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POPSRoyal Marine, Killed in Action It will appear mean at this moment, but every time I read of another casualty the words of the representative for Veterans Mr Gordon Marsden come back to choke me... "I know all about terrorism because I have been two hundred yards from a bomb in London." Not exactly the same as this brave man who put his hands on evil explosive devices to render them harmless, so that his comrades can do their tasks. Such brave men have never asked for much and always been ready for the moment. It is why a bootneck was always referred to as an empty bottle. With pride the Bootnecks took this backhanded compliment on board. RIP Royal.
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POPSBritish terrorist killed? Why is it most free thinking Britons are incensed by the cacophony of abuse aimed at a legal political party, the BNP, but shy away from recognising that their attitudes give credibility to mass murders? On this weeks Question Time, BBC 1, Thursday evening, every single contributor castigated the English electorate for the growing support for the BNP. Not one actually said that - and I am a lifetime Conservative - the BNP is asking the questions, and probably giving an answer, to many of the fears that they have.
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POPSTraumatised Veterans get no CARE - just platitudes. This proves the lie that Labour cares for veterans. With 1 in 5 prisoners being former servicemen, there has to be some reason for this. What changes caring warriors into mindless thugs? Insults, neglect and total indifference. I charge all the major charities be they Royal British Legion, Soldiers,Sailors , Airmens Family Association to come up to the mark and put your money where your mouths are, and stop overpaying former generals and territorial officers for doing what volunteer carers do for nothing...care for the needy former soldier.
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POPSSAS chief resigns Gordon Marsden MP for Blackpool South has been in receipt of this complaint since he was elected into Parliament in 1997. He seems to have done nothing except get himself a jog looking after Veterans Affairs
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POPSSBS, SAS get more tasks in Afghanistan While the Civvy Shits who run the MoD on behalf of this effete Government get more brazen with their false assertions of victory, more soldiers are dying. When the nation has the courage to tell these self opinionated ignoramuses that everything they touch turns to SH&T, and when those sheeples who swallow whole the bunkum and disinformation coming from Downing Street like overpaid prostitutes sucking on the sperm of middle eastern despots, when the nations says enough, we Brits will regain our self respect and national morality. Until then Bless the troops being tasked with impossible missions and may they get home safe and well.
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POPSGeert Wilders Very rarely nowadays does a radio interview provoke intense thought. Geert Wilders, rightly or wrongly, has chosen a course of action which offends the Muslim minority in his homeland, and the pinkie liberal effete who would rather betray every aspect of their heritage, to an ideology which promotes the amputation of limbs for petty theft and the discriminatory stoning of women for adultery. If that was enforced in the UK I know of several neighbourhoods that would rapidly be depleted of females whilst the obliging males would have to find other means of sexual gratification. Put this recording of the BBC 4 Choice programme on audio, listen whilst you knit a Union Flag for the troops in Afghanistan, and Iraq, and the Balkans, and in Northern Ireland - Ulster to many of us old farts, and for those taking drugs whilst the government orders those who do not to turn a blind eye. The ipod or recording can be listened to on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thechoice/pip/o83py/
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POPSRealities of Conflict When the spectre of suicide bombers recently emerged, I remember the din of disbelief that such a weapon can be conquered. In a letter to Gordon Marsden MP Blackpool, I informed him that the niceties of war have to be suspended as the prevalent 'duty of care' has to be ones own soldiers. He would not engage someone who had fought on three continents and had some experience of similar situations. You never let a stranger within blast distance of a section. If he has to be shot for not getting down on the ground, so-be-it. And the army should be deploying dogs, no matter how it upsets the Pathan. A well trained sniffer dog will save lives. Once the dog starts to react the handler can immediately caller bomber and the troops disperse. Sometimes the dog-handler will misread the situation, but it is not his fault. Blame the politicians who did not think this situation through. A thousand years of confronting different invaders and Blair and Bush expected the Pathan to welcome the
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POPSWrist-band for your comrade. This has to be examined and commented on. I cannot imagine the Head of the Rhodesian Army issuing edicts to Selous Scouts over dress and getting away with it. Discipline is disciple, but common sense is common sense. If there is an overwhelming response from those doing the job that a matter has to be dealt with in a certain manner, then any reasonable senior rank would take that into consideration. I was told by an individual that I cannot wear my Rhodesian GSM on parade. My response..."Do you want that finger broken or do you want to clean your teeth from up your arse-hole?" Word of warning to the Marines. Collective dissent is Mutiny. There are arse-holes out there who would use QR&R's to pervert your desire to give homage to your comrades. You will not remember this, but these are the words scribed into history by our forefathers from the Great war... "Fuck 'em all. Fuck 'em all. The long and the short and the tall. Fuck all the sergeants and WO 1's. Fuck all the serg
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POPSZimbabwe early leaders Please read the whole extract on my blog. For people with genuine interest in the plight of the African Nations, there is an insight into the mentality of Africans and their supporters. For those who say that my remarks are fundamentally racist, I say that these are events that have happened, and when I say to my younger relatives that I fear for the future of this once Great Island Nation, they too cannot see what I fear is happening around us. Whilst politicians blindly walk into a hostile future, there is a total reluctance to listen to those who have already been through these events. If you want a more graphic example just look at the Armed Services in Iraq and Afghanistan being sacrificed on the altar of political vanity by a few political egos. As a life soldier, those who have never been in action will never understand that we served for the adrenalin rush, there is no other like it. Once that has been removed all other life seems meaningless. If former soldiers fall i
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