Billions want to come to the UK. So, stop the boats! These illegal incomers want to take your job, your second home and one of your cars (at least) and, God forbid, take your daughters from you. They will invade our NHS and their foreign offspring will fill our schools too. Do not listen to Labour, the reds, the trade unions and the churches. Don't read the papers of the liberals and the left - these are loony humanitarian idealists. Beware! Stop the boats, get things done, and off to Rwanda with them!

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Self-portrait as one of the jubilant 160 000 members of the Tory party who alone, but on behalf of the whole nation, will decide the matter of the new British Prime Minister. These members are overwhelmingly white (like me), old (like me), male (like me), middle class (like me) and Brexiteers (unlike me). I've got the flowers, can I vote as well please?

Don't let evil, hatred and fear beat love, hope and unity.

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A classic Spitting Image sketch, "Stupid Voters", written and performed in 1991, featuring John Major et al. Totally relevant today, especially when the Tories of today are even worse than the old Tories ever could dream of being.

Spitting Image - Stupid Voters

Clown stock

It's not illegal to claim asylum, it's not illegal to be a refugee.

Never vote Tory.

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Listen to the absolute awesomeness that is Manic Street Preachers: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

The future teaches you to be alone

The present to be afraid and cold

"So if I can shoot rabbits then I can shoot fascists"

Bullets for your brain today

But we'll forget it all again

Monuments put from pen to paper

Turns me into a gutless wonder

And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

Will be next, will be next, will be next

Gravity keeps my head down

Or is it maybe shame

At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today

But I'm a pacifist

I've walked La Ramblas but not with real intent

And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

Will be next, will be next, will be next, yeah will be next

And on the street tonight

An old man plays with newspaper cuttings of his glory days

And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

And if you tolerate this then your children will be next

Will be next, will be next, will be next

Mostly Hating Tories

What shall I do on this fine day?

There’s so much on my list

A mix of work and rest and play

I’m sure you get my gist

And maybe I’ll compose a rhyme –

But my unwritten law is

That every day I’ll spend my time

Mostly hating Tories.

I’ll go to work, some bills I’ll pay

That’s if I’m feeling rash,

To see her through to payment day

I’ll lend my friend some cash,

I’ll probably make my kids some tea

And read them bedtime stories

Of homeless piggies one, two, three

And why they hate the Tories.

I’ll hate them for the bedroom tax

I’ll hate them for the cuts,

For living off the workers’ backs

I’ll hate their very guts,

Look, see the depths to which they’ll sink,

They don’t know where the floor is,

That’s why I’ll spend my day, I think,

Mostly hating Tories.

What’s that you say? That hate’s not nice?

Please love thine enemy?

Well yeah, I tried that once or twice

It doesn’t work for me,

And if you think that’s not fair play

Remember this, you must:

The Tories, they will spend their day

Mostly hating us.

A history of evil done

Will justify my hate,

I still detest the Tory scum

For Section Twenty Eight,

Nye Bevan built the NHS

So he knows what the score is:

And he said vermin come out best

Compared with bloody Tories.

I’m sure I’ll find time to revile

That UKIP and its drivel

And I’ll locate a little while

To loathe a lonesome Liberal,

I’ll maybe pause to show regret

For Labour’s missing glories

But save the fiercest fury yet

For mostly hating Tories.

For generations and hereon

Our class and those before us

Grew up to know which side we’re on:

The side that’s not the Tories,

So when I die, do this for me –

Inscribe and sing in chorus

Here lies Janine, her life spent she

Mostly hating Tories.

by Janine Booth

Here: bit.ly/3BZ0Mah

Conservative Party HQ Lunchtime Menu

Deprived shrimps

Money-glazed smirked ham

Scorn fritters

*

Battered electorate,

with a basket of crushed hopes

and slow-cooked fatigue

Half-baked notions,

idling on a soft bed of privilege,

served with a thick faux pas sauce

Kids in blankets,

deep-famished, with a deprivation of vegetables

and a relish reduction

Toads in the hole,

with golden hand-outs in a thick rich gravy

(self-serving only)

*

Eton Mess

Fudge (ten different flavours)

By Bill Bilston

Here: bit.ly/3zWAm6t

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St. Margaret's-at-Cliffe, Kent.

This was being erected as I arrived at the cliffs. Facing Europe it obviously gives one plain message. Rather rude if you ask me.

... but having found this graffiti in Liverpool city centre, there was no way I wasn't going to shoot and reload ... erm, upload.

At: #UkPeople & #World @KeirStarmer @COOPParty @UkLabour @EdwardJDavey @LibDems @TheSNP @NicolaSturgeon @TheGreenParty @NHS_ELFT @BedfordIndependent @OwenJones84 @Femi_Sorry @MetPolice_Uk @TheRoyalFamily ,

Boris Johnson ( @BorisJohnsonUk ) & #ToryParty Took & Took: #Putin #Russian Dictatorship Money & Farming Bots From Help With: #LeaveEU / #Brexit , To: #BorisJohnson Leadership Contests, From: #TheresaMay Leadership, Too Yatch Holidays With Ex #KGB Sons & Now In Rigged Unelected House Of Lords & Owns Evening Standard,

People Gotta See 👀 Through These #CONservatives Self Harming Uk & Uk People Scumbags, & Boris Johnson Is A Dangerous Fragile Ego'd Revengeful Narcissistic Personality Disorder Sufferer / #NPD Sufferer, Who Can ONLY CARE ABOUT BORIS JOHNSON :( 😞

#PersonalityDisorders #PersonalityDisorder #Johnson #Boris #UkPolitics #SocialMedia #ScreenShots #ScreenShot #Scott1984FP #Tumblr #BenjiAndJake84 #Instagram #Mastodon #MastodonSocial #YouTube #Flickr #PexilFed #RupertMurdoch

I think we would be better off ruled by some intelligent creatures rather than Bojo's crew ......

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Vote Democrat, Mortal Sin

by Guy McClung

THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC

It was clear before – vote democrat, commit mortal sin – but two things the Democrat Party has done since the last presidential election make this crystal clear.

abyssum.org/2018/07/16/did-you-know-that-the-way-you-vote...

Four Primrose League (PL) membership badges. Men were known as ‘Knights’ and the ladies’ as Dames. Other PL members were known as Associates and their badges are the plain primrose with yellow enamel and PL monogram, as above. Men’s and ladies’ membership badges were similar but differed in the type of clasp used; ‘buttonhole’ for men and pin-brooch style for the women’s. The primrose flower was selected as the PL’s emblem because it was reputed to have been Benjamin Disraeli’s favourite flower. The motto ‘Imperium et Libertas’ (Empire & Liberty) features on many of the PL's badges and insignia.

The Primrose League (PL) was founded in 1883 by Lord Randolph Churchill (father of Winston Churchill) in memory of Lord Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli), who died in 1881. Initially called the Primrose Tory League, the word ‘Tory’ was later dropped and remained as the Primrose League until its disbandment. The PL advocated and supported Conservative political party values and provided invaluable help during election campaigns. By the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, the PL was the largest and one of the most influential groups affiliated to any political party at the time. However, after WW1 their activities and influence waned and towards the end of the 20th century the PL's role was superseded by the Conservative Central Office. In 2004 the Primrose League were officially disbanded.

The original structure and hierarchy of the PL was influenced by the Orange Order, Masonic and Friendly Societies. The PL had their own hierarchy structure and insignia that included a wide range of badges and medals. Religion was no bar to membership, provided those members supported the principals of the Conservative Party. Membership was opened to women after 1885 and who formed the Ladies’ Grand Council with separate branches within the PL. Their numbers were very large, influential and who formed the Anti-Women’s Suffragette movement. A junior PL was formed whose members were generally known as the ‘Primrose Buds’. The Primrose Buds were disbanded in 1956 probably due to the rising influence of two junior conservative support groups, namely the Junior Imperial League and the Young Britons.

References:

primrose-league.leadhoster.com/sub1.html (Primrose League website - comprehensive range of their badges and insignia).

www.britishempire.co.uk/article/primroseleague.htm (About the Primrose League).

core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4818363.pdf (1998 thesis by Diana Elaine Sheets to trace the organizational development of the Primrose League between 1883 and 1901 and to examine its role in creating a popular basis of support for Conservatism).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primrose_League

Dear old 70033 named after one of our greatest writers and social documenter of Victorian Britain. Unfortunately the present Westminster Government cesspit of Ricketty Shoeracks seem to be using the works of Dickens as reference material as to how to run a country today ...

Please feel free to download/use this image in social media if you think it will help raise awareness and maintain support for the UK Steel Industry.

Little did I realise when my partner and I were having photographic fun amongst the oak trees, taking photo's of ourselves pretending to be the Green Man or Green Woman, that I would be using this particular image in an effort to save those very same trees. I wouldn't normally use flickr to air my grievances, social, political, religious or otherwise, but on this particular occasion I feel it necessary to do so.

As this shot was being taken, and unbeknown to me, the UK Government had put forward their plans to sell off to the highest bidder the rights of public ownership of our woodlands and forests (so far Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aren't involved…so far). They justify this action under the ethos of their current political agenda, which is to involve the public more in what goes on in our society thereby diminishing Government involvement or interference in our lives, or in their own words, 'Big Society!' rather than 'Big Government!'. All very admirable you might say but it's my personal belief, and it would appear to be many other people's also, that in this case it’s actually the window dressing to hide a very cynical ploy to divert the publics attention away from what this sale is truly about, a crude and incompetent attempt to make money fast to top up the Government coffers. Apparently, so we’re told, this sale is all for our benefit, local communities for instance, can get the chance own a wood, until, that is, they can't afford to run it year after year, and we then get to see woodlands sold, fenced off, cut down, bulldozed, built on with new luxury houses and new golf courses or charged entry fees to have access, the fact that it helps with the National Deficit is a bonus. That they want to sell back to us what we already own, I find particularly offensive and insulting. What they also conveniently forget to tell you is that today (Wednesday) in the House of Lords they start with their new underhanded strategy, which is to change the current laws which prevent them from selling off the truly big woodlands and forests like Sherwood Forest, The Forest of Dean and The New Forest, for they are the forests where the really big profits lie. It’s the same age old story, if a Government can't get its own way with the current laws, then it changes them so that it can!

But, the Government has been taken aback by the furore that's followed since the announcement. Everyone from the 'man and woman in the street' to environmental groups and experts, actors, artists, politicians(?), and even celebs (this is one band wagon I don't mind them jumping on!), have all joined in the increasing chorus of condemnation. In response, the Government is falling over itself to reassure us by saying that they will create new laws, regulations, standards, government watch-dogs, anything in fact to fool us into believing we're not losing a valuable asset forever. They say they'll give priority to charities, local communities and environmental organisations etc to have first bite of the woodland apple when the properties come up for sale. That'll be an interesting day at the woodland fire sale, for as a Forestry Commission spokesman quitely rightly said, it's one thing to buy some woodland but it's quite another thing to have the knowledge, tools and more importantly the finances to look after that woodland and to care for it practically year on year. As for private business/corporations being in ownership, they have two people to keep happy, their bank manager and their shareholder, and that means profit margins and making money. If it's Forestry Commission conifer plantations they buy, they can clear fell the mature trees and then wait around for a few years as younger trees come to maturity, so it's not a fast way to make money. If it's mixed deciduous woodland then it's full of trees that are massively in demand for expensive furniture and veneers for our kitchen units and tables etc, unfortunately, once you cut that lot down you will be waiting for many, many years before any newly planted trees come to maturity and profit. Either way, its a slow way to make money, unless, that is, you convert the actual land itself to other uses; golf courses, industrial units, luxury housing, private estates, Centre Parcs…you get the idea. In the current financial climate and for the foreseeable future what do you think will be going through their minds as they look at a plot woodland? These people literally can't see the wood for the cash! The Forestry Commission is not perfect, not by a long mark but surely it's better to fix it than let the Government sell it off to line their own pockets. Better the devil you know, and can redeem, than the devil you don't. Once the current form of public ownership is broken up piecemeal, we've lost it all.

So, you ask, what's the point of this post then, you depressing bugger, Tony? The point is, I'm asking that you, the British person reading this, to just say, NO! No, to the Government selling off OUR woodland. No, to the short term profit gains and long term environmental and social losses. No, to them depriving us access to something that is currently free, to something that heals and mends us just by being there. No, to the destruction of wildlife habitats and the death of trees, flowers, animals, insects, fungi...all those innocents in this human folly. The word ‘No’ is a simple word, just two letters, but it’s also one of the most powerful words in the world. By saying ‘No!’ to their plans you’re saying ‘Yes!’ to life, ‘Yes!’ for the future of our children and nature. If enough people speak with one voice they will be heard, they will be listened to.

Personally, as a lover of nature in all its forms and manifestations, and as a photographer who loves to try and capture its awesome beauty, I feel sick to my gut that one day I might not be able to gain entry to my favourite woodland or worse still see it and others chopped down, destroyed for the sake of a profit margin, or stand on the other side of the fence and watch the privileged few enjoy what was once everyones pleasure, especially so if it was because I did nothing to stop it. I don't know about anybody else but as a photographer I just can’t sit on my hands and not give something back to the woodland that has given me so many photographs. But, and more importantly for me as a human being, it’s not just the photographs it’s also all the magical experiences that I’ve had in the woods, the moments that made my skin tingle with excitement and anticipation, the awe inspiring sights that have burned themselves into my eyeballs and memories, it's the countless times I’ve had my soul touched and healed by the innocent gaze of a deer, fox or blackbird, by the shafts of light on misty mornings, by the rustle of autumn leaves talking with the wind as the sun goes down, or standing in awe listening to bird song so insanely musical that it brings a lump to my throat and makes my heart leap with joy, and then... and then there are the soft, deep silences in between those songs, that penetrate my body and tremble my soul with their touch, and speak without words of profound mysteries... When I think of all those things that I’ve been given freely, is it really too much for the woods and all the living things therein to ask that I help them in their time of need?

So that's what I'm doing, I'm helping them because I choose to owe them that help, and I'm asking you to choose to help them too. There are two things you can do; 1) Sign the national on-line petition at this address, www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests - nearly 400,000 people have signed it so far. 2) Take 5 or 10 minutes to log on to your MP's website and write to them telling them of your outrage at their plans, and what you WANT them to do about it, or just say whatever's within your heart to say. Don’t leave it for somebody else to do. If you're reading this then you DO have the time to do those two important but simple actions. As you sit there in front of your screen, enjoying your own space and doing what you want to do, ask yourself, which is more important, saving the woodland you love and photograph or clicking onto another stream, another photograph, making another comment. You don't have to worry, those things will continue to be there for you to do night after night but one day that woodland you photograph may not be…unless right now you just take a 10 minute time out and give a tree a hug by signing the petition and writing to your MP. And if you feel particularly pro-active there are many groups out there to lend your support to, lots of websites to view so you can get the real facts about this proposal rather than the Government propaganda, or you could even start up your own group or a website, as a 17 yr old teenager has just done near to me, or join a march…so go on, do something, if nothing else you could at least scare an MP to death by expressing your unwillingness to vote for them at the next election unless they stop this madness! We must all say No! to the faceless bureaucrats and career politicians who would deprive us and future generations from the simple and free pleasure of OUR woodlands.

I’ve gone on a bit, and I’ve probably bored people who don’t give a damn, or annoyed those that inexplicably agree with the sale but, I really don’t care if I have. I don’t care because nature is far more important to me than ruffling someone’s feathers or hurting someone’s feelings. The line has to be drawn somewhere, let’s draw it together. Remember, if enough people speak with one voice they will be heard, they will be listened to!

UPDATE We have won the battle against the sell-offs of our woods and forests but we may lose the war to save our countryside. The Government are still determined to press ahead with their exploitation and destruction of our countryside for the benefit of a rich, powerful elite and big business. They are now proposing via DEFRA a new concept of Biodiversity Offsetting whereby developers (housing and industrial) can come and cut our woods down, fill in ponds and lakes, build on heathland and village greens etc as long as they compensate for it by creating something 'green' to replace that which they destroyed. The thing is, how do you replace an environment that's taken hundreds or thousands of years to develop and grow? How do you uproot a woodland and transpose it to another site as one Tory Minister suggested? Are these people truly clueless, incompetent idiots with regards to nature and the environment? Judging by the statements that come out of their arrogant, condescending mouths, they are. They are prepared to say anything as a smokescreen to hide what they really want and to hide what's being done behind closed doors, even if it makes them seem idiots, as was the case when this government of profiteering parasites changed the planning laws to enable their financial backers, the developers and construction companies, total free rein over our countryside.

Owen Paterson Tory MP (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, supporter of the badger cull and GM foods) and Eric Pickles Tory MP (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, and the man who rubber stamps through any and all planning applications regardless of local opinions) have been working hard behind our backs to ensure that once again they and their supporters get what they want. Yet again the promises of David Cameron have been shown to be lies, just statements to con the public with in order to win votes and stay in power. Whatever happened to the 'Big Society', 'the greenest Party ever', 'local people deciding what's best for their local communities' and God knows how many more shallow sound-bites? There's no point expecting the Liberal Party to do anything, they just keep quiet and hang onto the apron strings of the Tories in a bid to stay in power.

What we as the people of this country want, and what politicians and big business want, are two totally different things, and right now the rich, ivory towered elite of politicians and big business are winning. I wonder what our children and future generations will think of us if we don't stop the destruction of this once beautiful country? They will probably wonder why we chose to watch the X Factor rather than the Axe Factor.

One last thing! DEFRA have announced that they have no money for at least 2 years to plant any more trees, and there are even doubts about whether they'll have any after that. Strange that they have more than enough money to pay gunmen to kill badgers, though!

Is this the venue for the Conservative Party conference next year?

The only police presence in Lancashire

The Tory party and their "Trickle down" ideology - it's not about MONEY [that just can't happen] it refers to SEWAGE in your local river!!!! Some really awful stuff trickling serenely along courtesy of the Tory privatised water companies .....

Two Junior Imperial & Constitutional League (JICL) membership badges who were also known as the Junior Imperial League. These badges came in two sizes and I think the smaller badge is of later manufacture, being less costly. The small size badge comes in its original presentation box with card.

The JICL was formed in 1906 with the aims of creating an interest in politics among young persons aged 15 to 25 years and organised to serve the needs of the Conservative political party. The JICL was an autonomous group within the Conservative Party with its own headquarters. By 1919 women members were admitted and this greatly bolstered the JICL’s membership when at its peak it had over 100,000 in more than 300 branches. A major political theme was Imperial Unity to strengthen links between countries within the British Empire both political and economic. The JICL also had many social functions too.

The JICL was disbanded during WW2 but its work was continued by the Young Britons (Young Conservatives & Unionist Association) founded in 1925 and affiliated to the Conservative political party.

References:

jch.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/8/2/143

www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/cpa/cc... (Conservative Party archives - Bodleian Library, Oxford).

Enamels: 3 (white, red & blue).

Finish: Gilt.

Material: Brass.

Fixer: Buttonhole (horseshoe-shaped clasp).

Sizes: Please see notes in the above pic.

Process: Die stamped.

Maker: W.O. Lewis (Badges) Ltd, Birmingham.

Thank you for reading.

Stuart.

Acid Rabbi is left unimpressed by "the worst Kraftwerk gig he's ever seen" The Leaders' Debate in which Cameron, Brown and Clegg do little of any note.

Health Warning #5: Political Dementia

This headline today stunned me more than flight MH370 being taken over by a hacker, primarily because this one is based on the truth..

Our beloved Chancellor, George Osborne, really believes that millions more middle class people will welcome being taxed at 40% because they will “feel they are joining the aspirational classes and are a success”..!

For fucks sake, What has this guy been smoking?, On what planet does he live?, Tell me what kind of totally moronic, deluded, reality isolated, twit could even begin to think along those lines…?

Nobody LIKES paying tax... And nobody likes paying even more tax than they currently do!

He goes on to say “That means they are more likely to think like Conservatives and vote Conservative”.

George… I got news for you, that little cloud cuckoo land that you seem to live in bears no resemblance to the real world, and you should probably focus your budget on care for sufferers of premature senile dementia, because it looks like you may very well need to depend upon that after the next election…

And this from someone who has always previously voted Conservative...

Full story here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581860/Osborne-People-p...

“The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music”

That's according to compassionate conservatives Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Liz Truss (2012) in their book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained

Dominic Raab (born 1974) is a British Member of Parliament serving as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor since 2021, save for a period from September to October 2022. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher and Walton since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Brexit Secretary in 2018 and First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary from 2019 to 2021.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Raab

CC BY-SA Official portrait of Dominic Raab MP by Richard Townshend on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/5vmu

Within the grounds of Norwich Cathedral.

In the grounds of Norwich Cathedral is this Statue of the Duke of Wellington.

Grade II listed.

Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Norwich - British Listed Buildings

Statue. 1854. Sculptor C.C. Adams. Bronze life-size statue in

civilian dress with cannon resting at his feet. Granite plinth with

"Wellington" inscribed, also a coat of arms. On a pedestal.

Coat of arms on the plinth.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on Wikipedia.

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as the "Duke of Wellington", even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington.

Born in Ireland to a prominent family of Hiberno-Norman origins and Old English culture, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later India where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799.

Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some 60 battles throughout his military career.

He was twice prime minister under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829. He was prime minister from 1828–30 and served briefly in 1834. He was unable to prevent the passage of the Reform Act of 1832 and continued as one of the leading figures in the House of Lords until his retirement. He remained Commander-in-Chief of the British Army until his death.

Within the grounds of Norwich Cathedral.

In the grounds of Norwich Cathedral is this Statue of the Duke of Wellington.

Grade II listed.

Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Norwich - British Listed Buildings

Statue. 1854. Sculptor C.C. Adams. Bronze life-size statue in

civilian dress with cannon resting at his feet. Granite plinth with

"Wellington" inscribed, also a coat of arms. On a pedestal.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on Wikipedia.

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as the "Duke of Wellington", even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington.

Born in Ireland to a prominent family of Hiberno-Norman origins and Old English culture, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later India where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799.

Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some 60 battles throughout his military career.

He was twice prime minister under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829. He was prime minister from 1828–30 and served briefly in 1834. He was unable to prevent the passage of the Reform Act of 1832 and continued as one of the leading figures in the House of Lords until his retirement. He remained Commander-in-Chief of the British Army until his death.

Within the grounds of Norwich Cathedral.

In the grounds of Norwich Cathedral is this Statue of the Duke of Wellington.

Grade II listed.

Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Norwich - British Listed Buildings

Statue. 1854. Sculptor C.C. Adams. Bronze life-size statue in

civilian dress with cannon resting at his feet. Granite plinth with

"Wellington" inscribed, also a coat of arms. On a pedestal.

Coat of arms on the plinth.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on Wikipedia.

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as the "Duke of Wellington", even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington.

Born in Ireland to a prominent family of Hiberno-Norman origins and Old English culture, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later India where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799.

Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some 60 battles throughout his military career.

He was twice prime minister under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829. He was prime minister from 1828–30 and served briefly in 1834. He was unable to prevent the passage of the Reform Act of 1832 and continued as one of the leading figures in the House of Lords until his retirement. He remained Commander-in-Chief of the British Army until his death.

Within the grounds of Norwich Cathedral.

In the grounds of Norwich Cathedral is this Statue of the Duke of Wellington.

Grade II listed.

Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Norwich - British Listed Buildings

Statue. 1854. Sculptor C.C. Adams. Bronze life-size statue in

civilian dress with cannon resting at his feet. Granite plinth with

"Wellington" inscribed, also a coat of arms. On a pedestal.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on Wikipedia.

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as the "Duke of Wellington", even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington.

Born in Ireland to a prominent family of Hiberno-Norman origins and Old English culture, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later India where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799.

Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some 60 battles throughout his military career.

He was twice prime minister under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829. He was prime minister from 1828–30 and served briefly in 1834. He was unable to prevent the passage of the Reform Act of 1832 and continued as one of the leading figures in the House of Lords until his retirement. He remained Commander-in-Chief of the British Army until his death.

Tory leader David Cameron's got a tank full o' lies and he's ready to burn rubber.

London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London

Let's begin with the Tories arriving...

Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.

Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.

The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.

This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.

The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.

The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.

For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com

London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011

In September and October 2022, the government of the United Kingdom, led by the Conservative Party and newly-appointed prime minister, Liz Truss, faced a credibility crisis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2022_United_Kingdom_government_crisis

CC BY-SA Graph of opinion poll results by Ralbegen on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/5rZD

Within the grounds of Norwich Cathedral.

In the grounds of Norwich Cathedral is this Statue of the Duke of Wellington.

Grade II listed.

Statue of the Duke of Wellington, Norwich - British Listed Buildings

Statue. 1854. Sculptor C.C. Adams. Bronze life-size statue in

civilian dress with cannon resting at his feet. Granite plinth with

"Wellington" inscribed, also a coat of arms. On a pedestal.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on Wikipedia.

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. 29 April/1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. He is often referred to as the "Duke of Wellington", even after his death, when there have been subsequent Dukes of Wellington.

Born in Ireland to a prominent family of Hiberno-Norman origins and Old English culture, he was commissioned an ensign in the British Army in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland he was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. A colonel by 1796, Wellesley saw action in the Netherlands and later India where he fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799.

Wellesley rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was granted a dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded the allied army which, with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some 60 battles throughout his military career.

He was twice prime minister under the Tory party and oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829. He was prime minister from 1828–30 and served briefly in 1834. He was unable to prevent the passage of the Reform Act of 1832 and continued as one of the leading figures in the House of Lords until his retirement. He remained Commander-in-Chief of the British Army until his death.

George Osborne, having ripped off the taxpayer for another £5,000, probably isn't going to get more than a slap on the wrist..

According to Rishi Sunak (July 2022) www.ready4rishi.com/launch_speech

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I want to talk about Boris Johnson.

As candidates to replace him, we owe it to the British people who elected Boris as Prime Minister in 2019 to explain why he is leaving office.

There is something wrong about a process that sees a sitting Prime Minister replaced while the people doing the replacing… pull the curtains and act like it’s nobody’s business but theirs.

It’s everybody’s business.

So let me tell you how I see it.

Boris Johnson is one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever met.

And - whatever some commentators may say - he has a good heart.

Did I disagree with him? Frequently.

Is he flawed? Yes - and so are the rest of us.

Was it no longer working? Yes and that’s why I resigned…

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Rishi Sunak (born 1980) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 25 October 2022 and LOctober 2022. Sunak served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorkshire) since 2015. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak

Open Government Licensed portrait of Sunak's first speech as Prime Minster by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street via Wikimediaeader of the Conservative Party since 24 Commons w.wiki/5xQo

Critics have condemned Boris Johnson's writing style as bigotry; in various publications he used the words "piccaninnies" and "watermelon smiles" when referring to Africans, championed European colonialism in Uganda and referred to gay men as "tank-topped bumboys". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

Piccaninny is a word applied originally by people of the West Indies to their babies and more widely referring to small children, as in Melanesian Pidgin. It is a pidgin word form, derived from the Portuguese pequenino. In contrast to this neutral meaning, the word has been used in North America as a racial slur referring to a dark-skinned child of African descent. In modern sensibility, the term can refer to an archaic depiction or caricature used in a derogatory and racist sense. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickaninny

The watermelon stereotype is a stereotype that African Americans have an unusually great appetite for watermelons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype

Bumboy is a derogatory term for homosexual men en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumboy

Open Government Licensed (OGL) portrait of Boris Johnson by Ben Shread / Cabinet Office via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/5yde

For strong and stable leadership and an other decade of Austerity under Maggie Trash and some others ....

Double Dip

Stand Up to Racism candlelit vigil in Whitehall, calling on UK PM David Cameron to do more to help the people suffering in Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War Two.

Photo: RonF

See also -

Refugees Welcome Here - London Demonstration 12 Sept 2015

London demo supporting UN Anti-Racism Day, 21 March 2015

Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.

London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London

Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.

The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.

For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com

London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011

I am informed this badge was issued by the Highland Women's Unionist Association, a political organisation affiliated to the Conservative (Tory) Party. If anyone can confirm this, it would be really appreciated?

From the style of badge and pin, I'd say it's an early issue at least 1920's but possibly pre-WW1. The theme of 'Unity & Empire' was a major policy of the Conservatives during the late Victorian and early 20th century.

Enamels: 3 (white, red & blue).

Finish: Gilt.

Material: Brass.

Fixer: Pin.

Size: 1” x 1” (about 25mm x 25mm).

Process: Die stamped.

Maker: No maker’s name or mark.

Thank you for reading.

Stuart.

Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.

London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London

Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.

The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.

For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com

London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011

Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.

London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London

Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.

The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.

For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com

London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011

Let's meet the Anti-Cuts and Disability Rights campaigners... the victims of the Bankers' unpunished crimes against the people of the World.

London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London

Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.

The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.

For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com

London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011

London Mayor Boris Johnson sneaks in and out of secret Tory Conference as activists protest at the entrance. Hammermith Town Hall, London

Let's begin with the Tories arriving...

Thanks to a leaked email and Twitter the scores of Conservative Party delegates who turned up at Hammersmith Town Hall today for a secret London Regional Conservative Party conference had to run the gauntlet of a small-but-loud picket of protesters who were angry at the severe local funding cuts already implemented by the right-wing Conservative Hammersmith & Fulham Council which has just announced a punitive budget for the next year, slashing front line services to the elderly, the disabled, immigrant support and child protection services.

Hammermith & Fulham's Conservative councillors have gone further than Communities Secretary Eric "Jabba The Hut" Pickles' 11.5% cuts by a further 3.5%. In their last round of budget cuts the council admitted even last year that they were already putting the lives of disabled residents at risk. Last year's cuts are nothing compared to this latest round.

The cuts are already blighting poorer people's lives in the borough, with much, much more to come, yet the council is happily earmarking £35,000,000 for the construction of a 14-storey luxury apartment development for private resale on land which previously hosted a large number of Community Groups and Services.

This conference was also intended to serve as a platform for "Star Turn of the day" London Mayor Boris Johnson to launch his re-election campaign. Johnson, however, sneaked in by a side door to avoid having to listen to people's legitimate complaints and, like a cowardly thief in the night when his speech inside had finished he sneaked out of a disused Service Entrance down the side of the building on his bicycle, refusing to pose for a single photograph. In his haste to escape our cameras he crashed into the kerb, slipped off his saddle (almost crushing his infamously fertile Tory testicles in the process) and almost fell over before wobbling off into the distance like a massive, corn-fed Norman Wisdom and almost crashing into a pedestrian.

The fifty police officers (including a Metropolitan Police catering van) who had to attend this meeting cost around £15,000 for the day according to a senior police officer we spoke to, and bearing this huge cost to the taxpayers it is even more odious that Boris Johnson should sneak in and out of the building specifically to avoid any contact whatsoever with the very Londoners he frequently claims to champion. In fact from the attendees of the conference not a single Conservative politician would engage the crowd - unless you count the unknown individual who got onto the external stairs leading to the conference room and turned round to flick the "V's" at the protesters below.

The police reported that they were very happy with the behaviour of the 100 or so protesters.

For an excellent report on all the services being decimated by Hammersmith & Fulham Council please visit www.thecowanreport.com

London, United Kingdom. 27.02.2011

"Tory proposals may result in delicate operations being performed by a crazed axeman rather than by a doctor," warn experts.

David Cameron outlines Conservative proposals aimed at "revitalising" the British economy:"A little birdy tells me that Greece is on the rock'n'roll. So wot I'm suggestin' is me,Gorgeous George, Hatchet Hague, Boris the Blade and anovver few lads wait outside the IMF and when they come out, we duff 'em over their 'eads and scarper wiv the cash. Oh - and call me Dodgy Dave from now on, alright?"

Private Eye no 1577, July 15th 2022 www.private-eye.co.uk

BORIS JOHNSON MEMORIAL ISSUE 🚽

THE PRIME MINISTER'S LEGACY IN FULL 💩

Stand Up to Racism candlelit vigil in Whitehall, calling on UK PM David Cameron to do more to help the people suffering in Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War Two.

Photo: RonF

See also -

Refugees Welcome Here - London Demonstration 12 Sept 2015

London demo supporting UN Anti-Racism Day, 21 March 2015

Torquemosborne! Chancellor announces £6.2 BILLION spending cuts. If you think THAT'S gonna hurt, just wait until he puts down his scalpel and starts with his axe