Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
do you have any recommendations for reading about him?
Mountbatten's role in '68 plot against Harold Wilson.
- Thread starter cupid_stunt
- Start date
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
That was certainly not my experience.
A school friend who joined the army on the same day as me was killed that day at Warrenpoint.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
flyingcolumn
Active Member
On the shores with remote controllers stood the brave men of the I.R.A
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
The late 60/early 70's was a febrile time and coup rumours by the military and ruling class were common. But it wasn't against the Government per se, it was a widespread concern about the power and agency of the organised working class.
It's hard to conceive now but the gap between rich and poor was narrowing to a record low,
there were union strategies that significantly increased pay, terms and conditions and working class power in the workplace. In fact the debate was about control and ownership not agency.
Add in Labour plans to extend state intervention in the commanding sections of the economy, some moral panics about young people with disposable income, an IRA campaign and the Angry Brigade and there was a sense that a firm military crackdown was needed to ‘stop the rot’
I mention all of this for two reasons, 1, it's well worth anyone interested in transformative politics reading more about and 2, because if a Corbyn government came to power you could see these types of rumblings emanate from the media and other establishment circles again in any number of foreseeable circumstances like civil unrest, economic turbulence or a sense that Corbyn wasn't being tough enough militarily.
Last edited:
I can’t get over how stupid he was. Surely all but the most entitled, arrogant pricks would see the mistake/s he was making a mile off.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh but the more entitled and arrogant the cunt the less they think they'll make mistakes
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
IRA and bravery must be the ultimate oxymoron.
IRA, cowardly murdering verminous scum, is a better descriptor.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
They weren't cowards, it takes guts to starve yourself to death in protest against a regime that you know won't give in.
And given the oppression they were reacting against are you sure you wouldn't have reacted similarly had you be born a working class Catholic in Belfast or Derry
Last edited:
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Amadán.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
A hundred IRAs wouldn't come close to Mountbatten's body count.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Pretty sure some dead IRA volunteers were saluted by the British army in the earlier days of the war.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Not brave: fighting the British army and hunger strikes
Brave: fingering Rudolf Hess for the queen's shilling
Brave: fingering Rudolf Hess for the queen's shilling
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
Were you off on your holiers? And came back just in time...
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Fuck the IRA, fuck the Protestant terrorists, and fuck their their supporters. Pure undiluted filth.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Brave: Noncing little boys.
Not brave: Fighting and dying to free your country from oppression.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Whatever. Brave boys the IRA, murdering an old man, an old woman and two children. Real heroes.
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
You forgot some others...
The British Army and the RUC who colluded with terrorist groups such as the UVF, UDA and UFF in order to maim and kill old and young men and women...and children too. Who happened to be Catholic.
Miss last night's exposé on Collusion? Here are 10 things we learned
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Were you asleep when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed Irish civilians, (killing 14 of them) in January 1972?Whatever. Brave boys the IRA, murdering an old man, an old woman and two children. Real heroes.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
They protected and supported their assets within Republican forces too. However many deaths they had on their hands
'Proof to prosecute' in Stakeknife probe
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Tune
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
My Grandad's original battalion of the L.I. before he joined the Paras, got stuck with post-war to Partition. Whereas previous Viceroys were diplomats or former General Staff, whom knew how to seek and listen to advice, Battenburg was fond of just chucking men and materiel at problems. He was loathed by many of the men he put in harm's way, and as I'm sure you're aware, regts have long memories for that sort of shit.
Sorry about your friend, but it doesn't change the fact that Battenburg was a typical aristo cunt, with none of the Duke of Ed's mediocre talent for command.
I'll just leave this here. Fuck him, the old nonce. May he rot in hell.
A KINCORA BOY ABUSED BY MOUNTBATTEN COMMITTED SUICIDE A FEW MONTHS LATER
A KINCORA BOY ABUSED BY MOUNTBATTEN COMMITTED SUICIDE A FEW MONTHS LATER
They wouldn't exist but for the British state and it's occupation of northern Ireland.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
I'd have preferred they didn't blow the old bastard up. He could have been put on trial.
But just to stay in the spirit of things, tiocfaidh ar la.
But just to stay in the spirit of things, tiocfaidh ar la.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Not like those brave heroes from the Parachute Regiment who happily shot the fuck out of 13 civilians.
We laughed our arses off at Mountbatten and shed no tears for paras
Similar threads
- Poll
