Mountbatten's role in '68 plot against Harold Wilson.

[Pickman's model]

He fucked up the day he boarded his boat!

Always made me laugh how many squaddies took the piss about Mountbatten. The media thought that the services loved the old cunt, but frankly most of my mates had more sympathy for the teenager that died, than for Louis Battenburg.

do you have any recommendations for reading about him?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Bag of Bollocks.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Always made me laugh how many squaddies took the piss about Mountbatten. The media thought that the services loved the old cunt, but frankly most of my mates had more sympathy for the teenager that died, than for Louis Battenburg.

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]

The Day Mountbatten Died
9pm, BBC Two
Director Sam Collyns’s powerful film about the events surrounding the IRA’s assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten in Sligo in August 1979 is a respectful masterpiece, which uses Mountbatten’s death as a springboard to discuss the other lives taken by the terrorists that fateful day in revenge for Bloody Sunday: three others aboard his boat Shadow V and 18 British soldiers murdered in Northern Ireland. Friends, relations, military commanders and even former IRA men tell the dreadful tale.

TV tonight: a masterpiece on the assassination of Lord Mountbatten

 

[TopCat]

All I want to add to this thread is that I celebrated hugely when that cunt got blown up.

 

[flyingcolumn]

On the shores with remote controllers stood the brave men of the I.R.A

 

[Smokeandsteam]

This makes for an interesting read.



Revealed: Full extent of Lord Mountbatten's role in '68 plot against Harold Wilson (not behind their paywall)

WTF were they thinking?

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.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

All I want to add to this thread is that I celebrated hugely when that cunt got blown up.

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]

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.

Yeh but the more entitled and arrogant the cunt the less they think they'll make mistakes

 

[Sasaferrato]

On the shores with remote controllers stood the brave men of the I.R.A

IRA and bravery must be the ultimate oxymoron.

IRA, cowardly murdering verminous scum, is a better descriptor.

 

[tim]

IRA and bravery must be the ultimate oxymoron.

IRA, cowardly murdering verminous scum, is a better descriptor.

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

 

[Idris2002]

On the shores with remote controllers stood the brave men of the I.R.A

Amadán.

 

[SpookyFrank]

IRA and bravery must be the ultimate oxymoron.

IRA, cowardly murdering verminous scum, is a better descriptor.

A hundred IRAs wouldn't come close to Mountbatten's body count.

 

[planetgeli]

IRA and bravery must be the ultimate oxymoron.

IRA, cowardly murdering verminous scum, is a better descriptor.

Pretty sure some dead IRA volunteers were saluted by the British army in the earlier days of the war.

 

[Sasaferrato]

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

I'm simply going to ignore this risible post. I have made my position clear, search if it is of any interest to you, or don't. I really couldn't care less.

 

[Saul Goodman]

IRA and bravery must be the ultimate oxymoron.

IRA, cowardly murdering verminous scum, is a better descriptor.

Awww, bless.

Considering your age, you're not very clued up, are you.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Not brave: fighting the British army and hunger strikes
Brave: fingering Rudolf Hess for the queen's shilling

 

[Baronage-Phase]

On the shores with remote controllers stood the brave men of the I.R.A

Were you off on your holiers? And came back just in time...

 

[Sasaferrato]

Fuck the IRA, fuck the Protestant terrorists, and fuck their their supporters. Pure undiluted filth.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Not brave: fighting the British army and hunger strikes
Brave: fingering Rudolf Hess for the queen's shilling

Brave: Noncing little boys.
Not brave: Fighting and dying to free your country from oppression.

 

[Sasaferrato]

A hundred IRAs wouldn't come close to Mountbatten's body count.

Whatever. Brave boys the IRA, murdering an old man, an old woman and two children. Real heroes.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Fuck the IRA, fuck the Protestant terrorists, and fuck their their supporters. Pure undiluted filth.

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]

Whatever. Brave boys the IRA, murdering an old man, an old woman and two children. Real heroes.

Were you asleep when British soldiers shot 28 unarmed Irish civilians, (killing 14 of them) in January 1972?

 

[tim]

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

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]

Bombs Over Baghdad.

Tune

 

[ViolentPanda]

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.

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.

 

[LiamO]

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

 

[Poi E]

Fuck the IRA, fuck the Protestant terrorists, and fuck their their supporters. Pure undiluted filth.

They wouldn't exist but for the British state and it's occupation of northern Ireland.

 

[krtek a houby]

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.

 

[nogojones]

IRA and bravery must be the ultimate oxymoron.

IRA, cowardly murdering verminous scum, is a better descriptor.

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