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The "Waitrose" Revolution: martial law to be declared in case of a no deal, apparently.

and of course there's council employees

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The less said about certain raf officers choice in pet names the better.

Its the army 16 hours on 8 off is a thing :(.

G4S will Halp I. E. Get a huge contract completely fuck it up while squaddies are voluntold to clear up the mess.

While a certain dashing artillery officer will position his battery on the outskirts of Padstow to prevent an invasion*

* totally not avoiding any bone jobs while being in convinent range of a nice restaurant.
 
So there's round about 108,000 people in the army including reservists. Around 12,500 deployed abroad, so of the regular army there's about 69,000 who could do martial law stuff in the UK. There are 69 cities in the UK. So that's about 1,000-1,500 troops per city - assuming all troops deployed evenly - and 300-500 available at any one time assuming 3 "shifts". There's no way this could carry on for long, and if they shoot someone dead it'd light a blue touch paper

During the Duggan Riots I went up the road to Peckham to check out the action... There's a largish Tesco Express near the Rye and standing outside the front doors was a single nervous looking policeman... On the other side of the road a long row of 40 or so peckhamites...waiting. Bizarre stand off that warranted a Morricone soundtrack. Really captured the sense of how outnumbered the police are when it comes to the crunch.
 
During the Duggan Riots I went up the road to Peckham to check out the action... There's a largish Tesco Express near the Rye and standing outside the front doors was a single nervous looking policeman... On the other side of the road a long row of 40 or so peckhamites...waiting. Bizarre stand off that warranted a Morricone soundtrack. Really captured the sense of how outnumbered the police are when it comes to the crunch.
One cop for every 540 people.
 
Not quite sure how the army on the streets thing will work round here. There are vast training grounds that are open to the public for dog walking and so on and the squaddies are under strict orders to be polite to the locals and to keep the language cleaner than normal. "You're not in North Yorkshire now." is mentioned to them...
 
that tends to work poorly
Once spent an hour looking for a blank firing anti-personnel mine that let off a smoke bomb when triggered only problem unlike a real mine the fuze needed a Heffalump to set the wretched thing off completely defeating any training value said item had but being a starred item couldnt be lost.
dog walker managed to step on the mine and set it off ,being a rather large woman was not impressed when somebody ran up and said " thank fuck you were heavy enough to set it off we've been looking for it for ages":).
He got slapped and she was serenaded off the training area to a chorus of nellie the elephant.
Unfortunately she complained and the assault pioneers got to spend the weekend painting walls:(
 
Recently walked on Hankley Common (walk there a lot) and they were doing excercises, right next to ridge path I was on, blattting away with their guns, fucking scary being so close to it all even though they are blanks. Then a Hercules type thing appears and a tank drops out the back, was quite surreal.

Couple of weeks later was walking back to the car park when a bunch of squaddies came towards me all cammoed up, surprisingly effective, they were silent and doing that silent shit wiggling their hands, then diving to the floor and almost vanishing, all very clever. But one tip; don't lay on the floor within 50 metres of a dog walking car park, unless you are in to scat.
 
How TF can they hunger strike if the quinoa's all stacked up in Calais?

They have a very good farmer’s market in Warminster so I’m told. Surely they will source locally grown organic food from there for the Centre Parcs guests? These are good people not criminals, surely?
 
It's a psuedocereal. It looks like onee but it's actually the seeds of a spinach related plant.

And what's wrong with millet, oats and rice?
It's gluten-free, high in protein and one of the few plant foods that contain all nine essential amino acids. It is also high in fiber (sic), magnesium, B vitamins, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin E and various beneficial antioxidants....apparently.
 
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