His father once told him, “Son, farming is in your blood.” 🌾
He believed it with everything he had.
At 26 he took over the family farm — young, hopeful, and ready to work harder than anyone who came before him.
He kept that promise for fifteen years.
Now he’s 41 and looks a decade older.
His hands are split and calloused from the cold. His back seizes up every morning before the day even starts. He’s missed birthdays, school plays, family dinners and anniversaries that can never be replayed.
Every Sunday night his wife does the accounts at the kitchen table.
Last Sunday she sat there for a long time without speaking.
Then she looked up.
“We’re forty thousand pounds down this year.”
After fifteen years of early mornings and late nights, diesel has doubled, fertiliser is up 60%, electricity has tripled… and the price he receives for his wheat is almost exactly what it was in 2015.
He is not lazy.
He is not incompetent.
He is not failing.
The system is failing him.
And every Sunday night his wife still sits at that same table, staring at numbers that only ever seem to get worse.
How long before Britain loses an entire generation of farmers who simply can’t afford to carry on?
Cape Verde that has the same population as Edinburgh sealed a last 32 spot which kills the ‘small population’ argument
Haiti scored more goals than us
Jordan had more attempts on target than us
AND there are still morons in the media defending Steve Clarke
You can now read the Rape Gang Inquiry report on the link below.
https://t.co/Cq2wvRLD4F
From Scotland to London, children were raped, trafficked, tortured, and murdered.
Children as young as four years old were passed on and sold by their own mothers to men to be raped.
Children endured decades of trafficking, filmed blackmail, "red rooms" of torture, animal rape, and witnessed murders of other girls. They were subjected to extreme violence including penetration by objects, strangulation, and backstreet abortions.
Pure evil has been allowed to continue since as early as the 1950s. The majority of perpetrators were Muslim men, and the people paid to protect these children didn’t just turn a blind eye; some were directly involved in the abuse and rape.
As we head into Stage 3 of the inquiry, we will be naming those individuals involved and pursuing private prosecutions.
So far, the inquiry has held two weeks of hearings in London, initiated multiple criminal investigations, taken legal action against dozens of services, collected files and evidence, and continues to give survivors and families a platform.
Some survivors are still being ignored and waiting for investigations to open. The NCA have still not responded to us and the interest of the NPCC is to safeguard the people we intend to name.
I would like to thank MP Rupert Lowe for starting the inquiry, our team, all participants, the donors who made this possible, and, of course, the public for supporting us.
Our work is far from over.
You absolutely disgust me. Hundreds of thousands of children were targeted- they were raped, tortured, trafficked, criminalised, impregnated, murdered, and it was all completely covered up, yet you come out with this shit. It’s because of people like you that it got covered up in the first place. You absolute first-class wanker.
Those scumbags who subjected a 13-month-old baby boy in their care to physical, sexual and emotional abuse during the final four months of his life should be put to death.
A child sexually abused and murdered.
Dying after facing months of physical and sexual abuse from grown men.
With the British people's approval, a Restore Britain Government would put them to death.
Why keep these men alive? For what end? Costing tens of thousands of pounds a year? Who benefits?
They tortured a baby.
There is no redemption, there can never be redemption.
End them.
⚡🇬🇧 Rupert Lowe: “We must ban foreigners from claiming benefits and immediately deport migrants who cannot financially support themselves.”
“Those billions saved? Slash taxes for the British workers and families who actually keep this country running.”
Restore Britain
As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.
A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.
This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.
In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.
But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”
British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?
We genuinely do not understand this.
Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach
On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:
The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.
He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.
After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.
Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.
He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.
When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”
Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.
Today we remember Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly OBE RN, the Royal Navy doctor who became one of the most respected medical officers in British military history and the only serviceman from the Falklands War to be decorated by both Britain and Argentina.
Richard Tadeusz “Rick” Jolly was born in Hong Kong in 1946 to Polish parents who had endured Japanese internment during the Second World War.
Educated at Stonyhurst College, he went on to study medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, qualifying as a doctor in 1969. After working as a junior doctor, he joined the Royal Navy in 1972, beginning a career that would eventually place him at the centre of one of Britain’s most famous military campaigns.
During his naval service, Jolly served with the Royal Marines, the Fleet Air Arm and in a variety of operational and training appointments. One of his most important pre-war roles was as Medical Officer to 42 Commando Royal Marines, gaining invaluable experience in field medicine and operational deployments.
By 1982 he was serving as the Senior Medical Officer of 3 Commando Brigade, responsible for the medical support of thousands of Royal Marines and soldiers deployed to the South Atlantic.
During the Falklands War, Jolly established and commanded the field hospital at Ajax Bay, housed inside a disused refrigeration plant overlooking San Carlos Water. The hospital quickly became known as the “Red and Green Life Machine”, named after the colours of the Royal Marines and Army personnel serving there. Working under constant pressure, often with limited supplies and under the threat of Argentine air attack, Jolly and his team treated more than 1,000 casualties, including around 300 Argentine wounded.
Remarkably, of the 580 British battle casualties who reached Ajax Bay alive, only three later died and none died under Jolly’s direct care. Friend and foe alike received the same treatment, earning the respect of everyone who passed through the hospital.
For his actions during the campaign, Rick Jolly was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Years later, the Argentine government learned just how many of their soldiers had survived because of the work carried out at Ajax Bay.
In 1999, they awarded him the Order of May, one of Argentina’s highest honours. This made him the only veteran of the Falklands War to be officially decorated by both sides of the conflict. When he sought permission from Queen Elizabeth II to wear the Argentine medal, she personally approved the request.
Jolly remained in the Royal Navy until 1996, retiring as a Surgeon Captain after 24 years of service. In retirement he became a passionate advocate for veterans, helping to found the South Atlantic Medal Association and campaigning for greater recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among former servicemen and women. He also wrote several books, including The Red and Green Life Machine, which remains one of the most important first-hand accounts of medical operations during the Falklands War.
Surgeon Captain Rick Jolly died on 13 January 2018 at the age of 71. His legacy endures not only through the hundreds of lives he helped save but through the example he set of professionalism, courage and humanity in war.
In a conflict defined by bravery on land, sea and air, Rick Jolly proved that sometimes the greatest act of service is not taking life but preserving it.
Courtesy of FactSlap
Borrowed from Facebook.
This is Rebecca Goodwin
She was raped. She reported it. She even handed in a 7 minute recording of her sexual assault. Police said it was insufficient evidence.
Fearing he would target others, she exposed the man publicly. Out of fear, he handed himself in and was remanded.
But on appeal, he was released. He is now bailed until a court date in 2027.
Rebecca has been failed. Women across this country are failed daily. We ask why women don’t report? This is why.
Violence against women is a pandemic, nationally and locally. #EndDomesticAbuse
It’s only right to say that Hearts had some terrible decisions go their way and Celtic had some terrible ones go against them but everything about the Kyziridis and Nicholson incidents is even wilder now that we’ve heard the ‘communication’ and Willie Collum’s ‘explanation’.
MORE SCOTTISH CORRUPTION❌
VAR literally says it’s a penalty due to contact & the referee decides to ignore them😱
Hearts drew this game 1-1, what a disgrace this is!😡