@Stuart_Watson Outrageous. Leif was in the wrong but on the ground the player takes a swipe at him with his right leg. Was that booked? With 2 recent dubious penalty decisions, you have to question not only the standard of officiating and lack of retrospective action by PGMOL.
I'm beyond furious 🤬 I’m seething with rage that boils over into pure heartbreak. 💔 My dear friend Dennis Hutchings, a true hero who served 26 years in the British Army including the Life Guards, was hounded to his death by this cruel system. In 2021, at 80 years old, already battling terminal kidney failure, heart disease, and on dialysis, he was dragged to Belfast Crown Court to defend his name over a 1974 incident during the Troubles. Just three days into the trial, he contracted Covid-19, and the stress and ordeal contributed to his death in the Mater Hospital. His lawyer said plainly, he would still be alive today if he hadn't been forced to endure that prosecution. Dennis died fighting to clear his name, while the very government he served turned its back on him.
And now, on January 21, 2026, these same MPs had the gall to vote 373 to 106 to scrap conditional immunity in the Northern Ireland Legacy Act, ripping open the door for more elderly veterans, men like Dennis, to be persecuted decades later for doing their duty! 🤬
At the exact same time, the Armed Forces Bill, introduced just last week, raises the recall age for veterans in the Strategic Reserve from 55 to 65, so they can be yanked back into service for "warlike preparations" amid global threats. Refuse without a valid excuse? You're treated as AWOL or a deserter under the Reserve Forces Act 1996 and Armed Forces Act 2006: arrest, court-martial, fines over £5,000, or up to 2 years in prison (or worse in extreme cases).
Prosecute them to death for the past, like they did to my friend Dennis, then threaten to jail them if they won't fight again in the future? This is not just hypocrisy, it's a vicious, blood-boiling betrayal of the men who gave everything for this country. Dennis deserved honour, peace in his final years, and justice, not a courtroom and a hospital bed as his reward!
How dare they? Our veterans are not disposable. They are heroes. This ends now, or we shame ourselves forever.
Rest in peace, Dennis 🙏 you fought the good fight to the end. 😞 We won't forget, and we won't forgive this outrage! 🤬🇬🇧
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This is exactly what it was like growing up in the 1980s.
I don’t think we realised how good it was for children. Children have so much oversight and monitoring today.
In 1987, at Loughgall - the greatest single defeat of the IRA by the SAS - eight heavily armed IRA murderers attacked Loughgall police station with a 400-pound bomb and automatic weapons. The SAS shot the eight terrorists dead.
One of the IRA members killed was Patrick Kelly. Intelligence linked Kelly personally to at least five killings, including the murders of two UDR soldiers.
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, has now promised a sister of this same terrorist a new inquest into the events at Loughgall.
One of Patrick Kelly's family have said, "I have never denied that my brother went out to blow up a barracks…. but they were unmanned barracks. He went out to blow up, not to kill."
This is absurd. Immediately after the bomb detonated, they fired battlefield-calibre weapons at the building, no doubt in the expectation of killing any policeman who emerged.
We should not be facilitating attempts to rewrite history by the IRA at the expense of our veterans.
I sat through two hours of lunacy this afternoon. And watched 15 minutes of this guy just now.
The difference is night and day.
If you want to understand the long-term damage Donald Trump is doing to our country, it’s worth your time.
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Celebrating 361 years of the Royal Marines.
@nectar hi there. I got 109 bonus nectar points today but the printer at Sainsbury’s means you cannot read it so I can’t scan the code et the checkout. Can you help?
Just some of the great prizes in our Xmas funday raffle/auction in aid of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices E.A.C.H.
Don't miss out Nov 29 at the Red Lion, Ipswich.
Music entertainment in the evening also to kick start Christmas in !