phil oakey

F1 nut and @Silverstone uk volunteer

[Blonde Bigot @BlondeBigot11]

“It’s just a small ceremonial sword”

Imagine if it was White guys running around like this.

[Rush @exRAF_Al]

I am a monarchist, but the current lot have lost me. There is one exception, Princess Anne. Forthright and unflinching, direct and unvarnished, even when the IRA trying to kidnap her. Here she is passing her umbrella to a Dean because she had a hat and the Dean didn’t. Brilliant.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

When MICHAEL CAINE told his cleaning-lady mother he'd earned a million pounds for a film, she asked "How much is that?”

His answer changed her life forever.

"It means, Mum, that you’ll never have to work again. You won't have to clean or worry anymore.”

[LH44(A) @LH44Fanpage8]

George Russell helping jack (Toto wolf son) getting all the driver signature is the cutest thing ever 🥺❤️

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

D-Day: Invasion of Normandy [Real Footage in Colour]

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9:32 AM to the British public.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

1930 Bentley Speed Six

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

6 June 1944. The 24,970 American troops who landed on Omaha Beach were met with the fiercest resistance on all the 5 beaches, but they fought their way off the beach. The Omaha Beach landing featured in the films The Longest Day and Saving Private Ryan.

[Clean Up Britain @cleanupbritain]

Virtually all the exits to Britain's motorway service stations look this. What's wrong with us in this country? No other west European countries are as run-down, filthy and littered as Britain... we need to turn the tide of decline. Pride and respect should never go out of fashion.

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

Britain once stood alone and refused to give in. 🇬🇧

Do we still have that same spirit today?

[Paul @Paulrestore]

Despised

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Bank of England axes Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen from future banknotes after being told they are not “representative of the UK’s cultural and natural diversity”

The decision was made as part of the redesign of new polymer notes.

Officials were advised that the three historic figures do not reflect modern Britain’s diversity.

Churchill featured on the £5 note, Turing on the £50 note, and Austen on the £10 note.

The move has triggered fury from historians and politicians who called it an attempt to rewrite British history.

The Bank of England has confirmed the three will not feature on any forthcoming notes.

Thoughts?

[aileen B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AileenBart60380]

EXACTLY 💯

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the night of June 5, 1944, Eisenhower stood on a tarmac in England and watched 13,000 paratroopers board their planes.

He already knew what Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory had told him in private: up to half of them might not survive the night. 6,500 men. Dead before a single soldier touched the beach. Eisenhower had approved the mission anyway, called the decision "soul-wracking," and said nothing to the men.

Instead he drove out and visited them.

He chatted. Laughed. Asked where they were from. Shook hands. Cracked jokes. Not one of them knew their general had just signed what might be their death warrant.

When the last plane disappeared into the dark sky, his driver Kay Summersby looked over at him.

There were tears running down his face.

He drove back to Telegraph Cottage in silence. Then he sat down, picked up a pencil, and wrote a note he prayed no one would ever read.

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

Look at what he edited.

He had first written "This particular operation." He crossed it out and replaced it with "My decision to attack." Then he pressed the pencil down hard and drew a long, firm line under the words "mine alone."

He misdated it July 5 instead of June 5.

He was so consumed with dread he had forgotten what month it was.

He folded the note and put it in his wallet. He carried it there as 156,000 men stormed the beaches of Normandy. When word came back that the beachhead had held, he took it out, crumpled it, and threw it in the trash.

An aide quietly pulled it out and saved it.

That note is now behind glass at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. You can still see where the pencil pressed hardest.

Right under the words "mine alone."

82 years ago tonight.

[HJB News @HJB_News__]

Keir Starmer: “you will feel the full force of the law” Shame, those Muslim brothers at Manchester airport didn’t.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1944, 150,000 Allied soldiers are being loaded onto ships all across southern England. Tomorrow, they'll take part in history's greatest invasion.

“At that time, we didn't know it was D-Day," one veteran would later recall. "We just knew we had a job to do.”

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

5 June 1963. Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigned after admitting he had lied to parliament about the nature of his relationship with model Christine Keeler. On 22 March 1963, Profumo had said: “There was no impropriety whatever in my acquaintance with Miss Keeler.”

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Luke Salmons was suspended for six months then forced to resign & was put on a police barring list for questioning radical Islam in a Police training session.

More Police need to speak out.