These are the Accrington Pals — the 11th East Lancashire Regiment — marching through Accrington on 1 August 1915.
Local lads, mates from the same streets and mills, marching off proud as punch with the whole town watching. That was the Pals idea: fight alongside the men you grew up with.
Less than a year later, on the first day of the Somme at Serre, roughly 720 of them went over the top. In just 30–40 minutes, around 585 were casualties — killed, wounded or missing. Whole rows of houses in Accrington lost their sons and brothers in one morning.
That’s what “community” used to cost when men still had duty and backbone.
Lest we forget the real price of that war — and the stock we came from.
#AccringtonPals #Lancashire #LestWeForget
Who is Basil the Great? (A repeated plagiariser)
He’s a Restore promoter
Elon Musk has retweeted him
Once I pointed out Basil is a plagiariser and his avatar mate Hazel Appleyard defended him.
Who are these people?
@elonmusk By the time we're slinging antimatter across the stars, the most advanced civilisation in the galaxy will just be trading in good old ££ lbs again.
•One £ for the energy
•One £ for the mass
•And the lbs? That's just the payload
Back to the imperial future. 🇬🇧
@JaneSparkleFire@BBCNews I'd rather show the Pope a rope and holler, "Will no one rid me of these meddlesome priests?" "Drop the poncy, pious pretence that money can buy faith"? Try the Chapel lifestyle instead 🤷😇🏴
If i were a preacher I'd be in my little chapel saying -
"Brethren and sistren of the old mill towns... Listen 'ere. Christianity had its Reformation — we split from the corrupt, we built these chapels with our own hands while the parish priests were still bowing to London. Independence. Family discipline. Self-reliance. That's what made Burnley, Blackburn, Accrington what they were. We didn't beg. We didn't kneel to outside authority. We sang hymns that put iron in the soul and we worked the looms like our forefathers worked the land. But now? Now we've got a cult in our midst that never reformed. Supremacism baked into the texts, Ummah solidarity for every victimhood sob story, and 'not all' every time the grooming gangs or the scandals hit the papers. Rotherham. Rochdale. Thousands of our lasses. Systematic. Ethnic. Cultural. And we're told to shut our mouths and celebrate 'diversity'. Abolish it before you chirp your shite! Our King can choose his school — why the hell are we funding Islamic schools that aren't fit for British soil? Get rid of this turbulent madness unless it's to pay reparations to the English white factory and farm slaves who built this country for four thousand years of blood and graft! Some of us would be owed a fair bit, I reckon. Blair, Brown, now Burnham — the three B's of bastards. Talking reindustrialisation while the old shafts are concreted up and our grandads' lands lie idle. I'll fetch the plug out meself, lads, but we all know it ain't happening while they're importing corner-shop 'highly skilled' workers and filling rooms for the smack, crack, coke brigade. Thugs and bullies. Paid agitators. Family First. Cultural memory. Straight talking. That's the old nonconformist spirit. That's Lancashire. That's England worth saving. No more pearl-clutching. No more sacred cows. Amen — and if England win the World Cup on diversity alone, it'll be a horror story they'll proclaim from every minaret!"
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The vape shop on your high street may be a front for money laundering, drug peddling, or immigration fraud.
Criminal gangs use shops like these to support their business model.
Stop illegal immigration. Destroy the criminal gangs. Save the high street.
@PolitlcsUK Burnham talking reindustrialisation... I'll get the concrete plug out the old shaft on me grandad's land then lads! 😂 (We all know it ain't happening)
When I got arrested for Nazi Pug, I got held in jail until my court date due to the "serious nature" of my "offence".
But the guy who threw a toddler into a crocodile enclosure to try and have him ripped limb from limb has already been bailed the very next day.
Clown country.
Most grooming gang offenders are already serving absurdly short jail sentences, given their horrific crimes.
The idea of these vile men being let out after serving just a third of their sentence is completely insulting.
No early release for grooming gang offenders. Ever.