It's back, BBC showed the beginnings of a new camp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis McColl
Immigrants block motorways with fire in order to stop lorries UK bound.
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It's back, BBC showed the beginnings of a new camp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis McColl
Immigrants block motorways with fire in order to stop lorries UK bound.
#95 Churchill stood alone, I see you are re writing history again Cappy , only reason we are not all speaking German today is because of the Americans.
lewis when did the yanks come into the war ........all male members and kin of mine were in uniform ......ONE AT DUNKIRK .....ONE IN LANCASTERS WASHING OUT BODY PARTS after the french buckled again THREE TORPEDOED OR MINED....ONE TAKING A KRAUT OUT WITH A KNIFE ...and knowing my family we would have fought them in the hills streets and never surrendered as winston said ......perhaps you should look at history .....HOW MANY FOR LUNCH HERR HITLER......YES WE HAVE MANY JEWS HERR HITLER HERE IS THE LIST ALONG WITH THE WINE LIST AND MENU HERR HITLER...... JEEZ LEWIS GET A LIFE..... ...perhaps sowing bad feeling is your goal .....better spent elswhere me thinks cappy
###the americans were not our saviours lewis the RAF at that stage stopped the krauts dead in there tracks by having the channel in there hands....after the london blitzhitler was scared to come over for the fear of the RAF......he turned to russia and got his 1000 year reich kicked into oblivion.....the yanks gave us the tools to finish the job ......while hitlers U boats hung of the west coast of ireland and even went ashore at night to be welcomed by the irish happy to do businness with them.......a blot of shame on the irish.......who no doubt had england fallen have been next on the list cappyQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis McColl
##thats why merkel lets them in to build a fighting force of immigrants at what will be our border once we have brexited...... happily aided of course by the frogs cappyQuote:
Originally Posted by vic mcclymont
Well I could say the same to you about your red tinted glasses that make everything in your left wing world look rosey, TMQuote:
Originally Posted by Lewis McColl
was Home Secretary from 2010 -2016, she saw an unprecedented amount of people arrive in Europe and very many of them
were/are determined to enter the UK so your statement is a little unfair. I've seen two or three times in the media that they
are now returning to Calais in the hope of getting into the UK, can you imagine Corbyn and his lot being in government, the
word would spread like wildfire through the migrant camps in Europe that the streets of the UK are truly paved with gold now
their savior was in charge, it doesn't bear thinking about but of course you won't be here will you?? you'll be laughing your
socks off in France, I've said more than once "I'm not loyal to any political party" I am voting Tory for Brexit purposes so, no
I don't wear blue tinted glasses. Two or three weeks ago you quite rudely told a couple of members "if you don't like my posts
ignore them" you also said "you lot are so easy to reel in", well you won't reel me in, the only reason I answered your post was
courtesy as I do not like to ignore people "it's bad manners", I said to you before you seem to get your kicks out of winding
people up, well if that rings your bell, good luck, but leave me out of it, have a nice day. John F
No Cappy unlike you I actually do a lot of reading , the Americans gave us the tools to finish the job, so the D Day landings had nothing to do with the Americans.
The Irish Mercantile Marine during World War II continued essential overseas trade in the conflict, a period referred to as The Long Watch by Irish mariners.[1][note 3]
Irish merchant shipping saw to it that vital imports continued to arrive and exports, mainly food supplies to Great Britain, were delivered. Irish ships sailed unarmed and usually alone, identifying themselves as neutrals with bright lights and by painting the Irish tricolour and EIRE[note 4] in large letters on their sides and decks.[2] Nonetheless twenty percent of seamen serving in Irish ships perished, victims of a war not their own: attacked by both sides, though predominantly by the Axis powers.[citation needed] Often, Allied convoys could not stop to pick up survivors,[3][4] while Irish ships always answered SOS signals and stopped to rescue survivors, irrespective of which side they belonged to. Irish ships rescued 534 seamen.[note 5]
At the outbreak of World War II, known as "The Emergency",[note 6] Ireland declared neutrality and became isolated as never before.[9] Shipping had been neglected since the Irish War of Independence. Foreign ships, on which Ireland's trade had hitherto depended, were less available; neutral American ships would not enter the "war zone". In his Saint Patrick's Day address in 1940, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Éamon de Valera lamented:
"No country had ever been more effectively blockaded because of the activities of belligerents and our lack of ships..."
Ireland was a net food exporter. The excess was shipped to Britain. The Irish Mercantile Marine ensured that Irish agricultural, and other, exports reached Britain, and that British coal arrived in Ireland. Some foods such as wheat, citric fruits and tea were imported. Ireland depended on, mainly, British tankers for petroleum.[note 7] Initially Irish ships sailed in British convoys. In the light of experience they chose to sail alone, relying on their neutral markings. German respect for that neutrality varied from friendly to tragic.
"Cross-channel" trade, between Ireland and Britain, was from both national perspectives, the most important Irish trade route. Irish ships crossed the Atlantic on a route defined by the Allies: a line from Fastnet Rock to the Azores and then along the line of latitude at 38° North.[10] Ships on the "Lisbon-run", imported wheat and fruits from Spain and Portugal, as well as goods transhipped from the Americas. They followed the line of longitude at 12° West, while Allied convoys to Gibraltar were 20° West.[11]
There were never more than 800 men, at any one time, serving on Irish ships in the war.[12.
Thousands of Irish men joined the British armed forces during ww2 and paid a heavy price for doing so, sadly in there homeland they were blacklisted from gaining employment after the war. Also in N Ireland there was no such thing as conscription everyone was a volunteer. The Irish have always readily joined the British forces and still to this day can hold the Queens commission.
During the Belfast Blitz Lord Carson contacted Dublin and asked for fire tenders to be sent to help. Dublin sent help and three days later the Germans bombed Dublin. So did the Irish actually back the Germans in the ww2, I think not.
#107, The IRA took full advantage of the UK in 1916 Lewis during WW1 knowing British soldiers were deployed
elsewhere. They did the same in 1939 when the IRA bombed Coventry see link below: What's that saying? ''All is fair in love and war'' I stand to be corrected of course but didn't America participate only after Pearl Harbour?
Coventry IRA bombing: The 'forgotten' attack on a British city - BBC News
Coventry IRA bombing: The 'forgotten' attack on a British city - BBC News
I do though acknowledge with the utmost respect anyone who lost their life or were injured fighting to defend Gt. Britain in any war regardless of their country of birth, that's a given.
If anyone is interested, Theresa May has agreed to meet Jeremy Corbyn for a question time special:
tonight BBC 1 at 20:30, they've both got all to play for so could be worth a watch, cheers John F
john what can she say does corbyn want her to spill every plan she has got to take us and deal the other side of the eu? be like cards up in poker she has a plan she must? it would be like Churchill telling all plans months ahead why cant they work for the country not against it let her do her job labour can wait a couple of years by that time they could get their sh.t together? jp