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By Tubby Isaacs
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Funnily enough a load of ours disappeared during that 18 months. I can almost guarantee that nobody remotely credits the Labour Government for that.
By Oboogie
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Spoonman wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 4:12 pm I see Ms "I don't make mistakes" decided it was a good idea to promote the UK armed forces on Xitter by using footage from Bloody Sunday of all things. :shock:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l2gnvd0lgo

She quickly took it down, but not before enough people noticed.
I just came here to post that, she really is having a good go at alienating the entire electorate, one demographic at a time.
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By Spoonman
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Oboogie wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 4:55 pmI just came here to post that, she really is having a good go at alienating the entire electorate, one demographic at a time.
In fairness, a Venn Diagram where you have Conservative NI supporters in one circle and those supporting the victims of Bloody Sunday in another would barely overlap the edges.

Still, a tone deaf thing for a leader of a major political party to do especially as one of her predecessors while PM was the one whom stood up and apologised in the Commons for the incidents.
By Bones McCoy
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Malcolm Armsteen wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 5:41 pm
Spoonman wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 4:12 pm I see Ms "I don't make mistakes" decided it was a good idea to promote the UK armed forces on Xitter by using footage from Bloody Sunday of all things. :shock:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l2gnvd0lgo

She quickly took it down, but not before enough people noticed.
Fuuuuuck....
Whale Sandwich.
By Oboogie
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Spoonman wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 5:26 pm In fairness, a Venn Diagram where you have Conservative NI supporters in one circle and those supporting the victims of Bloody Sunday in another would barely overlap the edges.
Oddly enough I used to know a couple of ex-paras, one a WW2 veteran (dropped on D-Day and Arnhem), the other a little older than myself who served from the late 70s to the mid 90s. Each of them cursed Bloody Sunday as a stain on the Regiment and cross they had both at various times been expected to answer for despite neither having been serving at the time, let alone involved. I was relieved to have my own bias checked as I would have expected them, out of misguided loyalty, to have tried to defend it which couldn't have been further from the truth.
If even paratroopers are prepared to condemn Bloody Sunday, I suspect some Tories might also.
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By Andy McDandy
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How many paras are there?

How many Walts and armchair generals are there?
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