The Price At The Pump

Petrol at the pump has hit 105.9p per litre at my local filling station, yet despite the high price and the fact that oil prices are expected to rise for the rest of this year the Government is adding a further 2p per litre in duty from midnight tonight (2.3p including VAT).

At a time when families are feeling the pinch, and considering the already high levels of duty already collected on fuel, why is the Government pressing ahead with this raise? With the increases in oil price in the last two years prices are up about 40p in a litre already, and that includes additional VAT being collected. If the Conservatives have opposed this move they have not been vocal enough about it, as I haven’t heard any protest from anyone.

If the government really wants to help poor people it should reverse immediately the increase in fuel duty and let everyone of us know what they are doing to help reduce the price of petrol to UK consumers; excluding of course their recently uncovered policy of trading convicted terrorists for oil contracts.



Update 01-Sep-09: Tarquin helpfully provides the below graph which he rightly mentions makes the point much better than words can:

The Price At The Pump

Morland Nails It

Reproduced from The Times

Morland Nails It

Sovereign Independent Newspaper - print and distribute

The Sovereign Independent Newspaper is now available online. Update: the link opens a PDF and might take a few minutes; here's an alternative link.

Any of you visiting Ireland over the next few weeks might want to print it and pass it around.

Cross-posted

Sovereign Independent Newspaper - print and distribute

NWO Rothschild grab for the motorways

"A radical plan to raise £100 billion by privatising the motorway network has been presented to the three main political parties by NM Rothschild, the influential investment bank." Read here.

This is part of the New World Order plan to get control of real assets such as transport systems in return for "funny" and essentially worthless fiat money.

Vince Cable supports the scheme, “This is an attractive, positive idea..."

So Cable is bought and paid-for then.

EDIT: Read also on Prison Planet

NWO Rothschild grab for the motorways

Vitamin D to treat all this

Its a long video but its worth listening to.

Vitamin D to treat all this

STRAW LETTERS FUEL NEW MEGRAHI ROW

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They never learn, do they? The truth will always out!
Firstly, McSnot does his Macavity act for five days, secondly, when he deigns to grace us with his prescence, he talks much about his "repulsion" and "anger" and shifts the blame to the SNP Government in Scotland without actually giving us one piece of information that is believeable and thirdly, someone in Whitehall has finally done the decent thing to expose the truth we all suspected and has leaked a letter written by slippery Jack Straw showing the extent of Labour's involvement in the negotiations for the release of Libyan bomber al-Megrahi.

Jack Straw decided two years ago that it was in the UK's "overwhelming interests" not to exclude the Lockerbie bomber from a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, it has emerged.

Leaked letters from the Justice Secretary appeared to show that he backed away from efforts to stipulate that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was exempt from the agreement, citing "wider negotiations" with the Libyans.

Mr Straw's stance was set out in letters to Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary who recently provoked anger by releasing Megrahi on compassionate grounds.

The bomber was not released as part of the prisoner transfer agreement. But the disclosure of Mr Straw's letters, by The Sunday Times, is likely to raise questions about the Government's position on Megrahi's return to Libya earlier this month.

Ministers have rejected suggestions that the release was tied in to Britain's commercial interests but have refused to state whether they agree with Mr MacAskill's highly controversial decision.

The Sunday Times reported that Mr Straw's apparent change of stance came at a crucial time in negotiations about an oil exploration contract for BP in Libya. Six weeks after his change of heart, the deal was ratified.

In one of the letters, Mr Straw wrote: "I had previously accepted the importance of the al-Megrahi issue to Scotland and said I would try to get an exclusion for him on the face of the agreement. I have not been able to secure an explicit exclusion.

"The wider negotiations are reaching a critical stage and, in view of the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom, I have agreed that in this instance the (prisoner transfer agreement) should be in the standard form and not mention any individual."

Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey said the letters were the strongest evidence yet that the Government had been talking to the Libyans about Megrahi with a view to safeguarding Britain's commercial interests.

Thankfully this issue does not look like it will be going away for Gordon Brown anytime soon. We all know what happened, no matter what he says. He is implicated in this all the way up to his neck along with Blair, Mandelson and Straw and this letter is merely the first proof we have seen that confirms our suspicions. I imagine Gordon will not be getting much sleep again tonight - shame! My heart bleeds!!

HAT TIP TO The SUNDAY EXPRESS

STRAW LETTERS FUEL NEW MEGRAHI ROW

Britain's Most Un-PC Supermayor

Wow! Check this guy out. There is hope for this country yet. Peter Davies, Doncaster's new elected Mayor has made the following changes. Gordon Brown, David Cameron and the rest of them will be crapping their pants!

Within a week of his election, Mr Davies had slashed his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000, scrapped the mayoral limousine and abolished the council's free newspaper.

He has written to the Electoral Commission asking them to scrap two-thirds of Doncaster's 63 council seats in order to save the town £800,000 a year.
'If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?' he asks. 'They each get a basic salary of £12,590 and we have only eight council meetings a year anyway.'

Deeply sceptical of 'green claptrap', he must be the only mayor in Britain who wants more traffic in his town. He says it will boost business and has just announced plans for more parking spaces and an end to bus-only routes. 'Like it or not, we live in the age of the car,' he says.

He wants to cut all 'non-jobs' in his 13,500 workforce - such as platinum-pensioned 'community cohesion officers' - and aims to shrivel future pay deals for council executives.

Much as he likes his chief executive, Paul Hart, he says his £175,000 salary is 'a joke' and that any successor can expect half.
'Don't believe that stuff about "having to pay the best to get the best". It's arrant nonsense - look what it did to the City,' he says.

And he is in the process of 'de-twinning' Doncaster from its five twin towns around the world. Twinning, he says, is all about free holidays for councillors and their staff. On taking office, he was amazed to discover that the council had agreed to pay a £2,800 hotel bill during next month's St Leger race meeting at the local racecourse.

The money is for entertaining councillors from Herten, Doncaster's (soon-to-be-ex) twin town in Germany. It was too late to cancel the reservations, but Mr Davies will ensure the exercise is not repeated.
'Racing happens to be my passion, but I don't expect the taxpayer to fund it,' he says.

While these preliminary cuts may be local government heresy, what has really marked out Mr Davies for liberal opprobrium is his gratuitously provocative assault on what he calls 'the culture of political correctness'.

He has scrapped all future funding for Doncaster's annual Gay Pride event. 'I'm not a homophobe, but I don't see why council taxpayers should pay to celebrate anyone's sexuality,' he says.

He has scrapped funding for council translation services on the grounds that people should be encouraged to learn English. And he has scrapped the word 'diversity' from his list of cabinet portfolios.

'Going on about diversity causes racial tension, it doesn't improve it,' he says. 'The Government has just admitted that gipsies should be given special treatment and that only makes people angry. I want every citizen of Doncaster to be equal.'

Mr Davies is certainly setting himself up for demonisation - by Labour, Tory and Liberal alike. And the twice-married father-of-three hasn't even hit the 100-day mark. His critics are quiet for now, but I dare say Labour HQ has recruited a team of smear merchants to trawl through his past and his bins. He certainly speaks his mind, which is always a godsend for enemy spin doctors.

Here's Davies on climate change: 'I'm not green and I'm not conned by global warming.'

On women in the workplace: 'Why do we expect pregnant women to work?'

On council affiliations: 'I don't want to join things; I want to unjoin them.'

Bloody hell, the list goes on. Check out the comments too, the man is a hero!

Britain's Most Un-PC Supermayor

Brown Nosing with Pakistan & The Afghan Drug Trade

Britain is giving Pakistan £664 million pounds (it doesn't have) over the next four years to boost their fight against their great hoax called 'terror' - oh please!

a No 10 spokesman said:

"As we have said before our highest priority in Pakistan is to work with the Pakistani government to tackle the threat of violent extremism in its border areas with Afghanistan - a threat which affects both Pakistan's security and that of the UK."

Interesting to note that as the war has continued over the years, the focus has shifted from the 9/11 terror attacks to protection of borders and elections because of 'violent extremism'.

What has violent extremism in someone else's country got to do with the UK? Seriously, just because the Taliban's political theory favors immoderate and uncompromising policies which dont align with your own, doesn't justify a war. So what does?

It's one lie after the other. Here are some key facts:-

The potential value of Afghanistan’s opium, morphine, and heroin exports was $3.4 billion, a third of the estimated GDP of $10.2 billion in 2008.

Initial U.S. support to Afghanistan was $300 million a year.
Afghanistan is at the center of 3 billion potential consumers in China, India, the Gulf, and Europe.

Current spending by NATO and Coalition forces is about $20 billion a month.

Rural incomes per capita have to increase from $1 a day to at least $4 a day, the tipping point for opium production to become unprofitable.

Check out the 10 year framework for Afghanistan here.

Back in 2007, the Washington Post announced that Opium Trade increased by 34% (highest ever) and the country is now the source of 93 percent of the heroin, morphine and other opiates on the world market. Half of these drugs come from the Helmand Province. What are the soldiers dying for? Elections? Yeah sure they are! Lying c***s.

They can harp on about terror and global stability and violent extremism, but its all bullshit and instead of sending more troops, there should be a revolution to bring them home!

Brown Nosing with Pakistan & The Afghan Drug Trade

Make the most of this summer

..while it lasts. Thanks to John B for his suggestion for a fundraising party in aid of the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics. John thought a Pimps and Ho's theme would be apt and I have to agree with him. Arrange your local party, charge a couple of quid or have a whip round, then make your donation online, simple. Gordon will be keeping an eye on the sausages ;-) and Alistair will be using his 'flipping' expertise on the burgers.

As promised John, here is your invitation postcard. good luck with the fundraising.

From The Red Rag

Make the most of this summer

Lisbon Revisited

Not long after when this Labour Government screwed us on a referendum, which was also when newly anointed Liberal Leader Nick Clegg followed suit and did the dirty on those who voted for them as well - The Lisbon Constitutional Treaty, was sent to the Lords. Unlike MP's, some Peers actually read it, and they produced a report on it's changes and implications.

Usefully they produced the below detailing what competencies would sit where in a post Lisbon world... They have been a little kind to the EU on a couple of scores, but never the less it is a useful visual guide and worth revisiting as Ireland's second referendum draws ever closer.

Lisbon Revisited

Like Father, Like Son

I used to play a game - not a very imaginative or thrilling one - where I'd decide where to live in England depending on the quality of the local MP.  For many years I've had my eye set on a small farmholding in the constituency of Shipley, West Yorkshire but this morning I discovered that the apple had fallen from a bigger tree, so I'm now musing on the possibilities of Doncaster.  They recently elected an English Democrat Mayor and by all accounts, he's doing very well.

With delicious serendipity, it turns out that Peter Davies (the Mayor) is father of  Philip Davies (the MP).

Within a week of his election, Mr Davies had slashed his own salary from £73,000 to £30,000, scrapped the mayoral limousine and abolished the council's free newspaper.  He has written to the Electoral Commission asking them to scrap two-thirds of Doncaster's 63 council seats in order to save the town £800,000 a year.
'If Pittsburgh can manage with nine councillors, why do we need 63?' he asks.

Doncaster definitely has the edge at the moment and I hope many more English Democrat Mayors and Councillors with the same values are elected to office in England - it's no less than we deserve.  I'll definitely be keeping an eye on Doncaster.

Like Father, Like Son

A Small Victory Against The BBC

Over at LCC I recently pointed out how the BBC appeared to be plugging a socialist demonstration in an apparent attempt to divert attention from record unemployment figures. The article on the BBC website was amended 22 times during the day and there was a six hour gap after the socialist protestor was quoted until the Conservative spokesman was quoted.

In view of this I had a closer look at the recent article on population growth. According to News Sniffer this article was only amended five times and the Conservative spokesman was quoted from the outset. Result!

The article also quotes Tim Finch from the BBC's favourite think tank, the IPPR which I suspect of being a Marxist front that is heavily pro-immigration because it believes that immigration will eventually cause the social breakdown necessary to cause capitalism and democracy to collapse and allow the Marxist socialist utopia to emerge. He recently turned up at Conservative Home with an article that is a masterclass in Marxist politico-babble obfuscation.

I can't believe I actually live in a country where I am forced to pay for a state broadcaster that bombards me with anti-British propaganda. James Murdoch is in the news right now for heavily criticisng the BBC. Whilst I understand peoples concerns about the Murdochs, I am worried that their plans to start charging for news content will strengthen the BBC even further because obviously the BBC news site will remain free. Ed West recently argued in the Telegraph that impartiality rules prevent the emergence of a proper "right wing" or resistance in the UK like the one that exists in the USA. Having seen the protests recently caused by the healthcare arguments, even though I don't agree with what the people said, I am envious that they live in country where people go to town halls in the evening and argue passionately, rather than Britain where people just sit at home watching X Factor and mumbling that "somebody" should do "something".

People will say now that the Conservatives won't do anything about it. Unfortunately, I think this is true. The group that is most likely to vote in elections is pensioners and they get their TV licences free. If the Conservatives were to propose abolishing the licence fee it would be easy for Labour to paint this as an attack by nasty Tories on old people which is why the Conservatives probably won't do it.

A Small Victory Against The BBC

Massachusetts

Massachusetts by the Bee Gees

The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all Constitutional rights of Massachusetts citizens and forces anyone "suspected" of being infected to submit to interrogations, "decontaminations" and vaccines.



(Violation of 4th Amendment: Illegal search and seizure)

During either type of declared emergency, a local public health authority... may exercise authority... to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry into and investigation of the premises; to close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be
decontaminated any building or facility; to destroy any material; to restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons;

(Violation of 14th Amendment; illegal arrest without a warrant)

...an officer authorized to serve criminal process may arrest without a warrant any person whom the officer has probable cause to believe has violated an order given to effectuate the purposes of this subsection and shall use reasonable diligence to enforce such order. [Gunpoint]

(Government price controls)

The attorney general, in consultation with the office of consumer affairs and business regulation, and upon the declaration by the governor that a supply emergency exists, shall take appropriate action to ensure that no person shall sell a product or service that is at a price that unreasonably exceeds the price charged before the emergency.

"Involuntary Transportation" (also known as kidnapping)

Law enforcement authorities, upon order of the commissioner or his agent or at the request of a local public health authority pursuant to such order, shall assist emergency medical technicians or other appropriate medical personnel in the involuntary transportation of such person to the tuberculosis treatment center.

$1,000 / day in fines

Any person who knowingly violates an order, as to which noncompliance
poses a serious danger to public health as determined by the commissioner or the local public health authority, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 30 days or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars per day that the violation continues, or both.

Forced vaccinations

Furthermore, when the commissioner or a local public health authority within its jurisdiction determines that either or both of the following measures are necessary to prevent a serious danger to the public health the commissioner or local public health authority may exercise the following authority: (1) to vaccinate or provide precautionary prophylaxis to individuals as protection against communicable disease...

Forced quarantine for those who refuse (illegal imprisonment without charge)

An individual who is unable or unwilling to submit to vaccination or treatment shall not be required to submit to such procedures but may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health, as determined by the commissioner, or a local public health authority operating within its jurisdiction.

Arrest for refusal to be "decontaminated"

If an individual is unable or unwilling to submit to decontamination or procedures necessary for diagnosis, the decontamination or diagnosis procedures may proceed only pursuant to an order of the superior court... During the time necessary to obtain such court order, such individual may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal to submit to decontamination or diagnosis procedures poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health.

Interrogation

When the commissioner or a local public health authority within its jurisdiction reasonably believes that a person may have been exposed to a disease or condition that poses a threat to the public health, in addition to their authority under section 96 of chapter 111, the commissioner or the local public health authority may detain the person for as long as may be reasonably necessary for the commissioner or the local public health authority, to convey information to the person regarding the disease or condition and to obtain contact information... If a person detained under subsection (1) refuses to provide the information requested, the person may be isolated or quarantined pursuant to section 96 of chapter 111 if his or her refusal poses a serious danger to public health...

Forced isolation and quarantine

An order for isolation or quarantine may include any individual who is unwilling or unable to undergo vaccination, precautionary prophylaxis, medical treatment, decontamination, medical examinations, tests, or specimen collection and whose refusal of one or more of these measures poses a serious danger to public health or results in uncertainty whether he or she has been exposed to or is infected with a disease or condition that poses a serious danger to public health.

Forced entry into any home or building...

There's a lot more in this bill, including language that allows Mass. police to enter any home or building without a search warrant, to destroy any object or building they suspect may pose a threat to public safety, to order the closing and / or decontamination of any facility using highly toxic chemical decontamination agents, and to arrest, detain and interrogate anyone who gets in their way.

Meanwhile, all state law enforcement and medical personnel are granted complete immunity from prosecution for their part in violating your Constitutional rights. So if they violate your right to due process, or they accidentally destroy your home, or they kill your family dog because they suspect it might be infected, you have absolutely zero recourse.

Under this bill, Massachusetts becomes a medical police state. There is no debating it. It's all written, clear as day, in this law: The citizens of Massachusetts will have no rights, period. The Constitution is ancient history. You are now the property of the State.

With thanks to Natural News

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02pdf/st02028.pdf

Massachusetts

More From The Broken Compass

Still working my way through The Broken Compass a bit slowly but Hitchens is now on the subject of education and how he thinks it is being stealthily and systematically being undermined by Marxists. This segment really stands out:

There is interesting but fleeting evidence of the existence of a new educational establishment which refers to keep its debates private. According to the Sunday Telegraph of 27 June 1993, this faction is called the All Souls Group and it holds its 'clandestine thrice-yearly meetings' in an oak-panelled room at Oxford University. No minutes are kept of the meetings and no papers or public statements ever emerge. The discussions are protected by Chatham House Rules, which ensure that proceedings are off the record.

Hmmm. Sounds familiar. Hitchens is also scathing about the Conservatives ability to resist, describing how this anti-democratic trend bypasses the electoral system:

Rather than engage the enemy on this ground, they repeatedly plan and fight the battles of a previous war, while their radical enemies dash past them on either side, laughing.

So, me having begun to accept that Britain is being steadily undermined by Marxism, my thoughts are turning to how it manages to happen. The effect is so widespread and taking place over such a long time that I am sure that there is no shadowy cabal directing it, so how is it done?

I think that everybody probably has a concept in their mind somewhere of a perfect world where there is no suffering and everybody is eternally happy, a concept common in religion as the "promised land" or "heaven" and I think that Marxism taps into this on a primitive level. Democracy is hard work and takes a long time, and people have a nasty habit of disgreeing with each other, so when an opportunity is offered to people to bypass the effort of democracy, for lazy people with weak minds it seems natural to take the easier option, with some fuzzy concept of nirvana at the end of it.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

More From The Broken Compass

Lisbon Treaty Ireland Vote NO

Vote No in the referendum for the Lisbon treaty

Vote No

Lisbon Treaty Ireland Vote NO

Don't Inject Me: The Swine flu vaccine song

Cross-posted

Don't Inject Me: The Swine flu vaccine song

State Of The Nation

Another video that's worth viewing...

State Of The Nation

If You Tolerate This...

If You Tolerate This...

Boycott Scotland

Scotland has come under immence American pressure following the Justice Secretary's descision to release al-Megrahi the convicted Lockerbie bomber.

Huge efforts by some complete loonies (ooops I mean valued blogging community members) over the Atlantic has a seen a huge amount of web sites and blogs spring up asking for Scottish goods, tourism, products and services to be boycotted and rejected in efforts to make us re-think the actions of the Scottish Government.

I urge you all to visit this link here and go to

http://www.boycottscotland.co.uk/

A superb Parody and a hat tip to a follower of mine Alasdair Martin.

Bwahahaha

Boycott Scotland

Britains Drug and Gun Culture.

The Tories are warning that Britain's streets are turning into scenes from the US TV show "The Wire". This is hardly news or a surprise to those of us who have lived in these sorts of areas. I was speaking to a friend from Luton over messenger last night and she has finally decided to move to the outskirts of town, as someone was shot directly outside her flat a few weeks ago and she is terrifed to go out, of even going to work.

Chris Grayling will blame Labour for standing by while "urban wars" break out in parts of the country. Of course, Labour are completely responsible for the situation in the first place. Violent crime in Britain has risen by 70% since labour came to power, Chris Grayling blames family breakdown and the benefits culture.

Ironically, in The New Statesman online today "the Home Office minister, Alan Campbell, rejected Grayling's charges and said that overall crime and drug use were down.

"Since 1997, crime has fallen by 36%. Overall drug use is at historically low levels and robust action is ensuring drugs are being taken off the streets," he said" - What planet does Mr Campbell live on? Why does this Labour government continue to treat us as though we are complete and utter morons? Why do they think Margaret Moran didn't live in Luton? It's a dangerous, nasty place to live that's why!

Labour are loving the melee, it gives them the reason they need to dictate to us via a corrupt Police Force who end up merely wasting time hounding innocent people whilst they put into motion the wheels of their totalitarian regime and continued nannying and nagging of the population to justify their existence!

If family breakdown and the benefits culture were the only reasons this is occuring, I would be very surprised. The majority of areas where violent crime is rife are our "diverse" cities and towns. The main reason for this is simple. Labour's mass multicultural social utopia experiment has failed. They have allowed migrants to solely occupy areas instead of ensuring integration into the main population. As each area is occupied by an ethnic group, ownership and a tribal need to defend their "turf" springs forth into minds that are devoid of the normal things in life, like a job!

It encourages ethnic and white extremism as each tribal group fights for superiority. You can say what you like, but at the end of the day, human beings always have and always will be tribal by nature, that is just the way things are! Look at American gang culture, it is driven by ethnicity. It should have been a lesson to our government, not a blueprint for multicultural success but multicultural mayhem!

Another friend of mine was warned to leave Luton a year or so back as she was told "Luton is muslim now, you don't belong here". That friend was born in Luton as were her parents and grandparents.

Uncontrolled migration has led to vast areas of unemployment which fuels the bored minds of restless people, who soon turn to crime in order to live the lifestyle that they expected when they arrived in the UK and which the credit culture has encouraged amongst others. The foreign gangs that Labour kindly let into the UK who deal with everything from forced prostitution (East Europeans), child slavery for benefits (East Europeans), Identity Fraud (Africans), drugs (just about everyone else) and money laundering ensures continous lucrative employment for the hapless, at the expense of those who simply wish to work and have a normal civilised life with their families.

It is time to get tough. The time has come to punish those who offend against ordinary people. This means deporting foreign criminals instead of housing them in our "luxury, playstation, sky tv, internet, choice of menu" prisons at the taxpayers expense.

It means putting the human rights of victims first before the terrorists, murderers and thieves. Our prisons would then have space for British citizens that break the law. It means controlling immigration properly and deporting illegal immigrants. It means putting an end to the benefit culture that draws them to our shores and has them queuing at Calais.

Manchester has recently topped the league in Britain for burglaries. It is catching up to London in overall crime figures. You would think that the Police would be patrolling the streets tirelessly to ease the crime rate. You would be wrong! Manchester Police have decided that the way to tackle their shameful, embarrassing crime figures is to set up nineteen dedicated "hate crime" centres.

Although, I agree combatting hate crime is important, I hardly think that being called a "Paki" even comes near to shooting, stabbing or rape in any normal persons mind.

Are the conservatives going to tackle the real roots of crime? I doubt it... most are just not aware of the real problems as they look out of their front windows in leafy commuter belt country! For those that know where the truth lies, they keep their mouths firmly shut for fear of being labelled racist.

The situation has become so serious, private security companies are booming and the Gurkhas have found a need for their skills guarding our children on their way to school.

A book by Christopher Caldwell entitled "Reflections on the revolution in Europe - Immigration, Islam and the West" is being hailed by the more honest of our politicians like Douglas Carswell. It outlines the dangers of ignoring the issue of uncontrolled immigration by the governments of the EU and the UK. Ed West has done a review on the book in "The Catholic Herald".

UPDATE : OH HAS CONFIRMED IT, SOME AREAS OF BRITAIN ARE INDEED WORSE THAN THE WIRE.

Britains Drug and Gun Culture.

Truth dying out just about now...

The British soldiers of 2 Rifles had a mission: clear and hold Pharmacy Road.

FOB Jackson is currently home to Battlegroup headquarters for 2 Rifles. The area around the river is called the “Green Zone,” but just as appropriately could be called the Opium Zone. During season, the area is covered with colorful poppies, whose 2009 products are probably showing up by now on the streets in Europe. European money flows back here and buys fertilizer in the Sangin Market, which can be used to make bombs, produce more opium, get more money and make more bombs and grow more opium and make more money and bombs and grow more opium. Sangin is at once an ATM and weapons bazaar for the enemy. Nearly all fatalities in this unit have been caused by fertilizer bombs. The decision to mostly ignore the drug dealers has been a strategic blunder.

Via Calling England I learn that our bureaucratic Ministry of Defence has pulled the great battlefield photojournalist Michael Yon's 'embedded' credentials.
The same bloody wankers who've been buying new armoured death-trap vehicles for our troops to replace the old unarmoured death-trap vehicles have now pulled the plug on the only consistently honest down-and-dirty internet reporter about whom I know into operations within our defensive war against the jihadis.

He's supported solely by public subscription - in short, his honest non-mainstream media non snowjob reporting is all online and all financed voluntarily.
It's the essence of what the Internet and freedom-lovers the world over should be supporting.

But we're not supporting him, apparently, in sufficient numbers and he may have to stop reporting our side in September if we don't help.

So you can let the odious BBC and Newsweek and the New York Times and the Washington Post and the Guardian and the Independent and Sky and NBC, ABC, CNN and CBS go on monopolising the news war for their Islamist heroes, or you can help to maintain somebody who thinks that “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” He believes they are needed and do a job against all odds and including against their own worthless political class. He tells their stories and you can help him go on doing it here.

Please pass the news on.

Truth dying out just about now...

Vegans Are Better Than You

From the Telegraph:

"Vegan prisoners have won the right to order ethically-sourced food, toiletries and cosmetics in jail.

They will be allowed to buy in products including nuts, seeds, dried fruits, vegan chocolate bars, soap, shampoo, deodorant, sunscreen, lipstick and facial scrubs after prison chiefs agreed to allow them to place mail order requests to two “eco-outlets.

A spokesman for the Vegan Prisoners Support Group insisted it was 'critical' for the health of vegans that they have access to suitable food.

He said: 'Vegan prisoners have had very limited access to vegan products through prison shops. Our recommendations were for basic vegan hygiene and bodycare products like a vegan soap bar, shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser, deodorant and toothpaste. In addition we recommended a vegan chocolate bar, sweet and savoury vegan biscuit, a protein source such as Nuttolene or braised tofu, vegan spread, cheese alternative, soya yoghurt, flavoured soya drink and fortified soya milk.'"

Now, imagine that you - a normal person - are arrested, charged, convicted and sent to prison. Do you think you'll be able to pick and choose which chocolate bar you have, which shampoo you have, or be fussy about your cheese alternatives? No, you'll be given slop, gruel and buggered in the shower while bending over to get the standard shampoo. An unnamed source at HMP Exeter has it right:

"These guys are crooks. They are in prison to serve time. We can't be running around making sure they have the right sun cream or that they have the one brazil nut or selection of walnuts to make sure they get enough vitamins.

They gave up any rights to have principals when they robbed the old lady, burgled a house, smuggled cocaine or beat someone up."

Vegans Are Better Than You

A very cautionary tale about the New World Order

I would say that anyone who is concerned should see this video in its entirety

A very cautionary tale about the New World Order

Gordon Brown plugs the New World Order.

Gordon Brown plugs the New World Order.

Amerikan Concentration Camps

This was filmed in 2006.

I suppose our readers are not aware of the network of cabling being put in through the motorway network so that ANPR cameras can track us all either?
I was told about that from a scientist working with the government in 2002

Amerikan Concentration Camps

Outrage as mandelson medical records leaked

There was outrage in Westminster last night as confidential medical records relating to Peter Mandelson's recent prostate surgery were leaked to the media. The documents which have been seen in full by The Red Rag include graphic images of what doctors described as a parasitic growth that was removed from Mr Mandelson's prostate.

Doctor's were awaiting biopsy results to determine if the growth was malignant. However, one of the surgeons involved in the operation privately confirmed "I have rarely seen such obvious malignancy.

From The Red Rag

Outrage as mandelson medical records leaked

Book Recommendation: The Broken Compass by Peter Hitchens

I am currently about half way through The Broken Compass by Peter Hitchens. Hitchens is a bloke who, even a year ago, I wouldn't have given him the time of day but nowadays I pay far more attention.

His basic argument, which underlines all his writing, is that since World War Two British institutions have been slowly taken over by Marxist thinking which is designed in the long term to undermine Britain in order to move towards a global socialist state. In his firing line are politicians, the education system, immigration, religion, the undermining of marriage and the family and the media, especially the BBC, who he sees, with good reason, as being complicit in it. He is scathing about the "drinks and lunch" culture where deals are made between politicians and journalists in Westminster, away from the public's gaze. He makes clear that this is not a conspiracy in the sense that we usually understand it.

He asserts that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not the end of socialism but in fact provided Marxists with an excellent opportunity to pretend that they have abandoned their extremist views and enter mainstream politics and he identifies several leading New Labour politicians as having been involved with extremist groups in the past who now claim to have moderated their opinions. So does this make Francis Fukuyama complicit in this deception, having declared in 1992 that the end of the Soviet Union was "the end of history"?

Hitchens himself used to be an extremist Marxist so this would help give him insight into their tactics. For example, he recounts how in the post-war period very keen communist supporters were told not to actually join the party because it would be too obvious what they were up to. Personally, that tells me everything I need to know.

When I finish it I may write a more detailed review.

Book Recommendation: The Broken Compass by Peter Hitchens

Gordon Brown plugs the New World Order.

Gordon Brown plugs the New World Order.

Who controls the money supply?

Who controls the money supply?

Important quotes

"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. -
- Author Unknown -

This is exactly what is happening Will no one wake up?

Important quotes

Creating the New World Order

Cross-posted from my own 'blog…

As my own regular readers will be aware, I have for a long time known of the plans by what are essentially Communist (or, perhaps more accurately, Communitarian) elements in the world — and particularly (though by no means exclusively) within Europe — to create a Socialist world government.

This is being done by any means that can be utilised, which in an essentially non-Police State part of the world has to be via something that can be "sold" to a large enough slice of the public-at-large to be able to be put in place. The Global Warming/Climate Change agenda has been one of the most suitable candidates as a catalyst towards the Soviet Republic of Planet Earth that has yet been found.

An incisive and perceptive article at Conservative Home by Professor Jonathon Delaney shows how the Left are manipulating this largely false issue in pursuance of their own power-seeking ends. While this comes as no great surprise to many of us out here in the world, it is instrcutive to be able to review not only how it is being done, but also to comprehend the sheer long-term nature of the project and the patience it has required for its achievement.

Incidentally, that degree of patience goes way beyond the undoubted personal ambitions of many who have contributed to it, though no doubt they have done well for themselves anyway. That, though, is for someone else to document…

More significantly, it shows that the driving force behind all of this is even bigger than a shared ideology, and again demonstrates that it is not of human origin. I put that in just for information. Yes, I have been long aware of the Satanic nature of all organised Leftism in the world (it is so easily malleable, so this hardly a surprise!) but we have to deal with this on a human level, with the abilities we have. That is our duty, and we are equipped to handle it.

As I have covered on previous occasions, it is the network of organisations such as Common Purpose, the Fabians and various others, operating through the EU and other institutions (with their perople having infiltrated most if not all of the public sector by now), that are the puppet-masters behind what is going on. There are probably very well hidden backup structures as well, about which little or nothing is known.

Let us not be taken in by Al Gore, the Green Party or anyone else (especially as the leader of the Greens had to back off from an obvious false claim when challenged by Paxman recently!) and resist all these global initiatives.

Not that there is anything wrong with a world government in principle, and not that there isn't the big issue of overpopulation — the real issue, in fact — but never let the Left manipulate the news/media agenda to abuse and twist actual matters of concern in pursuance of their ends, at mankind's ultimate (and, in the end, probably terminal) expense.

Creating the New World Order

A Few Thoughts On The NHS "Debate"

Daniel Hannan is again grabbing the political headlines by giving some talks in America about the drawbacks to Socialised Medicine, and dispelling some of the myths there about how the NHS really is over here.

The most annoying and depressing aspect of this is the immediate attempts by the British left to smear Hannan and shut down a debate before it has even happened. Andy Burnham even went so far as to suggest that Daniel Hannan is “unpatriotic”… I know few people Andy Burnham seriously, but still he is a Minister, and to make such a suggestion is not just comically inaccurate, but a calculated insult.

Here’s what I want to add to the debate. Firstly I am like most people in the UK, my family and I have had good experiences of the NHS and we have had dreadful experiences, but I have not experienced to any degree healthcare in any other country first hand. So, my experiences and opinions stem from a bubble of prescribed ignorance.

If we can have the debate, it needs to be wider than offering the US system as the alternative, there are others. Dan has pointed this out already but he and Douglas Carswell’s preferred alternative is that of the model used in Singapore, and this is the alternative that they set out in their book, The Plan, published last year. [In contrast to another smear, this time allegedly from Tom Watson, who claimed Dan Hannan was going abroad casting assertions that he would not make at home.] I have read The Plan, and from memory their healthcare idea is to have citizens save through health schemes their own money to pay for healthcare to be drawn upon as it is needed, additionally people will need insurance to pay for more expensive healthcare should it be required. The poorest in society will be provided for by the State, as and when it is needed. The system itself becomes open to price influence and consumer pressures and will naturally seek ways to compete for custom by improving service and offering competitive pricing. Medical staff will naturally seek to be better so that they can themselves do better. When the system fails, individuals can seek recompense openly and fairly.

This may not be exactly as was written in “The Plan” but is the motion at a high level.

The well off do have the advantage of being able to pay for better doctors and facilities; but in contrast to the UK system now this will be more widely available than is currently available to the smaller, but wealthier who can still buck the system. Perversely the less than 10% who can afford to do so in the UK now, simply buy their way to the front of the queue and will likely end up in the same operating theatre, with the same doctor using the same tools, the other 90% or so have to wait their turn for a slot to open for their treatments.

So, what troubles me is; why exactly is it so offensive to the British Left that alternatives systems are discussed that may actually improve the state of health in the people of this country? There is compelling evidence that there are other systems employed in the developed world where a UK equivalent could save more lives; so it cannot be a body count issue.

It is of course because the NHS is the bedrock of the Socialist argument in the UK; it is held up as universally popular and universally acknowledged as being a success. But away from the Government and out of the mainstream press that is not entirely how everybody views the NHS. If you tug at the threads of the NHS and show that things can actually be done better, cheaper and more efficiently then the whole of the Labour Parties core beliefs can come into question. The criticism and attacks we hear from Labour come from a position of fear, rather than of confidence.

I gave it some, but not really a lot of thought over the last week, and I am personally in no hurry to bring down the NHS. Firstly, there has been no debate and no consensus that an alternative should be sought. This however I would like to contribute to. Secondly, as with all change the fear of change clouds the uncertainty of the potential of improvement. Without more cheerleaders and an inspired vision it is hard to have confidence that a change would be successful… but that can change.

The fear stems from the certainty of what almost certainly will go wrong. Though I am not convinced the whole of the NHS is behind the notion that the State must run all, there would be enough organised opposition to ensure that any moves to change will be fiercely opposed. We can be sure of this fact because we have the benefit of history on our side. Also, no matter what changes are made, and no matter how good things get, we can only move from an imperfect system into a different imperfect system, and it is there that those who are ill served and neglected will be held up as the victims of what I would assume will fast be referred to as corporate healthcare.

So, as is probably evident, I am personally clearer on the fact that I think we should just be open and allow ourselves the luxury of talking about how we could make things better, than I am on how I personally would advocate how we can really make improvements. But the more everyone talks, the clearer these positions and alternative will become. That is the benefit of living in a free society, power and change can emanate from public debate, rather than from those who prescribe how they think we should governed.

If you are still convinced we can do no better than to allow the State to run the Health Service, I invite you to imagine for one moment a contrasting example. In your mind’s eye, look at how the State has taken more and more control in the past 40 years of Education. Think about how things were in all terms, does the money the rich have buy more or less of an advantage today compared to 40 years ago? What standard of service do the poorest get? Are the standards better or worse than 40 years ago? Now ask yourselves the same questions of your food supply?

Perhaps a bizarre example, but what I am trying to illustrate is that in 40 years, through private enterprise, Supermarkets like Tesco’s & Sainsbury’s, as well as your local stores and restaurants have done more for food and diet equality to the people of the UK than the State has done for education equality. For the few of you who scoff, I invite you to now image the reverse scenario, if food supply was a ring fenced competence for Government? Would it be cheaper, or as widely available? Try to imagine how that would affect yours and everyone standard of living. In that bizzarro world, you would be hard pushed to imagine how the free enterprise system could be providing food much more easily and cheaply, but we know it to be possible.

Hopefully, such an example illustrates that it is not unpatriotic to simply aspire to live our lives free from State control. Also, just because we don’t yet have all of the answers to how we can make things better, the first step is to talk openly and to include everyone in those discussions, because everyone is affected. Then hopefully, down the line and with popular consensus try some new ideas out for real giving them a real chance to succeed or fail.

Finally, and just because I think it is important to mention something that is sometimes, strangely ignored and occasionally spun inaccurately. The NHS is free at the point of use, in that an ambulance driver no more needs a credit card than does your GP’s receptionist; but the NHS is not free. It is in fact very expensive and consumes a big chunk of the taxes we pay.

Cross-posted.

A Few Thoughts On The NHS "Debate"

Liar! Liar! The World's Not On Fire...

Watch this delicious clip as the leader of Greenpeace, Gerd Leipold, is forced to retreat faster than an Arctic ice shelf...



Hat-tip: James Delingpole at the Telegraph

Liar! Liar! The World's Not On Fire...

Armed Forces Compensation.....A Scandal

In another example of scandalous government policy it has transpired that a young Marine is fighting to have his compensation increased as a result of injury he received in Afghanistan.

Marine Ben McBean, of 40 Commando Royal Marines, lost an arm and a leg in a landmine explosion while on routine patrol in Helmand Province in February last year.

He also suffered multiple shrapnel wounds and burns that have scarred his body.

The Ministry of Defence had offered the 22-year-old compensation for only eight of his injuries - and for six of those he was awarded the minimum tariff.

He was initially awarded £161,500, but this was raised to £281,150 after a public outcry.

Now lets put this into perspective shall we.

£281,151.00 for that level of injury.
And that after the public got involved.
6 of the injuries he received got him MINIMUM payout..........MINIMUM.
Legal experts believe a civilian court would have awarded him more than £1m if he suffered the same injuries.

Recent civil cases brought against the MoD have resulted in much bigger payouts including £2m for an Iraqi teenager paralysed by a British bullet and £484,000 for an RAF typist who suffered repetitive strain injury. Nearly twice what Ben received........TWICE.

Marine McBean's lawyer is expected to argue that the MoD only looked at his injuries individually and did not take into account the disabling affect of the sum total, nor the potential for deterioration over time.

The Royal British Legion is representing Marine McBean at his appeal at a tribunal at Plymouth Magistrates' Court.

It said there is a need for MoD payouts to be "interpreted in a spirit of gratitude and generosity, not with an anxious eye to the Treasury".

The charity's director general Chris Simpkins said: "It is terribly sad that this brave young Royal Marine should feel dissatisfied with his compensation for injuries incurred in selfless service to his country.

"We're going to do our best for Marine McBean, but we need to be realistic - the appeal tribunal's decision will be limited by the Armed Forces' Compensation Scheme and we believe this scheme is unfair."

Under the MoD's existing compensation scheme, lump sum payments for the most serious injuries are capped at £570,000, although the scheme is being reviewed.

I am stunned by this story...............I can not get my head around his award and the award to the typist.

Brown.......Ainsworth.......how the hell do you actually sleep at night......HOW?


Ben initially came to the fore as he was returned to the UK on the same flight as Prince Harry.

Cross posted from myself

Armed Forces Compensation.....A Scandal

A time for choosing - Reagan reminds us of freedoms lost

The man was a first class orator back in the time when Conservatives were conservative and not wishy-washy liberals sporting blue rosettes.



Cross-posted

A time for choosing - Reagan reminds us of freedoms lost

Blogger feeds are buggered

Update 2:

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Update:

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A few questions with no answers

The townsfolk of old Wootton Bassett
Regularly pay their respect
To the corpses of brave British soldiers
In a way that we’ve come to expect.

It’s right that we honour the fallen
And regret young lives that are lost,
For the sake of a few helicopters
And failure to pay up the cost.

So why should our soldiers be slaughtered
For Departments who can’t do their sums
And the Ministers who should to be leading
Continue to sit on their thumbs?

We ‘re told that the war is defensive;
Keeping terror away from our shores.
The Taliban must be defeated
To settle political scores.

Democracy will be exported
So Afghans can all have their say,
But these tribesmen can never be trusted
To behave in a rational way.

So why should our soldiers be slaughtered
For a philosophical whim,
Depriving their children of fathers
For an end that’s increasingly slim?

With many thanks to Ian for this.

First posted on my blog

A few questions with no answers

Afghanistan: roll call of British deaths since 2001

Further to GOT's Troops tribute post, here is a roll call of the British service personnel who have died since the start of operations in Afghanistan in 2001.



2002

APRIL

:: Private Darren George. The Royal Anglian Regiment.

AUGUST

:: Sergeant Robert Busuttil, 30. The Royal Logistic Corps.

:: Corporal John Gregory, 30. The Royal Logistic Corps.


2004

JANUARY

:: Private Jonathan Kitulagoda, 23, from Plymouth, Devon. The Rifle Volunteers.


2005

OCTOBER

:: Lance Corporal Steven Sherwood, 23, from Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. 1st Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry.


2006

MARCH

:: Corporal Mark Cridge, 25. 7 Signal Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Peter Craddock. 1st Battalion The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment.

JUNE

:: Captain Jim Philippson, 29, from St Albans, Hertfordshire. 7 Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery.

:: Captain David Patten, 38. The Parachute Regiment.

:: Sergeant Paul Bartlett, 35. The Royal Marines.

JULY

:: Corporal Peter Thorpe, 27, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The Royal Signals.

:: Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi, 24, from Birmingham. The Intelligence Corps.

:: Private Damien Jackson, 19, from South Shields, Tyne and Wear. 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

AUGUST

:: Captain Alex Eida, 29, from Hooley, Surrey. 7 Parachute Regiment The Royal Horse Artillery .

:: 2nd Lieutenant Ralph Johnson, 24, from Windsor. The Household Cavalry Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Ross Nicholls, 27, from Edinburgh. The Blues and Royals.

:: Private Andrew Cutts, 19, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The Royal Logistic Corps.

:: Private Leigh Reeves, 25, from Leicester. The Royal Logistic Corps.

:: Lance Corporal Sean Tansey, 26, from Newcastle. The Life Guards.

:: Corporal Bryan Budd, 29, from Ripon, North Yorkshire. 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Jonathan Hetherington, 22, from Salisbury, Wiltshire. 14 Signal Regiment.

SEPTEMBER

:: Ranger Anare Draiva, 27, from Fiji. 1 Royal Irish Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Paul Muirhead, 29, from Bearley, Warwickshire. 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment.

:: Flight Lieutenant Steven Johnson, 38, from Collingham, Notts. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Lieutenant Leigh Mitchelmore, 28, from Bournemouth, Hants. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Lieutenant Gareth Nicholas, 40, from Redruth, Cornwall. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Lieutenant Allan Squires, 39, from Clatterbridge, Merseyside. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Lieutenant Steven Swarbrick, 28, from Liverpool. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Sergeant Gary Andrews, 48, from Tankerton, Kent. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Sergeant Stephen Beattie, 42, from Dundee. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Sergeant Gerard Bell, 48, from Ely, Cambs. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Flight Sergeant Adrian Davies, 49, from Amersham, Bucks. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Sergeant Benjamin Knight, 25, from Bridgwater, Somerset. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Sergeant John Langton, 29, from Liverpool. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Sergeant Gary Quilliam, 42, from Manchester. 120 Squadron RAF.

:: Lance Corporal Oliver Dicketts, 27, from Wadhurst, East Sussex. 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Joseph Windall, 22, from Hazlemere, Bucks. Royal Marines.

:: Private Craig O'Donnell, 24, from Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

:: Corporal Mark Wright, 27, from Edinburgh. 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Luke McCulloch, 21. 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment.

OCTOBER

:: Marine Gary Wright, 22, from Glasgow. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

DECEMBER

:: Marine Jonathan Wigley, 21, from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Marine Richard Watson, 23, from Caterham, Surrey. 42 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Lance Bombardier James Dwyer, 22, from South Africa. 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery.


2007

JANUARY

:: Marine Thomas Curry, 21, from east London. 42 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Lance Corporal Mathew Ford, 30, from Immingham, Lincolnshire. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

FEBRUARY

:: Marine Jonathan Holland, 23, from Chorley, Lancashire. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Marine Scott Summers, 23, from Crawley, West Sussex. 42 Commando Royal Marines.

MARCH

:: Lance Bombardier Ross Clark, 25, from South Africa. 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery.

:: Lance Bombardier Liam McLaughlin, 21, from Lancashire. 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery.

:: Marine Benjamin Reddy, 22, from Ascot, Berkshire. 42 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Warrant Officer Class 2 Michael Smith, 39, from Liverpool. 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery.

APRIL

:: Private Chris Gray, 19, from Leicester. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

MAY

:: Guardsman Simon Davison, 22, from Newcastle upon Tyne. 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.

:: Lance Corporal George Davey, 23, from Beccles, Suffolk. 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment.

:: Guardsman Daniel Probyn, 22, from Tipton, West Midlands. 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.

:: Corporal Darren Bonner, 31, from Gorleston, Norfolk. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

:: Corporal Mike Gilyeat, 28. Royal Military Police.

JUNE

:: Lance Corporal Paul Sandford, 23, from Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters.

:: Guardsman Neil Downes, 20, from Manchester. 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards.

:: Drummer Thomas Wright, 26, from Ripley, Derbyshire. 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters.

:: Captain Sean Dolan, 40, from the West Midlands. 1st Battalion The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters.

JULY

:: Sergeant Dave Wilkinson, 33, from Ashford, Kent. 19 Regiment Royal Artillery.

:: Guardsman Daryl Hickey, 27, from Birmingham. 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.

:: Lance Corporal Alex Hawkins, 22, from East Dereham, Norfolk. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

:: Guardsman David Atherton, 25, from Manchester. 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.

:: Sergeant Barry Keen, 34, from Gateshead. 14 Signals Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Michael Jones, 26 from Newbald, East Yorkshire. Royal Marines.

AUGUST

:: Private Tony Rawson, 27, from Dagenham, Essex. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian.

:: Captain David Hicks, 26, from Wokingham, Berkshire. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment

:: Private Aaron McClure, 19, from Ipswich, Suffolk. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

:: Private Robert Foster, 19, from Harlow, Essex. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

:: Private John Thrumble, 21, from Chelmsford, Essex. 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

:: Senior Aircraftman Christopher Bridge, 20, from Sheffield. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment.

SEPTEMBER

:: Private Damian Wright, 23, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.

:: Private Ben Ford, 18, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.

:: Sergeant Craig Brelsford, 25, from Nottingham. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.

:: Private Johan Botha, 25, from Pretoria in South Africa. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Ivano Violino, 29, from Salford. 36 Engineer Regiment.

:: Colour Sergeant Phillip Newman, 36, from Coventry. 4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment

:: Private Brian Tunnicliffe, 33, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.

OCTOBER

:: Major Alexis Roberts, 32, from Kent. 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

NOVEMBER

:: Lance Corporal Jake Alderton, 22, from Bexley, Kent. 36 Engineer Regiment.

:: Captain John McDermid, 43, from Glasgow. Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

DECEMBER

:: Trooper Jack Sadler, 21, from Exeter, Devon. The Honourable Artillery Company.

:: Sergeant Lee Johnson, 33, from Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland. 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment.

2008

JANUARY

:: Corporal Darryl Gardiner, 25, from Salisbury, Wiltshire. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

FEBRUARY

:: Corporal Damian Lawrence, 25, from Whitby, North Yorkshire. 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment.

:: Corporal Damian Mulvihill, 32, from Plymouth. 40 Commando Royal Marines.

MARCH

:: Lieutenant John Thornton, 22, from Ferndown, Dorset. 40 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Marine David Marsh, 23, from Sheffield. 40 Commando Royal Marines.

APRIL

:: Senior Aircraftman Graham Livingstone, 23, from Glasgow. The Royal Air Force Regiment.

:: Senior Aircraftman Gary Thompson, 51, from Nottingham. Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment.

:: Trooper Robert Pearson, 22, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire. The Queen's Royal Lancers.

MAY

:: Trooper Ratu Babakobau, 29, from Fiji. The Household Cavalry Regiment.

:: Soldier James Thompson, 27, from Whitley Bay, North Tyneside.

:: Marine Dale Gostick, 22, from Oxford. 3 Troop Armoured Support Company Royal Marines.

JUNE

:: Private Nathan Cuthbertson, 19, from Sunderland. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Private Daniel Gamble, 22, from Uckfield, East Sussex. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Private Charles David Murray, 19, from Carlisle. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal James Bateman, 29, from Colchester, Essex. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Private Jeff Doherty, 20, from Southam, Warwickshire. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Corporal Sarah Bryant, 26, from Cumbria. The Intelligence Corps.

:: Corporal Sean Robert Reeve, 28. The Royal Signals.

:: Lance Corporal Richard Larkin, 39.

:: Paul Stout, 31.

:: Sergeant Major Michael Williams, 40, from Cardiff. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Private Joe Whittaker, 20, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Warrant Officer Dan Shirley, 32, from Leicester. 13 Air Assault Support Regiment Royal Logistic Corps.

:: Lance Corporal James Johnson, 31, from Chatham, Kent. 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

JULY

:: Corporal Jason Barnes, 25, from Exeter, Devon. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

:: Lance Corporal Kenneth Michael Rowe, 24, from Newcastle. Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

:: Sergeant Jonathan Mathews, 35, from Edinburgh. The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

:: Private Peter Cowton, 25, from Basingstoke, Hants. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

AUGUST

:: Signaller Wayne Bland, 21, from Leeds. 16 Signal Regiment.

:: Corporal Barry Dempsey, 29, from Ayrshire. The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland.

SEPTEMBER

:: Ranger Justin James Cupples, 29, from County Cavan, Ireland. 1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment.

:: Warrant Officer Class 2 Gary O'Donnell, 40, from Edinburgh. The Royal Logistic Corps.

:: Private Jason Lee Rawstron, 23, from Clayton-Le-Moors, Lancashire. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Nicky Mason, 26, from Aveley, Essex. 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment.

OCTOBER

:: Trooper James Munday, 21, from Birmingham. D Squadron, The Household Cavalry.

NOVEMBER

:: Yubraj Rai, 28, from Khotang district, eastern Nepal. 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

:: Marine Robert McKibben, 32, from Westport in Co Mayo. The UK Landing Force Command Support Group.

:: Marine Neil Dunstan, 32, from Bournemouth. The UK Landing Force Command Support Group.

:: Colour Sergeant Krishnabahadur Dura, 36, from Lamjung district, western Nepal. 2nd Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles.

:: Marine Alexander Lucas, 24, from Edinburgh. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Marine Tony Evans, 20, from Sunderland. 42 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Marine Georgie Sparks, 19, from Epping, Essex. 42 Commando Royal Marines.

DECEMBER

:: Lance Corporal Steven 'Jamie' Fellows, 26, from High Wycombe. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Sergeant John Manuel, 38, from Gateshead. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Corporal Marc Birch, 26, from Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Marine Damian Davies, 27, from Telford. Landing Force Support Party, Commando Logistic Regiment.

:: Lieutenant Aaron Lewis, 26, from Rochford, Essex. 29 Commando Royal Artillery.

:: Rifleman Stuart Nash, 21, from Sydney, Australia. 1st Battalion The Rifles.

:: Corporal Robert Christopher Deering, 33, from Solihull, West Midlands. Commando Logistic Regiment Royal Marines.

:: Lance Corporal Ben Whatley, 20, from Tittleshall, Norfolk. 42 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Corporal Liam Elms, 26, from Wigan. 45 Commando Royal Marines.


2009

JANUARY

:: Serjeant Christopher John Reed, 25, from Plymouth. 6th Battalion The Rifles.

:: Royal Marine Travis Mackin, 22, from Plymouth. UK Landing Force Command Support Group, operating as part of 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Captain Tom Sawyer, 26, from Hertfordshire. 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery.

:: Corporal Danny Winter, 28, from Stockport. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Acting Corporal Richard Robinson, 21, from Saltash, Cornwall. 1st Battalion The Rifles.

:: Corporal Daniel Nield, 31, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 1st Battalion The Rifles.

FEBRUARY

:: Marine Darren Smith, 28, from Fleetwood, Lancashire. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

:: Lance Corporal Stephen Kingscott, 22, from Plymouth. 1st Battalion The Rifles.

:: Acting Lance Corporal Paul Upton, 31, from Looe, Cornwall. 1st Battalion The Rifles.

:: Corporal Tom Gaden, 24, from Taunton, Somerset. 1st Battalion The Rifles.

:: Rifleman Jamie Gunn, 21, from Monmouth. 1st Battalion The Rifles.

:: Marine Michael Laski, 21, from Liverpool. 45 Commando Royal Marines.

MARCH

:: Lance Corporal Christopher Harkett, 22, from Pontardawe in Swansea. 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Regiment.

:: Corporal Graeme Stiff, 24, from Grimsby. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards.

:: Corporal Dean John, 25, from Port Talbot. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards.

APRIL

:: Lance Sergeant Tobie Fasfous, 29, from Bridgend, South Wales. 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.

MAY

:: Corporal Sean Binnie, 22, born in Dublin. The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

:: Rifleman Adrian Sheldon, 25, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottingham. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Sergeant Ben Ross, 34, from Bangor, Wales. 173 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment, Royal Military Police.

:: Corporal Kumar Pun, 31, from the Parbat district of Western Nepal. 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

:: Lieutenant Mark Evison, 26, from Dulwich, south-east London. 1st Battalion The Welsh Guards.

:: Marine Jason Mackie, 21, from Oxfordshire. Royal Marine Armoured Support Group.

:: Fusilier Petero ''Pat'' Suesue, 28, from Fiji. 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

:: Sapper Jordan Rossi, 22 from West Yorkshire. 25 Field Squadron, 38 Engineer Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Martin Richards, 24, from Betws-y-Coed, North Wales. Armoured Support Group Royal Marines.

:: Lance Corporal Kieron Hill, 20, of Nottingham. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Worcesters and Foresters).

:: Lance Corporal Nigel Moffett, 28, from Belfast. The Light Dragoons.

:: Corporal Stephen Bolger. The Parachute Regiment.

JUNE

:: Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher, 19, from Reading. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Private Robert McLaren, 20, from the Isle of Mull. The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

:: Lieutenant Paul Mervis, 27, from London. 2nd Battalion the Rifles.

:: Major Sean Birchall, 33, from Guildford, Surrey. 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.


JULY

:: Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, 39, from Kirtlington, near Oxford. 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.

:: Trooper Joshua Hammond, 18, from Plymouth. 2nd Royal Tank Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal David Dennis, 29, from Llanelli, South Wales. The Light Dragoons.

:: Private Robert Laws, 18, from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Dane Elson, 22, from Zimbabwe. 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.

:: Captain Ben Babington-Browne, 27, from Maidstone, Kent. 22 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers.

:: Trooper Christopher Whiteside, 20, from Blackpool. The Light Dragoons.

:: Rifleman Daniel Hume, 22, from Maidenhead, Berkshire. 4th Battalion The Rifles.

:: Private John Brackpool, 27, from Crawley, West Sussex. Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment attached to 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.

:: Corporal Lee Scott, 26, from King's Lynn, Norfolk. The 2nd Royal Tank Regiment.

:: Corporal Jonathan Horne, 28, from Walsall, West Midlands. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Rifleman William Aldridge, 18, from Bromyard, Herefordshire. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Rifleman James Backhouse, 18, from Castleford, Yorkshire. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Rifleman Joseph Murphy, 18, from Castle Bromwich, West Midlands. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Rifleman Daniel Simpson, 20, from Croydon, south London. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Rifleman Aminiasi Toge, 26, from Suva, Fiji. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Corporal Joseph Etchells, 22, from Mossley, Greater Manchester. 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

:: Captain Daniel Shepherd, 28, from Lincoln. The Royal Logistic Corps.

:: Guardsman Christopher King, 20, from West Buckland, Devon. 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.

:: Bombardier Craig Hopson, 24, from Castleford, West Yorkshire. 40th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Lowland Gunners).

:: Warrant Officer Class 2 Sean Upton, 35, from Nottinghamshire. 5th Regiment Royal Artillery.

:: Trooper Phillip Lawrence, 22, from Birkenhead. The Light Dragoons.


AUGUST

:: Craftsman Anthony Lombardi, 21, from Scunthorpe. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

:: Corporal Kevin Mulligan, 26. The Parachute Regiment.

:: Lance Corporal Dale Hopkins, 23. The Parachute Regiment.

:: Private Kyle Adams, 21. The Parachute Regiment.

:: Private Jason Williams, 23, from Worcester. 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment.

:: Captain Mark Hale. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Rifleman Daniel Wild, 19, from Hartlepool. 2nd Battalion The Rifles.

:: Lance Bombardier Matthew Hatton, 23, from Haxby, North Yorkshire. 40th Regiment Royal Artillery.

:: An unnamed British soldier from The 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh Regiment.

:: An unnamed British soldier from 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

:: An unnamed British soldier from 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

:: An unnamed British soldier from 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.

:: An unnamed British soldier from 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.



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Afghanistan: roll call of British deaths since 2001