Quote from: Raven on Yesterday at 02:22:16 PMI don't understand why this is even happening 🤷 war is a terrible thing and people from all sides lose their lives in it. IMO, if anyone should get the blame for it and carry the can, it's the one/s who started the war, not the soldiers who were ordered to go and fight in it.

Spot on Raven

I don't understand why this is even happening 🤷 war is a terrible thing and people from all sides lose their lives in it. IMO, if anyone should get the blame for it and carry the can, it's the one/s who started the war, not the soldiers who were ordered to go and fight in it.

Remember it being used on styes which seemed quite prevalent when we were children

Total disgrace the way veterans are being treated whilst IRAkillers have been effectively granted immunity

I hope to get some more as they develop, but my granddaughter has gone back to uni today and she's been sending the photos.

I don't think there are any Australians on here but a case that is dividing Australia at the moment is that of Ben Roberts Smith .

Ben Robert's Smith is arguably Australia's most decorated soldier .
He is former SAS fighter 
Her holds the V.C . For outstanding courage under fire in Afganistan .
He charged two machines  guns single handed and thereby saved his the lives of his comrades .

He has now nearly two decades later been arrested and charged with the murder of five Afghanistan civilans .

There is no evidence as other than the testimony of other SAS amen who are also being charged with murder but have been granted immunity if they will testify against him .

It's a huge case in Australia and he has been basically charged by the media before he gets near a court house .

Once the new Troubles Bill gets passed similar cases will be held on British Veterans .

They are lovely photos, thank you, GrannyMac.

Quote from: Mups on April 23, 2026, 09:56:11 PMSo did I.
Didn't we used to use something called  'Golden Eye Ointment'  on them?
Or I remember hearing it said to rub a gold ring gently over them.  Something to do with the gold healing I think.

Yes, Mups, my goodness, I'd forgotten 'Golden Eye Ointment,' my mother bought it 
from the newsagent's/village store.  I hadn't heard about the gold ring treatment.

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 09:12:00 AMOf course with the recent added incentive to breed handed to them by Labour that will  not necessarily always be the case.

Absolutely.  They do breed like flies, and consequently once here they will continue to expand in numbers, even the ones who are now here legally.
Yes, of course, there are some good, beneficial muslims, especially professional people, but they are numerically a minority.
With three more years of Labour in power, I'm afraid that the invasion, and consequently the take-over of our country, will continue.
Despite the probability that Reform UK will take over government in 2029, it is possible that this may be too late.

Muddy, I agree with what you say.  It is rather worrying that Reform may be unable to restore our country to the safe and happy place it was when I was younger.
Why?  Because our Labour government wants it, for some reason.

It's true that are increasingly Muslim "ghettos ."
The principal one being London in the boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham
Followed by Birmingham our second city and then Bradford Manchester and other Northern towns .

They are not just Muslim. There are Muslim people all over the world and like any other people there are many good kind Muslims the same as there are anywhere else .

But , in the U.K. we have imported the most aggressive form of Islam from that bastion of human rights Pakistan .

Unusually immigrants to a country integrate after the second generation

Here many Pakistanis don't integrate  because of the custom - I don't know if this still applies - of bringing in spouses from  Pakistan . Spouses who sometimes never learn to speak English and therefore the children of such unions are always "second generation " even though they are born in the U.K.

This only seems to happen in Islam . They are many other cultures that come to the U.K. and do integrate . Thus we do not have Chinese grooming gangs or Chinese people attacking synagogues nor do they demand special treatment in any way .

Worse and in conjunction with that their religion are the Pakistani  cultural mores .
Their treatment and disrespect of women being the principle one .
The ritual killing of animal without prestunning which is horrendously cruel and against all our own laws .
Yet we allow this ?
Why ?