Best Operational Image, Amateur Category, Runner Up: Motar Tappa by Rfn Hubbard Lume being fired from the 60mm Mortar at PB Tappa Parang, Basharan, Helmand. Pte Alex Perryman firing and RFN Scot Empson loading
Sensational claims that Gordon Brown has physically attacked his staff in a series of outbursts in Downing Street - and once in America - have rocked the Government. Well-placed sources say the Prime Minister has been accused of hitting a senior adviser, pulling a secretary out of her chair and hurling foul-mouthed abuse at aides while distraught over an alleged snub by President Barack Obama. The claims, which are fiercely denied by Mr Brown's allies, are linked to a new book about Mr Brown by respected political journalist Andrew Rawnsley.In researching the book, The End Of The Party, due to be published on March 1, Mr Rawnsley has investigated allegations that Mr Brown flew into a number of wild rages since he succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister. The publishers say his accounts are so detailed that readers will think he has 'bugs in the vases at No10'. Another blockbuster book by Mr Rawnsley ten years ago revealed similar explosive incidents involving Mr Brown. The Mail on Sunday has been told that the new allegations include claims that Mr Brown:Hit a senior aide who got in the way as he rushed to a reception at No10.Physically pulled a secretary out of her chair as he dictated a memo to her.Hurled foul-mouthed abuse at two aides in his hotel room in America in a state of semi-undress after reports that he had been snubbed by President Obama.
Well it seems that as we suspected Gordon Brown is a typical Socialist bully boy. Imagine the rage he will erupt into when Labour are ousted from power in May, it will be like a Scottish version of the Tasmanian Devil.
Question. Regardless of whether your left or right wing do you think it is acceptable that Jean Randall, 79, and husband Derrick, 76 froze to death in their Northampton home on 7 January this year when Gordon Brown can give £1.9 billion of tax payers money to India in “foreign aid” a Country that is putting a man into space ?
Answer. I would say NO but then I will be accused of being RACIST.
Professional Photographer of Year Runner UpCpl Rupert Frere RLC In this image called Poppy Patrol, troops navigate through a poppy field in the green zone in Gareshk Valley, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Zulu Company from 45 Commando Royal Marines, based in FOB Gibraltar in the Gereshk Valley conduct a search operation over two days in order to clear key terrain of IEDs for their end of tour handover to C Company 2nd Battalion The Rifles.
In a sombre and fitting ceremony the process began today to lay to rest some 250 recently discovered WWI British and Australian soldiers, who fell in the 1916 battle of Fromelles The first soldier was buried with military honours in the presence of Veterans Minister Kevan Jones, his Australian counterpart, Veteran Affairs Minister Alan Griffin, families of soldiers who fell during the battle and people from the small French village of Fromelles. The bodies were excavated last year from six mass graves where they had been buried by the Germans after the battle. The soldiers are now being afforded a fitting final place of rest, in a new, purpose-built Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, the first Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery to be built for fifty years. They can now finally RIP.
`Dead man eating`
A sea of cadavers Bloating rotting Like scum on a pond Fingers poke through the soil Gesturing you towards them Hell on earth in France
Tommy chews on the frozen bread Like an animal having its last oblivious meal So hungry he swallows large chunks that tear his throat
Placing the ladder against the trench Tommy smiles He puts the dirty frozen bread in his pocket In 15 minutes his pain will end He knows it The already dead soldier climbs the ladder Soon to share his bread with his dead pals.
Bastard mud Human soup Sucking me down Loosing my boots Liquid hell Putrid smell Cold and heavy Can you tell A sea of men An ocean of shit Cant seen to swim I think I've been hit.
A TEENAGE soldier Private Robert Hayes, killed in Afghanistan 10 months after completing army training was remembered at a funeral service today. RIP
Tony Bliars' Evidence
He actually admitted to more than I thought he would in this video. You wont see the likes of Bliar or any of the politicians Here today but then who would want them?
It seems even Socialists Hate Socialists.
Some ask was Iraq Tony Bliars’s biggest mistake? I think it was his second biggest mistake his first was marrying Cherie. Although I wouldn’t say it was a Holy marriage more a pact of two devils made in the bowels of Hell.
Well I for one thing its quite fitting that the Sun newspaper has pledged to take on the task of running the nation's UFO-report bureau after cash-strapped Ministry of Defence chiefs closed it down last year, as most of the stories are so far removed from the truth that they might as well be written by an Alien on another planet.
Well no wonder the British tax payer is strapped for cash when we are giving our enemies £87m to buy new weapons and equipment, you really couldn’t make it up! I really don’t know why Bin Laden doesn’t claim Asylum in the UK then run for Parliament and become the Prime Minister? Dam there I go again giving the Labour Party more policy ideas.
TheRed Robot set a deadline of the middle of next year for “turning the tide” against the Taliban – suggesting that could be when British troops start coming home. That’s possible but then so is me winning the lottery.But then his old mateKARZAI the phantom ballet box tamperer says British troops need to stay in Afghanistan for as long as another 15 years, I guess that would be up to the then Taliban Government? I think its about time Gordon presented Hamid one of these medals what’s good enough for our politicians is definitely good enough for him.
Professional Photographer of Year Runner Up:Cpl Rupert Frere RLC In this image called Sacrifice, soldiers line up to take part in a memorial on camp Bastion for Lance Sergeant Toby Joseph Fasfous, 1 Welsh Guards, the first soldier to die on Operation Herrick 10, RIP
Those that have never experienced War will always think War a good idea,
Tony McNally
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The Union flag does not fly because the wind moves past it. The Union flag flies from the last breath of each military member who has died protecting it. British servicemen and women don't fight because they hate what's in front of them...they fight because they love what's behind them.
A quarter of homeless people are ex-services and 5,000 former service personnel are in prison.
The Red Poppy Company.
Did you know that each year an average of ten Falklands veterans commit suicide, this means that more soldiers have killed themselves since the end of that war than the fewer than two hundred and fifty eight who died during it.
(Source: Times cover story 12/11/02)
A "tsunami" of mental health problems resulting from the war in Iraq is "headed our way," - -