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Waldo@1688 retweeted
💥 The Hypocrisy Is Breath-taking 💥
I’ve watched John Finucane stand up and demand answers from the DUP about Ulster Resistance and weapons imported nearly forty years ago. He wants Gavin Robinson to account for the actions of men long gone. He talks about families still waiting for truth.
Spare me.
This is the same Sinn Féin that still cannot bring itself to describe the IRA’s campaign as wrong. The same movement whose leadership spent decades defending, justifying and, in many cases, participating in a terror campaign that murdered far more people than Ulster Resistance ever did. The same party that has never delivered a full, honest account of the Libyan weapons, the human bombs, the Disappeared, or the thousands of families destroyed by the Provisional IRA.
And now Finucane wants to lecture unionism about “serious questions”?
Where are the serious questions for his own side? Where is the sustained demand for the IRA Army Council figures who directed the murder of men, women and children to provide the same level of detail he is now demanding from the DUP? Where is the equivalent pressure over the weapons that came in from Gaddafi and were used to slaughter people on the Shankill, in Enniskillen, at La Mon, and in countless other attacks?
Those families are still waiting too. They do not get glossy reports launched with Sinn Féin MPs as keynote speakers. They get silence, whataboutery, and the occasional mumbled “it was a different time.”
The double standard is so blatant it is almost insulting. Loyalist violence is treated as a living political scandal that today’s unionist leaders must answer for. Republican violence is treated as historical scenery. One set of victims is weaponised. The other is expected to move on.
I have no interest in defending sectarian murder by anyone. But I will not sit through lectures on accountability from a party that has spent decades protecting its own from the very scrutiny it now demands of others.
If Finucane wants a conversation about weapons, political responsibility and the cost paid by families, he should start with the organisation his party still refuses to fully confront. Until then, this is not about truth. It is about selective outrage dressed up as principle.
The families of IRA victims deserve better than this hypocrisy. They always did.
#Legacy #DoubleStandards #SinnFein #IRA #Hypocrisy #PUL #NorthernIreland
Waldo@1688 retweeted
They gave their lives for a world they would never see. Planted the seed for the tree whose shade they would never sit in. For me, you, our families, our friends, our children. For all of us.
The ultimate sacrifice, the bravest of heroes.
Today, we remember them. Tomorrow we will never forget them.
Lest we forget.❤️
Waldo@1688 retweeted
When you go home,
Tell them of us and say;
For your tomorrow
We gave our today.
#TwoMinuteSilence #ArmisticeDay #LestWeForget
Waldo@1688 retweeted
Today we pause to reflect on those gone before us in order to keep our great nation free.
We remember those who never returned and those who returned but were never the same again.
Now, and forevermore, we will remember them.
Waldo@1688 retweeted
Rangers remembrance day display.. respect 👊 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
#gers #Rangers #glasgow #unionbears #glasgow
Waldo@1688 retweeted
The Scottish Government 'X' account posted about the Sikh event 'Bandi Chhor Divas' at bang on 11.00am yesterday, with absolutely nothing about Remembrance Sunday said all day.
I suspect millions of Scottish men and women share my utter disgust with the SNP.
Waldo@1688 retweeted
The Scottish Government has questions to answer.
More than 207,000 fallen men and women are listed on the Scottish War Memorial's Roll of Honour.
Yesterday, the country fell silent at 11am to remember those to gave their lives for us.
Also at precisely 11am yesterday, the Scottish Government's X account published a post. Not about Remembrance Sunday, but about a Sikh festival. In fact, that account did not post to mark Remembrance Sunday at all.
Later in the day they also posted about climate change. But still, did not see it necessary to mark one of the most poignant days in our nation's calendar.
Bandi Chorr Divas is, of course, an important date for Sikhs. Indeed, it coinciding with Remembrance Sunday was the perfect opportunity for the Scottish Government to recognise the almost 200,000 Sikhs who were killed or injured fighting in the World Wars alongside allied forces.
They didn't do this. They chose to just ignore Remembrance Sunday altogether.
I have written to the Scottish Government for answers, not least in identifying who is responsible for showing such contempt and disrespect to our armed forces and veterans.
Waldo@1688 retweeted
Hundreds of London black cabs lined Westminster Bridge again today, waiting to take veterans home from the Cenotaph without charging a penny.
The service, now called Cabs for Veterans after running for years as Poppy Cabs, began in 2009 with fifteen taxis parked on the bridge, marking the eleventh hour while they waited for veterans coming off the trains. The drivers had realised something nobody had thought much about: every London black cab is wheelchair accessible, and for a lot of veterans that is the difference between attending and staying at home.
Seventeen years on it runs to over a thousand free journeys, most of them packed into about two hours either side of the service. Drivers meet veterans at the mainline stations, take them to Whitehall, then wait and take them back again. The whole thing is funded by the cabbies themselves, time, fuel and all, often with family and friends along to help.
As one organiser put it, there is no more moving sight than standing on Westminster Bridge as Big Ben strikes eleven and seeing hundreds of black cabs lined up in silence.
Waldo@1688 retweeted
🌹Few moments in television are as profoundly moving as the final scene of #Blackadder Goes Forth.
The laughter falls silent. Our heroes go over the top. And the battlefield fades into a field of poppies.
A heartbreaking reminder of a generation lost.
Waldo@1688 retweeted
Rangers fans display away at St Mirren tonight.
Battle of the Somme, 110th Anniversary, 1916-2026, We Will Remember Them 🌹
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On November 7, 1920, in the strictest secrecy, the bodies of four unidentified British soldiers were exhumed from temporary cemeteries in Ypres, Arras, the Aisne, and the Somme. None of the soldiers who dug up the bodies were told why. The remains were taken to military headquarters at Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, France.
There, the bodies were covered with Union Jack flags. A guard was posted, and Brigadier General Wyatt and Colonel Gell randomly selected one of the four fallen soldiers.
The other three bodies were reburied. A French guard of honour was appointed to stand beside the coffin of the chosen soldier throughout the night.
On the morning of November 8, a specially designed oak coffin arrived, made from timber grown in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. The remains of the Unknown Warrior were placed inside.
A Crusader's sword was mounted on top, along with a shield bearing the inscription:
"A British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914–1918 for King and Country."
On November 9, the Unknown Warrior, accompanied by a guard of honour, was transported on a horse-drawn carriage. He was received by Marshal Ferdinand Foch before being taken aboard HMS Verdun for the journey to Dover.
The coffin rested on the deck, covered with wreaths and surrounded by a French guard of honour.
Upon arrival in Dover, the Unknown Warrior was greeted with a nineteen-gun salute — an honour normally reserved for field marshals.
A special train then carried the coffin to Victoria Station in London, where it remained overnight.
On the morning of November 11, 1920, exactly two years after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, the Unknown Warrior was finally taken to Westminster Abbey.
The idea of honouring an unidentified fallen soldier came from a British Army chaplain named David Railton, who had served on the front lines during the Great War.
The Union Jack he had used as an altar cloth during the war was the same flag that covered the coffin.
Railton wanted the families of the hundreds of thousands of servicemen whose remains had never been identified to believe that the Unknown Warrior might be their own lost husband, father, brother, or son.
A man without a name became a symbol of every soldier who never returned home.
A single grave became a place where an entire nation could mourn.
Every year on November 11, Britain remembers the Unknown Warrior and all those who gave their lives in war.
They had names. They had families. They had dreams. They had futures that war took away.
We may never know who lies beneath that stone.
But we know what he represents.
Lest we forget. 🌹
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Waldo@1688 retweeted
The ninth and final Celtic-associated convicted serial paedophile is Celtic Soccer Academy coach Mark McAuley.
McAuley’s case is as much an indictment of Celtic FC’s so-called safeguarding policy as it is of McAuley’s paedophile activity.
In January 2019, he was accused of nine charges of sexual offences on two boys under the age of 13, and two under the age of 16.
The Times - 19 January 2022
It is alleged that McAuley repeatedly pinned a child down, put his hand under their trousers and touched their genitals.
He is also accused of asking a child to remove his clothing and inviting them into his bed while he wore only his underwear.
The alleged offences are said to have taken place at addresses in Dunfermline, Edinburgh and Tain in the Highlands, as well as in a vehicle on the A9 and elsewhere, between February 2016 and August 2019.
McAuley’s online CV states that he was an international coach with the Celtic Soccer Academy, which is part of the Premiership club and teaches children to “learn to play the Celtic way”.
Photographs posted online by the academy in 2019 show him working with young boys and girls, wearing Celtic FC training gear, at club-sanctioned training events held in Sweden, Northern Ireland, Qatar and Scotland.
Waldo@1688 retweeted
Burns was effusive in his praise for Cairney in the
accompanying article -
"Tommy Burns believes Frank Cairney is one of the great unsung heroes of the Celtic story. It's because of the support given to him by the former Celtic Boy's Club general manager, that Burns is now firmly installed in the manager's chair at Parkhead.
He said: "Frank was instrumental in me coming here as manager and over the last fortnight has been a fantastic help and a true friend.
He's been a great confidant of mine since I was a 16-year old and in the year I spent working with him at Celtic Boys Club formulated many of my footballing ideas.
Frank is a unique coach with an ability not only to bring the best out of the players he's worked with, but also to extract every ounce of feeling they have for the club.
He's never been given the credit he's deserved for the players he's brought through the Boys Club, or the passion for Celtic he's instilled in them.
He's got a great aura about him and virtually everyone who's worked with him is part of his extended family - he has that kind of relationship with his players.
There are still half a dozen players in the first team squad even today, who hold him in that sort of esteem.
And so they should, because he's given 30 years of his adult life championing the Celtic cause he believes in so deeply.”
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After his Director’s Box pass was rescinded, and having been ostracised to the point where he was unable to carry out his duties as Boys Club chairman, Hugh Birt announced his resignation at the 1986 Celtic Boys Club Annual Awards Dinner.
Shortly after his enforced resignation, Birt was interviewed by Gavin Goodwin of the Sunday Mail.
‘The chairman of the famous Celtic Boys Club sensationally resigned last week. He quit at a special 20th Anniversary celebration because, he said, the Celtic board were ignoring complaints from parents of some of the boys.
Last night, Glasgow businessman Mr Hugh Birt (50) - who has been chairman for 12 years - said, “It was the board’s duty to investigate these complaints. Instead, nothing happened and I was more or less told not to rock the boat.
Faced with that, I had no alternative but to resign.”
Complaints from parents are recorded in the Boys Club Committee meetings of last November. They include complaints about -
Boys being taken out socially when no games were involved,
Boys arriving late back home, and
Boys going away on weekends to non-existent tournaments.
Mr Birt said the complaints were so serious he took them to Celtic vice-chairman Kevin Kelly. Later, he raised the matter with Celtic manager David Hay.
Mr Birt was then asked to resign. When he refused, Celtic withheld his season ticket to the Parkhead director’s box. He has not been back at Parkhead since.
Mr Birt said, “It appears the Celtic board want to look in the other direction in the hope the troubles will go away.”
Leading Scots solicitor Joe Beltrami has been advising Mr Birt on the issue over the last nine months. Mr Beltrami said, “Mr Birt is a man of unquestionable integrity and his loyalty to Celtic and the Boys Club is total. He has taken the proper decision.”
The Boys Club has five teams with almost 160 youngsters aged 12 to 16. It has produced such stars as Paul McStay, Roy Aitken, Charlie Nicholas and Tommy Burns.
It is run by general manager Frank Cairney, his assistant Jim Torbett and a large group of helpers.
At The Trophy Shop in Shawlands, Glasgow, where he works for Torbett, Kevin Kelly said, “It is correct that various complaints were raised and discussed at a meeting last November.
But there was no concrete evidence to pursue it further. I did, however, take that opportunity to remind all officials of their responsibilities to the boys and their parents.”
On the resignation request to Mr Birt, Kelly said, “I was upset that he had bothered Mr Hay on a matter that was not the manager’s concern. Along with Cairney and Torbett, we asked him to resign.
He refused, and we thought things would settle down. None of us expected his resignation and, when it came, it was a bit of a shock.”’
Sunday Mail - 30 Nov 1986
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I have always respected Tommy Robinson for his work on the rape gangs - he gave evidence to our inquiry, and it was remarkable to hear his level of knowledge. It contributed massively to our findings.
Tommy was fair and balanced. I learnt a lot.
He has not been treated fairly by our establishment for many years, and today is the latest example of that.
To be honest, I believe it is a disgrace.
He was right on the rape gangs. The state was wrong.
They want to vilify him for that.
The media, the justice system, Labour, the Tories, Farage. It was made very clear to me when I was in Reform that I was not to praise Tommy Robinson publicly. I did regardless.
The entire establishment is against him.
My view is this - he has done more than any politician to uncover the rape gangs, and for that I thank him.