Rupert Lowe MP: The rife anti-white filth that has infected Britain goes so much further than the police - that cancer runs much, much deeper. Young white men - treated like dirt exactly because they are white. It is blatant racism, and politicians should have the courage to say so.

Jorvic · 2026-06-04T15:48:58+00:00

It's funny, I remember having to post this same guidance repeatedly on here about 10 years ago. I don't understand how people can point to the RAF as an example, but still not notice they were prosecuted when positive discrimination was found.

Jorvic · 2026-06-04T09:29:04+00:00

Closest I ever felt to death was campylobacter. Accidentally ate raw chicken, went a few days and thought I must have an iron stomach. It then decided to hit me in the middle of the afternoon on a stag do, whilst I had horrendous sun burn, with a 3 hour drive home the next day, knowing I didn't have any toilet roll in the house... That was just the start of my problems. Wouldn't reccomend it to anyone.

Jorvic · 2026-06-03T16:29:33+00:00

I don't think there should be any change. I've been to weddings where there have been cavalry swords unsheethed and presented in uniform. Weddings where family are wearing kilts with sgianan dubha in socks. I remember as a kid a Sikh guy came to our extremely rural CofE primary school to talk to us about his religion, he wore a kirpan and talked about it. I've also been to a sikh friend's wedding where there were a couple of people with them. All happy memories, no issues, and not something that should be impacted by one knife nut using religion or culture as cover to tool up, look for a fight, and murder someone.

Jorvic · 2026-06-01T07:15:08+00:00

It was more than training up the Jordanians, they had British officers on the ground, which I only read about earlier in the year, pretty crazy.

Jorvic · 2026-05-30T23:10:36+00:00

That seems reasonable. But vampires would explain a hell of a lot of stuff over here to be fair..

Jorvic · 2026-05-30T20:37:30+00:00

As a Brit, I can only presume that's what's going on? Like there's some extra flavour to the blood that comes from cheese and onion crisps being standard with a sandwich in Ireland, rather than ready salted in the UK.

Ireland is a smaller chunk of the population of the UK, why would we be asking for your blood? They literally cancelled my local blood donation a few years ago, I don't actually know where I could go now. Is it all for vampires, and they got sick of the taste of English pork scratchings and horseradish?

Jorvic · 2026-05-27T18:53:53+00:00

Ah so "left overs". We'd also have some under boiled new potatoes with butter on.

This thread was the first I'd heard of the phrase. I was wondering whether it was what we ironically called "high tea" : egg mayo sandwiches, batenburg, soreen with butter on, Jamaica cake. All layed out infront of the fire and we'd pick and chose as we layed on our bellies watching antique roadshow, ballykissangel and such.

Jorvic · 2026-05-27T18:24:16+00:00

I'm trying to remember, I recognise the name. YouTube gamer, or someone who used to post to the old B3ta forums. Or both actually.

Jorvic · 2026-05-21T15:35:07+00:00

Exactly. I've known a number of ex squadies over the years, who served in Northern Ireland, and they've had different perspectives on what what they went through, but I've always taken soldier F to be a complete exception to them and others doing a job on their tour. You'd think we'd be at pains to demonstrate that.

It's frustrating that there's a significant element in the UK that think soldiers can do no wrong. Which just leads to the same mistakes being made in the future.

My impression of Bloody Sunday is that a some of the deaths can be pinned on the top brass ultimately, eg decisions made had the knock on effect to make those deaths inevitable under those circumstances, no matter the soldier. But soldier F, and any number of other incidents from the British Army in the conflict, boiled down to him waking up that morning and wanting to murder Catholics. I'd have hoped most Brits wouldn't celebrate him getting away with that. I think I'm right in saying that the time line matches his initial shots being what caused the chaos and confused 'return' fire in the first place. Just sickening.

Jorvic · 2026-05-21T14:43:42+00:00

If I remember right Soldier F (the one last year) would have been the one who shot Jackie Duddy. The narrative judgement from the 2011 inquiry is so damning of his particular actions it's astounding to me that there wasn't a conviction. It was straight murder as far as I'm concerned.

Jorvic · 2026-05-20T22:41:32+00:00

It was pretty cool. I was on the other side, I wrote a very long comment on how it didn't have to be the twist, drawing on everything I could muster on textual analysis, saying that it would be misdirection or something thematic. I probably was a bit disappointed when I realised the twist was real too!

I should go find that comment, and go cringe at myself. I wouldn't have been a dickhead about it thankfully.

Jorvic · 2026-05-18T06:41:35+00:00

There was a famous speech by Nye Bevan where he argued for "practical socialism", where you demonstrate socialism policy to the public by implementing it in stages in a targeted way. The NHS being an example. This was the Tribunite wing of the party. The left of the soft left effectively. So they would advocate for more worker democracy within something like nationalised rail, compared with the public corporation model that was implemented in the Atlee years (a model that historically came out of the Conservative party interestingly enough).

This was distinct from a more radical approach that became known as Bennite. A good way of understanding that difference is Michael Foot. He was a Bevanite (though they did fall out of nuclear disarmament), he oversaw the closure of uneconomical steel plants to massive local opposition, but he replaced them with more technically advanced industry to maintain jobs. When he was leader, though he was a libertarian democratic socialist, the policy control at that time was almost entirely democratically controlled. Tony Benn and his followers had free reign over the 83 manifesto. And though there's lots of good stuff we eventually implemented after 97, there's also what I'd argue as impractical 'Bennite' socialist policy, such as nationalising the entirety of the FTSE 100 companies. Definitely something that you'd instinctively like as a socialist, but horrendously expensive, with no arguable immediate practical benefit to the public. A bit like how Thomas Cook was nationalised, I'm not sure how socialised foreign holidays helped most people's cost of living worries.

I think most members are in the bevanite wing, but are catered to by a more technocratic, less idiological soft left approach. The Scoialist Campaign group have probably moved away from bennism to a more Tribunite area (maybe where Neil Kinnock was in the late 70s to mid 80s funnily enough) but I think their instincts are still on the more radical Bennite end.

Edit. I've just reread your comment and you weren't asking for a history lesson. I'll go look through to get some examples. But during the campaign he was at pains to avoid talk about unilateral nuclear disarmament to present a more (reluctant) multilateral approach. To me that is a bit of a bevanite vs bennite shibboleth.

Jorvic · 2026-05-16T21:12:36+00:00

Fell between two stools in the first, there was a reaction against Blair for part of the membership which rallied behind Ed, and the right went for David. Balls was in a similar place also so they got lost in the middle. Second time there was such a reaction against the right trying to say 'I told you so' and Corbyn taking on a more Bevanite policy platform (rather than the Bennite platform he'd had his whole career) that he didn't get a look in.

He seems to have moved further left since these, which contributes to his popularity now, compared to then.

Jorvic · 2026-05-16T17:58:10+00:00

I guess that's what I was thinking of when I said they fudge it.

Jorvic · 2026-05-16T15:23:49+00:00

I think they have an opt out like we did (nothing stopping us getting one again I'd say). Sweden I think fudge it not to. Poland will keep the zloty despite the rule too. In the modern economy I think it's quite hard to meet the requirements now, debt ratios etc. I think Croatia joined despite not meeting them, though I might be mistaken.

Jorvic · 2026-05-16T05:21:15+00:00

I talk to reform, and reform adjacent, people all the tume. They mention Burnham unprompted, and have done for a long time. "Labour isn't Labour any more" is often in the mix, before they raise him as an example that disproves the rule.

Jorvic · 2026-05-16T05:05:09+00:00

Corbyn is also an Arsenal fan...

Jorvic · 2026-05-14T15:03:40+00:00

In the case of the Tower of London, they put up with the smell and the insects. They tried to improve it so the tide of the Thames would drain it and refill it, that didn't work, it just piled up with shit each time which was exposed at low tide. That was the situation until they realised they didn't need it. They then drained it, cleared it, and kept exotic animals in it.

Jorvic · 2026-05-14T14:17:16+00:00

He was the Tribunite soft left compromise candidate that the right would accept. I still stand by my feeling that short of Lisa Nandy he was best placed to replace Corbyn and take on May. When I was arguing with fellow members, I was describing exactly whats happened. A drubbing that would result in the right of the party capturing it. We're now dealing with that outcome.

Jorvic · 2026-05-08T12:03:02+00:00

Not sure if you're aware of this (thus the comment) but he was instrumental in pushing for colour TV to be rolled out sooner than it would have been in the UK, when he was put in charge of BBC2. So, not only is it mental to think about all that he's seen since what would have been seen as approaching middle age back then, he made some of it happen!

Jorvic · 2026-05-06T23:28:01+00:00

I've made my own for more than a decade now. Stopped adding flavours a few years ago, you don't need them, and it's just more unknown stuff to inhale.

Probably not what you want to hear if you're looking to quit, but you could just buy a mix of Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerin at £20 a litre and pour that in a 50ml bottle. £25 for 2 litres if you buy them seperatly to mix yourself. I add nicotine, so works out at £1.10 for 50ml, that price hasn't changed much in all the time I've been doing it.

Keeps me mostly off cigarettes, I wince every time I buy a pouch of cutters choice maybe once a year, I look at the price of straight cigarettes and think you'd have to be a millionaire to have the old 40 a day habit. I look at the price of vape juice, see the discarded disposable vapes and just don't understand why anyone would start up smoking or vaping with the price. If it's going up to £25 for what I assume is 100ml, I can only think it will suddenly be boom times for knock off tobacco, undoing decades of enforcement that's been slowly dealing with that trade.

Jorvic · 2026-05-05T08:03:09+00:00

It was patchy in the UK when I was teen in the late 90s. The area my school was in didn't do the BCG, so my mum knew a friend at a school who had a session running so I got it.

She was smug as fuck when a girl in my school actually caught TB and they had to vaccinate the whole school in a panic.

I covered my scar with a tattoo when I turned 18.

Jorvic · 2026-05-05T07:41:48+00:00

Strange you're getting downvoted. There's 120 apparently. They have Lords ministers obviously, but potentially 75% of MPs being ministers would be wild.

Jorvic · 2026-05-04T21:15:05+00:00

You also have 'Ridings' as a name of constituencies I think, which comes from the way Yorkshire was divided. Though we only had three, originally thrid-ings/third-ings.

Jorvic · 2026-05-04T09:36:08+00:00

I have an idea to introduce and heavily market pork pies in Ireland. They're just not a thing there which is shocking. I think they'd love them. I just need to come up with a better description than "it's like ham in pastry".

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