Went into Vire a couple of hours ago, treated to a 4 ship RAF (I think) A400 flypast🙂 complete with the D-day paint job
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Of course they were. A freebee day out with their hands held all the way and the sycophants fawning all over them.
I do not see them caring enough to do some useful work - like, telling their pox-ridden government to sign the OK for ten poor children from Gaza waiting to be let in for critical surgery after many have had amputations without anaesthetic
Sitting here watching the coverage from Ver sur Mer. The stories are really quite something and I seem to have some grit in my eye.
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Just seen pictures in the rag press of the paras who dropped in, being asked by french immigration officials as they land for their british passports etc. You couldn’t make it up butit also reflects on our sad state of affairs regarding security these days.
I wonder what symbol they had on the stamps. A little parachute perhaps.
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Do we know if the MoD had previously submitted a full roster of the Paras landing in France to the French authorities beforehand?
The Belgian Paras weren’t checked, but they’re EU citizens.
The American Airborne troops weren’t checked either.
This is either a SNAFU from the MoD or La France going “Full de Gaulle”.
I suspect that neither of those came directly from a non-EU state.
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I spent much of yesterday taking in as much as I could, listening to the veterans, artists and historians giving their stories and facts. Most interesting. Especially views of the historians that they interviewed,
One thing though that was really riling me as the day went on, is how awful that de Gaulle chappie really was. I never had much time for him as a history item, but it sank in yesterday what a sh*t he was. Not only did London give him a safe roof over his head, the allies liberated his country and he had the nerve to stand up and veto the UK all those years ago.
I also wondered - I wish someone had asked them - what the veterens who went through that hell in Normandy, what they think of the world now…
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DIRECT. 80 ans du Débarquement en Normandie : le “Chant des partisans” retentit à Omaha Beach, suivez les temps forts
So glad that our locals sing the Chant des Partisans at every opportunity throughout the year… I’ve heard it so often that I was able to sing-along with everyone today…
True, but - from the BBC archives:
He wasn’t actually wrong about the hostility bit was he?
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Can anyone see the problem with this picture shared on social media by Tommy Robinson / Stephen Yaxley-Lennon? 
He may have been quite prescient.
Perhaps if Britain had been part of the founding team for the common market then things would have been different. Or perhaps, as I suspect, Britain is not at all suited to being part of such a coalition, and was always going to find it a very uncomfortable place to be.
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His explanation?
Oh it’s an image of them taking the wounded back.
Er, no 
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Perhaps - a suggestion made without much thought - because it’s an island, rather than being part of a much bigger geographical ares. Great Britain has never had to share a land border with any other nation.
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I would have expected nothing less than this piece of AI-generated nonsense from that piece of nonsense(1)…
(1) I had a rather more pejorative term than “nonsense” in mind, of course.
He’s like Trump - attempts to wrap himself in the flag but can’t even do that properly.
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Does one blame AI or the person who instigated a picture?
Well, the bells rang out across much of France this evening at 19:44…
While I was away impersonating Quasimodo…
OH only had one phone call, someone wanting to know who had died 
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It’s worth remembering that this was pre-Suez, and despite rationing and being the European country that received the most in US Marshall Plan economic aid, the UK still saw itself as a great imperial power, that didn’t need to economically integrate with the French and other European nations.
Well, that worked out well!