Mark and Spencer fail causing upset and distress.

 

This is from Sandra John Yates

I ordered flowers on line from Marks and Spencer to be delivered on Dec. 23rd. they were to be taken to the church on Christmas Eve to put on my son's headstone. John was not able to take me to the church being too unwell at present and as there is no public transport where we live I booked a taxi to take me there. Unfortunately I was not able to take the flowers because they were in a very sorry state. They were advertised as flowers in water but all the water they had was on a practically dry piece of tissue. I rearranged them in a vase with flower food and water hoping they would revive but the following morning they looked even worse. I went to the church as planned without the flowers but to see the other headstones with beautiful flowers and wreaths placed on them was extremely upsetting.

I have been given a full refund after complaining and a £10 gift voucher to SPEND IN STORE! NO THANKS Marks and Spencer. To offer a £10 gift voucher on top of the refund was an insult, you can't compensate for the distress you caused over something that was so important to me. I didn't want the refund I wanted the flowers!

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Their name liveth for evermore

For the Fallen

BY LAURENCE BINYON

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,

England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,

Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,

There is music in the midst of desolation

And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,

Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;

They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,

Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,

To the innermost heart of their own land they are known

As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,

Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;

As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,

To the end, to the end, they remain.

The disaster that is Afghanistan

 

Seven dead in Kabul airport crowds as UK backs later US deadline | Afghanistan | The Guardian

As the tragedy at Kabul airport unfolds each day, we would do well to remember how this whole catastrophe came about. In 2001, two men conspired with a few others, to bring about regime change in Afghanistan. Their cover story was to remove  Al-Qaida from the country and to ensure that Afghanistan could not provide a sanctuary for "terrorists". However the real reason was and always has been to remove the Taliban from power and replace their regime with a regime more friendly to the west and particularly to the United States. Regime change is illegal under International Law as documented in the Nuremburg Principles. Those two conspirators were George Bush, then President of the United States and Anthony Charles Lynton Blair the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This brought about an illegal war based on lies and deceit, in the same way that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi regime was removed from office later in 2003 today, George "Dubya" Bush, from his home in   the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, watches as others attempt to resolve the chaos brought about in that wretched country and which has see the deaths of thousands of Afghani's and hundreds of service men and women, both American and British together with other NATO personnel.

After a succession of Presidents and Prime Ministers, the latest contributions to this illegal war, come about from Bozo Johnson and Joe Biden. In the case of President Biden, he inherits a strategy/policy thrust upon the region by his predecessor, Donald John Trump, who's excursions into foreign policy can at best be described as calamitous. 

However, Biden manages to generate hostility from all sides following his ill-fated speech to the American people on the 16th August, attempting to justify and defend his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. During the course of this oration, aimed directly at his American audience, Biden distorts history to claim that "America should not be involved in other nations civil wars". This was no civil war. This was a war resulting from an illegal conspiracy fuelling the ego's of two men. This was a war brought about by a majority of the Afghan people, seeking to resist invading forces and return the country to their previous administration as they have done to successive invaders over hundreds of years. 

Biden is labeled as an appeaser who "makes Neville Chamberlain look like the new Winston Churchill." Not to be outdone with criticism, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair wades in with his usual two pence worth of sarcastic nonsense, accusing President Joe Biden of an "imbecilic" decision to pull out US troops, adding, "As the leader of our country when we took the decision to join America in removing the Taliban from power, and who saw the high hopes we had of what we could achieve for the people and the world". Even now, Blair refuses to accept, or even admit, that the tragedy at Kabul airport today, the destruction and havoc of the last 20 years and the deaths of hundreds of American, British and NATO service personnel, together with thousands of Afghan's civilians, are the direct result of the gung ho actions and decisions that he and Bush put in place back in 2001.

The Afghan people do not deserve such disregard and have sent the America and the west a clear message. "Like other countries, we will have our problems, but they will be our problems, not yours".

We may not like the Taliban in much the same way as we do not like the Saudi Arabian regime or the Russian regime. However the fact remains that Afghanistan is the county of the Afghan people. It is not a suburb of Los Angeles or London.

Remember Nagasaki

 

August 9th 1945.

There is only one country in the world, that has used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another country.

Three days after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.”

It is estimated that between 40,000 and 75,000 people died immediately following the atomic explosion, while another 60,000 people suffered severe injuries. Total deaths by the end of 1945 may have reached 80,000.

August 6th

 

Remember Hiroshima.

There is only one country in the world, that has used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another country.

On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

R I P Hiroshima.

Stalinist Starmer trying to complete the destruction of Labour.

 

Kinnock, Blair, Mandelson, Campbell and Brown destroyed the labour party that is why I left then. When I renewed my membership I believed that Corbyn would restore socialist policies and work for the benefit of the membership and the people. We almost did it but were stabbed in the back by elements of the duplicitous PLP and traitorous employees in the party organisation. I am no longer a member of the party, but it is clear to see that some are pleased with a return to the good old days, as Starmer carry's on the destruction started by Blair et al. To those who choose to remain in the party and resist, I would mention that Starmer is even more of a Stalinist than was Blair, (If that is possible), and with the aid of his sycophant followers will crush any opposition to his Blair Mk. 2 party. The Labour party of Keir Hardy, Clem Attlee and Nye Bevan is dead and will not return. The Labour government of 1945 should have been the beginning of a socialist nation, but tragically for the country and its people, it was the end

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves too.

 'Israel has a right to defend itself': US President Joe Biden condemned for supporting Israel over Palestine (freepressjournal.in)

Joe Biden says 'Israel has right to defend itself' as US throws its support behind Jewish State.

Joe Biden says 'Israel has right to defend itself' as US throws its support behind Jewish State.

I am seething with anger at the never ending hypocrisy of western nations, particular the United States, in its attitude to the Palestinians.

Biden throws off the mask and commits America to again support aggression, ethnic cleansing and genocide by the Israeli state. He uses the cliched words so familiar over past decades about the right of Israel to defend itself. Words which have been echoed by countless western governments and pressure groups supporting Israel.

In the eyes of the western world, the Israeli' can do no wrong and the Palestinians are demonised and branded as terrorists or militants or worse.

The United Nations meet to discus the crisis. Western leaders call for restraint and seek to "bring the sides together". Empty rhetoric.

When it comes to ethnic cleansing, blatant aggression and genocide, Palestinians have the right to defend themselves!!!