Brittiska tråden

[Old Badger]

Var förbi Gnesta och köpte några öl och så läste jag på burken om vad det handlade om.
Lord Raglan, Krimkriget mot ryssarna och slaget vid Balaklava...

Battle of Balaklava | Crimean War, British-Russian Conflict

Battle of Balaklava, also spelled Balaclava, (Oct. 25 [Oct. 13, Old Style], 1854), indecisive military engagement of the Crimean War, best known as the inspiration of the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade.” In this battle, the Russians failed to capture Balaklava,

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Fitzroy James Henry Somerset: Lord Raglan (1788--1855)

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Det är nästan 40 år sedan så det handlar inte om nutiden men det stämmer bra in ändå...

You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket, but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand, there's no turning back
The bugle sounds, the charge begins
But on this battlefield, no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses' breath
As I plunge on into certain death, oh, oh
The horse, he sweats with fear, we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near, yet so far away
We were meant to fight another day, oh, oh

 

[Old Badger]

Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-63309400

 

[gundj]

Insatt av en drottning och utsatt av en kung, bra jobbat på 45 dagar.

 

[Tegel1432]

1,5 MSEK i resten av livet får hon för sex veckor i tjänst. Bra timlön.

 

[Klosse]

Efter Prins Andrew-intervjun såg Liz Truss häromdagen till att Storbritannien har ett fast grepp om positionen som titelförsvarare i mästerskapet ”Tjänstemän med minst andel nödvändig kompetens”. ??

 

[Klosse]

1,5 MSEK i resten av livet får hon för sex veckor i tjänst. Bra timlön.

I praktiken blir det nog inte så, med tanke på den uppmärksamhet som detta har fått. Ifall hon ändå skulle försöka, verkar ett snabbt antaget lagförslag som förhindrar det troligt.

 

[Old Badger]

Guy Fawkes Day: A Brief History​

The British holiday, celebrated with fireworks and bonfires, commemorates the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Observed in the United Kingdom every year on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day—also called Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night—commemorates a failed assassination attempt from over 400 years ago. On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group of radical English Catholics tried to assassinate King James I by blowing up Parliament's House of Lords. The plot went awry and all of the conspirators were executed. Soon after, Britons began to celebrate Fawkes' demise and the survival of their king by burning effigies, lighting bonfires and setting off fireworks—a tradition which has continued to this day.

Guy Fawkes Day: A Brief History | HISTORY

The British holiday, celebrated annually with fireworks and bonfires, commemorates the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

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[gundj]

I år eldar de upp Liz.

 

[Micke R]

 

[Old Badger]