Robert @RobRoy
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A mature gentleman, married for over 50 years, to the same beautiful lady. We have children and grandchildren and are hoping to live happily ever after.
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We don’t want to go back to this The harder a wife works, the cuter she looks" is a famous 1930s advertising slogan for Kellogg's PEP cereal. Running in LIFE Magazine around 1938-1939, it promoted vitamin-fortified food to help women stay energetic for domestic chores. The phrase represents 1930s gender expectations, linking a wife's productivity to her appearance. Key Details About the Slogan: Origin: It was a Kellogg's PEP cereal advertisement from the late 1930s, often misidentified as a 1950s ad. Context: The ad campaign aimed to sell fortified cereal by suggesting it gave women the energy for cooking, cleaning, and dusting. Messaging: The ad implies that a wife's value was closely tied to her domestic performance and maintaining a cheerful, appealing appearance while working. Cultural Impact: It is frequently cited as a prime example of vintage, sexist marketing that reflected strict, mid-century gender roles.
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About time - copied from Facebook 🚨 Just eight months into Reform running Warwickshire County Council and the leader is already facing a vote of no confidence. George Finch, the Reform leader of Warwickshire County Council, will face the motion next week after a string of controversies. 🌪 Attacks on council staff�🚔 Attacks on partner organisations including Warwickshire Police�🔒 Breaches of confidentiality�🗳 Ignoring the will of the council after losing votes Green councillors say Finch has repeatedly abused the office of leader and brought Warwickshire into disrepute. One councillor said his behaviour has been “cheap and nasty political point scoring”. And in January Finch even said he wanted “boots on the necks” of council officers. Public servants who cannot answer back. This is what Reform politics looks like in power. Bullying. Chaos. Institutions under attack.
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The two men below are Mark Whitworth on the left found guilty of a string of depraved crimes against children including the rape of a child under 13. The other man is Karl Sharples who was found guilty of other depraved crimes including sexually assaulting and raping a child. The silence from the far right and such defenders of women and children as Yaxley-Lennon concerning these men and their crimes has been deafening. If though they had been from a different demographic such as Muslim we would have heard the outrage all over social media. Yet here is the very same Yaxley-Lennon doing an interview with Russel Brand, a man who has formally been charged with seven sexual offences against women as of March 2026: Between 1999 and 2005, two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, one count of indecent assault. 2009, one count of rape, one count of sexual assault. The whole interview was basically Yaxley-Lennon fawning over Brand and never challenged him over any of the sexual abuse and rape allegations he faced. Instead he said Brand was and I quote: “Brave and bold.” and that Brand is “paying a higher price” for his beliefs. When the allegations were brought up he tried to frame them as a smear campaign against influential dissidents similar to his framing of allegations against Donald Trump. Brand used the interview to characterise the rape allegations as political persecution and Yaxley-Lennon just nodded in agreement. So white men who rape children, nothing, white famous people accused of multiple rape, fawning interview, men with different ethnic minorities we hear him shouting from the rooftops everywhere. Convince me he’s not a blatant racist?
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Copied from Facebook 14 years of austerity destroyed our armed forces. Everyone in the military knew it. Our allies knew we weren’t up to it anymore. NATO downgraded our status to a Tier 2 member unable to defend itself without help. The Army’s latest Ajax fighting vehicle is stood down because it makes the occupants violently ill with headaches and motion sickness. Asked how many F-35Bs the Royal Navy needed to operate our two carriers, the answer was at least 48. The order for the Royal Navy and the RAF combined was exactly 48 in total. Then one crashed. Prior to the F-35B, Cameron exchanged our entire Harrier fleet of 77 aircraft for one F-35B based in the USA and the sole aircraft of 17 Sqn at the time. When the crisis in Libya reared up, our Invincible Class carriers only had helicopters on board and the Royal Navy had no jets. So the RAF cost a reported £87,000 per mission per aircraft to get over Libya from the UK using air-to-air refuelling instead of us having carrier-based Harriers. Asked why he hadn’t told Parliament about giving this Harrier ability away, Cameron said that the Harriers were old high-hours airframes and were sold as spares. Only problem was that the US Marines who got them had already highly praised Fleet Air Arm and RAF aircraft maintainers for the outstanding condition of those Harriers and said it was ‘the deal of the century’. Eventually 17 Sqn and then 617 Sqn got some F-35Bs with the RAF not the RN now operating from our carriers. Then the Royal Navy got some for 809 Naval Air Squadron to operate off their own ships. In the meantime, Tory sabre-rattling at China saw our ‘U.K. Carrier Strike Group’ sail with half the F-35Bs needed coming from and piloted by the US Marines and the carrier protection requiring one US Navy and one Royal Netherlands Navy destroyer to come along. For about 10 years our island nation had no maritime patrol aircraft after Cameron scrapped our Nimrods without any replacement. So the RAF were unable to patrol and monitor our seas from the air. The Royal Navy’s aged Type 42 destroyers were clapped out and breaking down. Our new Type 45 Dauntless Class destroyers are reportedly an amazing piece of kit, except we were supposed to have 8, and only got 6. Then the 6 we got started breaking down in hot weather, with Rolls Royce claiming that operating in hot weather wasn’t in the contract. How was anyone to claim they didn’t know that our warships have to operate in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Gulf and Indian Ocean where it’s hot? So the 6 Type 45s ended up alongside at the same time in Portsmouth having their sides cut open to replace their drivetrain. As a result, our 13 Type 23 Duke Class frigates had to take the strain. Only they had already been in service since the late 1980s. They have been driven into the ground already. Our one remaining Type 23 based in the Gulf has been used to destruction and is now decommissioned awaiting scrapping in Qatar. Our remaining minehunter there, HMS Middleton, is to be ferried back to the UK on the back of a large merchant ship designed for that purpose. The Type 26 frigates which will replace our aging Type 23s aren’t ready. The first four, HMS Glasgow, HMS Belfast, HMS Cardiff and HMS Birmingham are all ordered but not started or not near complete. HMS Glasgow is afloat but still being fitted out inside. The following Batch 2 ships in the class, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Sheffield, HMS London and HMS Newcastle were only ordered in 2022. In short, our frigates are worn to the bone and the replacements are a long way from being ready. The order of 12 was also downgraded to 8. So even when all these ships are at sea, a long time from now, (we also have a small order for Type 31 frigates), the ships we have will be six Type 45 destroyers and eventually eight Type 26 frigates. A total of 14 surface combat ships when before Cameron the Government had a standing commitment to the Royal Navy of 32. The thing about warships is that if you have a standing patrol, then with one warship on station, you will have one in maintenance having recently returned and one working up in preparation of taking over. With 32 surface combat ships we could maintain 10 patrols. The Caribbean (West Indies Guard Ship), the Falklands, the NATO ‘Standing Naval Force Atlantic’, three destroyers and/or frigates on the Armilla Patrol in the Gulf since 1980 etc. With 14 surface combat ships you can only maintain 4 patrols globally. Where once we had destroyers and frigates patrolling our overseas territories and interests, we now have ships designed really for what would have been North Sea fisheries patrols closer to home. The smaller patrol vessels now tasked with covering the Caribbean, Falklands and then ‘East of Suez’ have no main gun, only one 30mm one, no helicopter or hangar, no missiles and no Ship’s Torpedo Weapons System (STWS). Not so long ago we could provide a destroyer to our overseas territories in the West Indies for post-hurricane disaster relief. The last time saw French territories there with electricity and the lights back on whilst we had no guardship available and the traumatised residents literally in the dark looking at French islands lit up nearby and wondering why the French Navy was helping their people and where the Royal Navy’s crews and engineers were. Gibraltar is defended by something akin to a fibreglass pleasure craft painted grey and called ‘HMS’ but without any fixed weapons and only mounts to which General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) can be fixed to. In a turning point several years ago, a Russian warship sailing off the north of Scotland had no destroyer or frigate available to shadow it. The frigate tasked to do so had to be brought quickly out of maintenance and took 48 hours to get there. As for our submarines, we have four Trident Class ballistic nuclear (SSBN) submarines with one on patrol as our nuclear deterrent at any one time. There is much discussion about how independent our deterrent is given that we lease the missiles from the USA. France’s system is completely independent. We are unsure as to whether the story that we must get US permission to launch is true or not. Otherwise, we have only 6 Ambush Class (SSN) nuclear powered but conventionally armed ‘fleet submarines’. It appears that only one of them is seaworthy right now, but it’s just arrived in Australia to help cross-train with the Royal Australian Navy, so that’s handy. You get the picture. But although the armed forces were crying out for help from the supposed ‘party of defence’, cuts meant less maintenance and care for what we had and less of it on order too. So our fleet is clapped out and this was all before Labour came to power this time. And now it’s also harder to keep crews in the Royal Navy with some reports that a third are working their notice already. Suddenly we can’t send a destroyer quickly to Cyprus for a conflict which was sprung on us and we don’t have ships on patrol in the Gulf for the first time in 45 years. The public are angry, shocked and dismayed. The media are attempting to shame the Royal Navy and military planners in general. It’s almost as if they haven’t been informed by our media over the last 15 years. It must therefore all be this government’s fault. What are they playing at after just over a year in charge? The Tories are ignoring the fact that they held power and are trying to distract by apportioning the blame. So, of course Starmer stands up and clearly outlines what we have here, erm no. Like everything else, the public didn’t have any real idea how bad a shape this country was in and some focus group at Labour probably advised that they shouldn’t ’carp on blaming the Tories’ even when it’s so clearly their fault. So this debacle is pretty much like every other one we face. Starmer could do himself a favour by taking the bull by the horns and telling it how it is and who was responsible for our fall from grace. Chances are he won’t though.
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She walked into the hospital as a wife. She walked out as a widow. And within days, she learned she had also become something else— Broke. On April 20, 1968, Doris Day lost her husband, Martin Melcher, to heart failure. For seventeen years, he had managed everything. Contracts. Investments. Negotiations. She sang. She acted. He handled the world. She trusted him completely. After all, she was one of the biggest stars in America. Dozens of hit films. Chart-topping records. Box-office queen of the romantic comedy. Security was never supposed to be a question. Then the paperwork surfaced. There were no savings. No hidden reserves. No cushion. Instead: debt. Hundreds of thousands of dollars gone—lost in reckless oil ventures, collapsing properties, disastrous deals arranged by Melcher and his lawyer, Jerome Rosenthal. And one more shock waiting. Her signature—on a contract she had never seen. A five-year commitment to star in a television sitcom. She hadn’t agreed to it. She hadn’t even wanted to do television. But breaking the contract would mean lawsuits she couldn’t afford. The very people who had mismanaged her fortune could take what little remained. She was grieving. She was betrayed. And she was trapped. So she did the only thing left. She went to work. In the fall of 1968, cameras rolled on The Doris Day Show. Week after week, America watched her play a cheerful widow rebuilding her life. They didn’t know she wasn’t acting. Every smile masked exhaustion. Every paycheck chipped away at debt. Every episode was survival. But something remarkable happened. She didn’t just endure. She fought back. In 1969, she sued Rosenthal. The trial stretched for months. Tens of thousands of transcript pages. Dozens of witnesses. In 1974, a judge awarded her more than $20 million in damages, condemning the betrayal in blistering terms. She wouldn’t receive most of it—appeals and bankruptcy reduced the payout. But she had done something bigger than recover money. She had reclaimed control. When her show ended in 1973, she did something Hollywood never expects. She left. No dramatic comeback. No reinvention tour. She moved to the quiet coastline of Carmel-by-the-Sea and chose a life that had nothing to do with red carpets. She co-owned the Cypress Inn, where dogs were welcomed like royalty. She founded the Doris Day Animal Foundation, pouring her energy into rescue work, spay and neuter programs, and animal welfare laws. The woman once chased by paparazzi now spent mornings feeding rescued animals. The star who lost millions decided her legacy wouldn’t be measured in box office numbers—but in lives saved. When asked why she disappeared from Hollywood, she once said: “I like being the girl next door. I just wish I’d known what the neighborhood was really like.” She lived 51 more years after the day everything collapsed. Not bitter. Not loud. Not seeking revenge. Just steady. Kind. Purposeful. She lost her fortune. She lost her marriage. But she never lost herself. And in the end, that was worth more than anything they took.
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Female police officers getting punched in the face by Paul Golding’s bully boy thugs. It’s time the army were engaged against these scum bags. They are certainly not protecting our women and girls as all these so called patriots always shout about https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DuSfktT4c/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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This made me so sad, and I know how this caller and his son feel. I too went through those years of the national front and have seen so many people frightened. Now people, like this gentleman and his son talk of leaving to build a better life. Yes it really is ironic. https://youtu.be/q4pSUmgH6gA?si=vi2cUjMFyt_LfmM1
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A young man saved his entire family and the report here explains https://news.sky.com/story/police-release-call-from-boy-13-who-swam-for-hours-to-save-his-family-stranded-at-sea-13506421 The version that gb news was somewhat different to all other reports stating that he couldn’t get help When he arrived on the beach because no one spoke English . That was of course followed by comments from their followers about Islam, deportation and foreigners taking over the country ! How low can they go? Don’t answer that
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