In Uncertain Times

In case you've forgotten (and don't forget to hang, draw and quarter those traitorous bastards who've sold you into slavery - and never ignore the call when sounded), this is the song of a people who felt they possessed something worth dying for, and survived:



Get off your settees and prepare for hardship; you're going to have to fight or what you grandparents had, whether you wish to or not.

PS: The photograph shown in the link above is of US troops and the dependent slivers of metal displayed on the man's left breast are marksmen's badges. The equivalent award in the British army was to be allowed to double back to barracks, in full order, without a bloody good bollocking from the Sergeant Major.

The sign saying ' Better 'Ole' above the sandbagged entrance to a shelter refers to a Bairnsfather cartoon of the First World War.

The Spitfire is painted in a shade variously described as Photo Reconnaissance Blue.

The flag shown at the end is not fit to wipe one's arse on.