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Here we bloody go again! The British Establishment and in particular the British Military Establishment are bringing a symbol of its presence to Cardiff (swper dwpper capical swity of girgle girgle diddums cymru) Bay and they hope people aren't going to notice! What they fail to realise is that some of us are unemployed and it is our job to spot the on going colonisation of our Celtic Country.
2 million pounds have been allocated by the UK government. Well that's all right then! Thank god it's not the smug arses in the Assembly/Senedd that have sanctioned this.
2 million pounds have been allocated by the UK government. Well that's all right then! Thank god it's not the smug arses in the Assembly/Senedd that have sanctioned this.
You see, it will get public sympathy because it has the word 'Medicine' in it and when we see that word we think of the Angels of the NHS and Florence Nightingale and the brave surgeons cutting limbs off in field hospitals, their shirts and pince nez splattered in blood and surgical alcohol. We do not think of the might of the British Imperial War Machine! If you want to see that, you have to go to the Imperial War Museum in London or Manchester and a sobering visit that is, but quirky liccle Cardiff gets the Military Medicine Museum to bring in the tourists to look at the paraphenalia used to save the men and women who were fighting the 'fuzzy wuzzies' on our behalf. This part is sinister.
"Design proposals for a new Museum of Military Medicine in Cardiff will be unveiled at a public exhibition.The exhibition, at Cardiff and Vale College's city centre campus, will outline plans for the museum's relocation from Keogh Barracks near Aldershot to Cardiff Bay."
So some crafty sod has decided to rope in the Cardiff and Vale College knowing that if you get the demography 16-19, you've got them for life. So the Caterers and the Hairdressing Apprentices will be able to see first hand what the new building will look like. Who knows, they might get a job in there!
The British Army recruits in the poorest areas with the worst schools and lowest educational standards. They are then square bashed and sent off to a life of adventure and heavy drinking very rarely able to return to civilian life without difficulty. Institutionalised brutality is traumatic! It can provide comrades and a surrogate family but when you first reach for the prosthetic limb you are on your own...until now! Will this new £2 million pounds museum have prosthetic limbs hanging down from the ceiling like Basque ham or tea pots in tea rooms?
You can tell I feel passionate about this. Bear with me lovely boy. Whether it is the Windsor Davies Sergeant Major in 'It ain't half hot mum' or Welsh Soldiers singing Men of Harlech at Rorke's Drift, the Welsh have supplied as much cannon fodder to the class based Sandhurst operated army as have other poverty stricken areas of the Dis-United Kingdom. They do not appear to have a very good track record in looking after the health and safety of their soldiers in peace time let alone war. From the beasting of territorial army personnel on the Brecon Beacons we learn that on average 9 British Soldiers die in training every year. Collateral Damage? Maybe,but somebody's father, somebodies son!
I don't think that the Military Medicine Museum in Cardiff will be particularly popular, perhaps as popular as its present base in Aldershot which is known as a Garrison Town. Did anybody even know of its existence....until now. Do not turn Cardiff, the Capital City of Wales into a Garrison Town.
The British Army recruits in the poorest areas with the worst schools and lowest educational standards. They are then square bashed and sent off to a life of adventure and heavy drinking very rarely able to return to civilian life without difficulty. Institutionalised brutality is traumatic! It can provide comrades and a surrogate family but when you first reach for the prosthetic limb you are on your own...until now! Will this new £2 million pounds museum have prosthetic limbs hanging down from the ceiling like Basque ham or tea pots in tea rooms?
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I don't think that the Military Medicine Museum in Cardiff will be particularly popular, perhaps as popular as its present base in Aldershot which is known as a Garrison Town. Did anybody even know of its existence....until now. Do not turn Cardiff, the Capital City of Wales into a Garrison Town.
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Squad, stand down, stand easy"
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