3rd/4th English Civil War (IC/Invite-only)

[Nationalist Northumbria]

King Yob informs the army of Ashleigh's secret weakness. "Get him distracted and ranting about Northumbrian nationalism, I'm sure your boffins can figure out some clever way to do it. He won't be able to issue any orders while he's stuck debating that nonsense. My spy on the inside, Michael Bigg, will keep an eye on him," says King Yob.

"Thank you your majesty."
After asking Michael Bigg where to meet him two MI5 Agents from Manchester meet him.
They ask "How would Northumbrian independence work if banking is centered in the South? And would Asian, Muslims who were born and bred in the North be considered Northumbrian citizens? What about those of Scottish, Irish or Norman origin?"
The Sandhurst Prince George Fan Club go to Newcastle.
They have notified the local football hooligans that they would be there.

"Uh, I don't think Alvin really cares about banking. And yeah, he'd consider them Northumbrian citizens if other than their religion they were, you know... Northumbrian. And there isn't any such thing as Norman origin, it's Norman culture."

The buses they are travelling in are bombed.

[Ideal Britain]

Alvin Ashleigh is invited for a "debate" with an NCA agent from Bradford posing as a Sociologist from the same.

[Ideal Britain]

Newcastle is added as a battle honour for the Scots Guard and Lancashire Regiments and Bradford is added as one for the Black Watch et al.
The Northumbria Campaign medal is given to a number of soldiers.
In the South of England these people are hailed as heroes.

[Nationalist Northumbria]

Alvin Ashleigh is invited for a "debate" with an NCA agent from Bradford posing as a Sociologist from the same.

Alvin Ashleigh accepts.

[Didcot Risen]

Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe, formerly CO 2nd Battalion The Rifles, sits in the Broadways pub and quaffs a pint of real ale. He snarls at the telly in disgust. "King Yob my arse!" Rising from his chair, he pulls off his Barbour jacket to reveal DPM battledress. "I didn't serve in Iraq, Afghanistan, Falklands Two and Three, and the Manx Uprising for this bollocks! Rally the Home Guard, boys! Four hundred years of democratic codswallop ends today! Down yobs! Up with the House of Stuart!"

In barns all over Southern Oxfordshire tarps are removed from vintage military vehicles. They form up behind St James-Willoughby-Smythe's FV432 and begin to rumble north.

Meanwhile, a lovingly restored TSR-2 takes off from a strip of the A34 and obliterates London with a 450-kiloton WE.177 purchased on mod-sales.com.

[Ideal Britain]

Alvin Ashleigh is invited for a "debate" with an NCA agent from Bradford posing as a Sociologist from the same.

Alvin Ashleigh accepts.

The NCA Agent asks Alvin Ashleigh "Is the North economically self-sufficient? Isn't banking centred in the South? Would people of Pakistani, French, Scottish or Irish descent be considered Northumbrian if born and raised in Northumbria?"
OOC: how many women and children were successfully evacuated?
I'd say probably 10 children, 5 women and 2 men.

[Ideal Britain]

Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe, formerly CO 2nd Battalion The Rifles, sits in the Broadways pub and quaffs a pint of real ale. He snarls at the telly in disgust. "King Yob my arse!" Rising from his chair, he pulls off his Barbour jacket to reveal DPM battledress. "I didn't serve in Iraq, Afghanistan, Falklands Two and Three, and the Manx Uprising for this bollocks! Rally the Home Guard, boys! Four hundred years of democratic codswallop ends today! Down yobs! Up with the House of Stuart!"

In barns all over Southern Oxfordshire tarps are removed from vintage military vehicles. They form up behind St James-Willoughby-Smythe's FV432 and begin to rumble north.

Meanwhile, a lovingly restored TSR-2 takes off from a strip of the A34 and obliterates London with a 450-kiloton WE.177 purchased on mod-sales.com.

OOC: what Manx uprising?
That's not canon in this.

Also is Falklands two a real thing?

[Didcot Risen]

OOC: Yes

The Didcot Home Guard reaches Oxford, where they enjoy a nice brunch at Browns Cafe before shelling the council estates in Blackbird Leys with MLRS. Then they set up a field camp in the golf course just outside Horton-cum-Studley.

[Ideal Britain]

OOC: Yes

The Didcot Home Guard reaches Oxford, where they enjoy a nice brunch at Browns Cafe before shelling the council estates in Blackbird Leys with MLRS. Then they set up a field camp in the golf course just outside Horton-cum-Studley.

OOC: your guy wouldn't do that.
An honourably discharged British Major who served in Afghanistan wouldn't do that.
That's called a war crime

[Didcot Risen]

OOC: He had a PTSD flashback and thought the council tower was Tora Bora.

[Ideal Britain]

London, England, UK
Prince George is promoted to Major for "quelling a racist riot and rescuing civilians at the scene".

Bradford, England, UK
An imam goes on TV disparaging various Northumbria fanatics as "cowards who attack civilians then run when the real troops show up! And who even fear cadets who they target in cowardly ways!*"

*referring how the Sandhurst Prince George Fan Club's bus was bombed.

[Ideal Britain]

OOC: Yes

The Didcot Home Guard reaches Oxford, where they enjoy a nice brunch at Browns Cafe before shelling the council estates in Blackbird Leys with MLRS. Then they set up a field camp in the golf course just outside Horton-cum-Studley.

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry are sent to defend the estate.
Two companies them do reconnaissance to look for the treasonous "Home Guard"

[Didcot Risen]

Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe orders his troops to dig foxholes and slit trenches all around the golf course.

The Oxfordshire squaddies make contact with the Home Guard. After a firefight the Home Guard front line appears to collapse and troops retreat towards The Straight Line, the course's clubhouse.

[Ideal Britain]

OOC: it wasn't a massacre.
The military can be called up if the police cannot cope.
It's called military aid to civil power.

Mate, it was a massacre. You had your guys fire into a crowd of civilians.

OOC:
Who were rioting, blocking the way of police who wanted to arrest a criminal.
And they tried to evacuate civilians, how can it be a massacre? Alvin Ashleigh was warned.

Also I estimate the number of evacuees as 10 children, 5 women and 2 men.
What would you estimate it as?

[Ideal Britain]

Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe orders his troops to dig foxholes and slit trenches all around the golf course.

The Oxfordshire squaddies make contact with the Home Guard. After a firefight the Home Guard front line appears to collapse and troops retreat towards The Straight Line, the course's clubhouse.

The Oxfordshire squaddies pursue the "Home Guard"
"Surrender!" A 2nd Lieutenant says

[Ideal Britain]

Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe, formerly CO 2nd Battalion The Rifles, sits in the Broadways pub and quaffs a pint of real ale. He snarls at the telly in disgust. "King Yob my arse!" Rising from his chair, he pulls off his Barbour jacket to reveal DPM battledress. "I didn't serve in Iraq, Afghanistan, Falklands Two and Three, and the Manx Uprising for this bollocks! Rally the Home Guard, boys! Four hundred years of democratic codswallop ends today! Down yobs! Up with the House of Stuart!"

In barns all over Southern Oxfordshire tarps are removed from vintage military vehicles. They form up behind St James-Willoughby-Smythe's FV432 and begin to rumble north.

Meanwhile, a lovingly restored TSR-2 takes off from a strip of the A34 and obliterates London with a 450-kiloton WE.177 purchased on mod-sales.com.

OOC: get rid of the "obliterates London thing" please.
If he tried he would be stoppped there.

[Ideal Britain]

The Lancashire Regiment patrol Newcastle.
They find a house where the NCA intel suggests football hooligans congregate:
They knock on the door "It's the Army, may we please come in?"

Parliament debates a law to give the Army the following powers in the North of England:
1. To search buildings with a warrant or in an emergency
2. To arrest people with a warrant and
3. To detain people for up to 5 hours.

[Didcot Risen]

Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe orders his troops to dig foxholes and slit trenches all around the golf course.

The Oxfordshire squaddies make contact with the Home Guard. After a firefight the Home Guard front line appears to collapse and troops retreat towards The Straight Line, the course's clubhouse.

The Oxfordshire squaddies pursue the "Home Guard"
"Surrender!" A 2nd Lieutenant says

"All right, lads, give 'em hell!" Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe bellows. The Home Guard's reserve forces rise from their concealed foxholes in the roughs, outflanking and surrounding the Oxfordshire troops. Saracen armored cars and Land Rovers roar out of Studley Wood.

The "retreating" Home Guards drop to their alternate fighting positions dug in front of the clubhouse. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire is soon under withering fire from all directions.

"You surrender, you tearaway twat!"

OOC: We used toss-bombing just after taking off. I'll change London to Shoreditch and Hoxton.

[Nationalist Northumbria]

King Yob, having moved to the East End, is killed in the nuclear explosion. He is succeeded by his son Prince Yob, who becomes King Yob II, who survived because he was in Westminster at the time.

Meanwhile at the debate, Ashleigh responds to the arguments of his opponent. "The North is economically self-sufficient, and we will make it even more economically self-sufficient without Westminster dragging us down. Banking is irrelevant to the hard work and industriousness of the Northumbrian people. As for those ethnicities, it depends on whether or not their culture is Northumbrian as well. But personally I've never seen one of those Frenchie frogs be a real Northumbrian."

A hooligan firm releases a statement in response to the imam, saying that it was not a cowardly move, but an incredibly smart one enabled by the stupid decision of the Sandhurst cadets to tell their opponents they were coming. "If this is the quality of the people being trained at that school, we have done the British Army a favour," they say.

[Ideal Britain]

"What is opinion on the racist riot in Bradford?" The agent asks.

Then once he's answered the NCA Agent calls a platoon of Irish Guards from standby.

"NCA you're under arrest!" He says

[Ideal Britain]

The Act giving the Army certain police powers in the North are approved by the Lords.King Yob II is asked to give royal assent to the Act.
Meanwhile a state of emergency is declared and AFOs are sent to patrol the streets of Northumbria.

[Ideal Britain]

The Royal Hong Kong Artillery are deployed to Carlisle as are the 1st Hong Kong Logistics and the 2nd Hong Kong Infantry.
Meanwhile the Prince George Fan Clubs in Huddersfield, Bradford, Leytonstone, Wanstead and Hackney as well as RAF College Cranwell and Britannia Royal Naval College are growing by as much as 20% (in the case of the one in Bradford). The Royal Marines are sent to Newcastle, crossing the Tyne.

[Didcot Risen]

Tiffani Wadey, heir to the House of Stuart, tweets that since Parliament never received nor endorsed an Instrument of Abdication, King Yob's ascent to the throne was without legal basis and invalid, making King Yob II a pretender.

Since this uses 280 characters she tweets again that King Charles committed treason by illegally abdicating to a yob and proclaims herself Queen of a Restored Stuart Dynasty.

She tweets again to rally all the Jacobites in Britain to her side!

[Ideal Britain]

The Oxfordshire squaddies pursue the "Home Guard"
"Surrender!" A 2nd Lieutenant says

"All right, lads, give 'em hell!" Major St James-Willoughby-Smythe bellows. The Home Guard's reserve forces rise from their concealed foxholes in the roughs, outflanking and surrounding the Oxfordshire troops. Saracen armored cars and Land Rovers roar out of Studley Wood.

The "retreating" Home Guards drop to their alternate fighting positions dug in front of the clubhouse. The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire is soon under withering fire from all directions.

"You surrender, you tearaway twat!"

OOC: We used toss-bombing just after taking off. I'll change London to Shoreditch and Hoxton.

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment fire at St James Willoughby-Smythe.
"Traitor!" Yells a young Private.

[Ideal Britain]

Tiffani Wadey, heir to the House of Stuart, tweets that since Parliament never received nor endorsed an Instrument of Abdication, King Yob's ascent to the throne was without legal basis and invalid, making King Yob II a pretender.

Since this uses 280 characters she tweets again that King Charles committed treason by illegally abdicating to a yob and proclaims herself Queen of a Restored Stuart Dynasty.

She tweets again to rally all the Jacobites in Britain to her side!

The Attorney General mentions that since the 2030 Succession Act succession can be directly given solely by the King as can abdication if a specific person is chosen (though abdicators can never regain the throne).
She also points out that the Stuarts renounced their claim.

250 people (mostly Scottish highlanders), including 90 aristocrats do however pledge allegiance to her.