I have never liked Comic Relief, and I am glad that it has come a cropper for investing in the arms trade.
That has happened in the same week as the Government has had to give up its lunatic scheme to privatise defence procurement.
Defence procurement is an integral part of defence. Bring it all in-house or, to a BAE restored as the publicly owned
monopoly supplier to our own Armed Forces, accompanied by a total ban
on the sale of arms abroad and the use of government action to preserve
the skills base while diverting its application to other uses.
Comic Relief would not be involved at any stage.
Like renationalising the railways, or forcibly splitting retail and
investment banking, you will say that I am mad and illiterate until it
happens. Then you will pretend to have thought of it yourselves.
That said, the people now running the party that is guaranteed to win the next General Election, the party that has voted against this Government's defence cuts and which has sought to moderate the effects of its persecution of military families, have never accused me of being either mad or illiterate.
That said, the people now running the party that is guaranteed to win the next General Election, the party that has voted against this Government's defence cuts and which has sought to moderate the effects of its persecution of military families, have never accused me of being either mad or illiterate.
I could never quite understand Comic Relief. First of all I never thought that the supposed 'comics' were funny (dreadful, actually); and, secondly, that I looked upon 'Comic Relief' in the same way that I looked upon pain relief - that it was something to be stopped as quickly as possible.
ReplyDeleteComic Relief should be relief from comics, should it not? Although, in saying this, I would be reluctant to put these coarse and vulgar apologies for comedians in the same bracket as the Wizard, Adventure, Hotspur, and the Rover. These were proper comics.
Labour has opposed every defence cut under the Coalition, opposed closing Portsmouth, campaigned to ban job discrimination against reservists, prevented Western intervention in Syria. They are very much your party again.
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ReplyDeleteBut Labour's opposition was exploded as a complete lie-by a private letter written by Ed Miliband promising further cuts to defence after the Election.
Sadly for him, and fortunately for us, the letter was leaked.
So you-and Lindsay-have no excuses for not seeing through the ruse.
Seen only by you. Gosh.
ReplyDeleteYou honestly do not know how big a story that would be if it were true. You make that mistake routinely. It is almost charming.