In the words of Phillip Blond, "RAF in such a perilous state we have to send 8 aircraft to
guarantee 2 can fly, after the next round of cuts what we have left - a balloon?" Don't let Richard Branson hear you say that, Phillip.
But never mind.
To accompany our reservists with no upper age limit and no boots, we are to have a new base in Bahrain (a country that I have repeatedly and vigorously defended, but that is not the present point), and of course we still have Trident.
How very well-defended we are.
How very well-equipped for the adventures on which we will insist on embarking.
But never mind.
To accompany our reservists with no upper age limit and no boots, we are to have a new base in Bahrain (a country that I have repeatedly and vigorously defended, but that is not the present point), and of course we still have Trident.
How very well-defended we are.
How very well-equipped for the adventures on which we will insist on embarking.
We last had a permanent Middle East base in 1971. No prizes for guessing which party was in government when it closed.
ReplyDeleteSsshhh! You must never mention things like that.
DeleteOf course, they deny that the Heath Government, which had their heroine in the Cabinet on every day of its existence, was anything to do with them.
Except when claiming that Heath was "brought down" by "Communist subversive" miners. He was in fact removed as Prime Minister by a rather more prosaic device called a General Election.
The current British Ambassador to Bahrain is little more than a PR man for the regime. He was appointed in 2010 after his predecessor was moved to Oman for daring to meet with the Opposition. The guy brought in instead has the same not very common surname as you. How about that?
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