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Will Ban On Weed Lead Jail Prisoner Vote Campaigner John Hirst Back To Jail?
JOHN Hirst is the convicted killer out on licence who uses the European Convention on Human Rights to give prisoners the vote.
Hirst told the BBC’s Jeremy Vine Radio Show that he’s breached the terms of that licence by smoking marijuana. A formal complaint has been made to the law.
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Posted: 5th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama Was Defeated By Blood Of Jesus: Photo
BARACK Obama was not beaten in the mid-term by disappointed voters, the Tea Party movement or a recession that continues to bite – he was defeated by Jesus.
“THE BLOOD OF JESUS AGAINST OBAMA HISTORY MADE 4 NOVEMBER A TALIBAN MUSLIM ILLEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT USA HUSSEIN”
And what with Obama being a Christian and all, that is really bad news for him.
Had only Democrats believed the voices and got the Muslim they voted for. Obama let them down.
Andrew Sullivan says:
Sarah Palin favorited a tweet by Ann Coulter linking to this beauty
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Posted: 4th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Kim Jong-Il’s Many Names And Anti-US Propaganda Posters
NORTH Korea is not a confident country. Before a collection of North Korean propaganda posters that all the US to be bloodthirsty sadists, a look at Wikipedia’s list of all the titles Supreme Bouffant Kim Jong-il has garnered:
Superior Person
Sun of Communist Future
Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradely Love
Beloved and Respected General
Invincible and Iron-Willed Commander
World’s Leader of The 21st century
Glorious General, Who Descended From Heaven
(Spotter: @matthiasrascher; via Kottke)
Posted: 4th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Allowing Paedophiles, Murderers And Robbers To Vote Is Wrong
CRIMINALS in jail are to get the right to vote in elections. Frauds, liars and cheats get to vote for, well, frauds, liars and cheats. But let’s not nihilistic about politics. It matters. Cranmer writes:
THIS interview is quite sickening: His Grace neither agrees with John Hirst, nor does he feel inclined to defend John Hirst’s right to say it.
This odious individual murdered Bronia Burton, his 63-year-old landlady, by bludgeoning her to death with an axe.
He then went to the kitchen to make coffee and drank it, waiting for Mrs Burton to die.
Slowly.
In agony.
He doesn’t like being called a murderer, because he was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In the event, he served 25 years due to a number of violent crimes he committed whilst incarcerated.
He is completely unrepentent, believing remorse to be ‘a middle class thing‘.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Renee Ellmers Anti-Muslim Video Helps Secure Seat In Congress
THE US elections have promoted Renee Ellmers, a registered nurse in North Carolina, to a congressional seat. What to see her anti-Muslim campaign video? No mosuq at ground zero, says she.
Well, no-one wants one:
Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Prison Voters Get Chance To Vote For Frauds, Cheats And Liars
PRISONERS will be able to vote for the crooks, vagabonds, charlatans and frauds who make up the House of Commons.
Says one councillor in Birmingham:
“Gone are those dark days of persuading people to lie and cheat to get out man elected. Now we can just tap into a readymade key demographic of liars and cheats.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Presidential Candidate Iowahawk Is Screening Calls: Obama Is Also Out
IOWAHAWK explains the US voting rigmarole to the Britis: Obama out.
You Have 24 Unanswered Messages
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Hello, this is Congressman Chuck Harbinson calling to remind you to vote tomorrow, Tuesday November 2nd. As your representative from the 3rd District, I have worked hard to bring positive change through my support for the Health Care Reform Act, as well as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which created the new Turnip ethanol plant and nearly a dozen new high-paying jobs right here in the Quint Cities. I am proud to have earned the endorsement of the Claxon-Ledger, the United Turnip Workers Union, and President Obama. So when you cast that vote tomorrow, Tuesday November 2nd, won’t you please pull the lever for me, Congressmen Chuck Harbinson? Thanks, and have a great evening.
*BEEP*
Hello, this is Congressman Chuck Harbinson again. Look, I just wanted to make sure you didn’t get the wrong impression from that last robocall. I think I mentioned something about an endorsement from President Obama. Okay, yeah, he endorsed me, technically, but really, don’t read too much into that. It’s really more of a formality kinda thing. Candidly, I’m considered a pretty big independent here in DC, reaching across the aisle and all that. So pull that lever tomorrow for me, Congressman Chuck “The Maverick” Harbinson.
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What exactly do we know about Mike Pflugenboom? Sure, Mike Pflugenboom says he is a small businessman. But who is pulling Mike Pflugenboom’s strings? The Claxon-Ledger reports that Mike Pflugenboom has taken nearly $5000 in secret donations from Big Turnip and their foreign friends. Mike Pflugenboom — too extreme for the 3rd District, too extreme for America. I’m Chuck Harbinson and I approve this message.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Silvio Berlusconi Has Not Luck With Beautiful Lesbians
SILVIO Berlusconi uses his position as the Italian Pime Misniter to say that whatever the truth of his relationship with a 17-year-old stripper called Karima Keyek it is “better to be passionate about beautiful girls than gay“.
Gays girls agree – and not just the ones who prefer lesbianism to inspecting Silvio’s collection of small statuettes of Milan Cathedral. All the beautiful girls who don’t fancy Silvio are gay, or washing their hair…
Silvio Berlusconi’s Annus Horribilis In Pictures
Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Britain And France Are One Country: They Win The War And We Get Sex Tips
THE good news is that the Aircraft carrier being built to serve UK forces will have planes: French ones.
But don’t panic because Liam Fox bemoans the “great deal of hysteria” and explains:
“Under the existing Nato system our troops could come under Turkish or Polish command.”
See. No need to panic. And the UK and France will also share nuclear research. But not with Turkey, because that would be madness, wouldn’t it?
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Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Libertarian Prostitute Starchild Wins California School Vote
CALIFORNIAN voters can elect ‘Starchild’, an erotic service provider to the Board of Education in San Francisco. Starchild, born Chris Fox, is a libertarian, amber of the local SF Libertarian Party. He was once in the U.S. Army Reserves.
He once beat a prostitution rap:
“We were not denying I might have committed prostitution on other occasions; we were just saying I didn’t do it on this occasion.”
He’s popular among the youth. In a mock poll of high school students, Starchild won a youth vote. Says he:
“I’m delighted and honoured that San Francisco high school students once again made a pro-freedom, Libertarian candidate and erotic service provider their first choice, to represent them on the body that controls the city’s government-run schools.”
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Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
John Boehner’s An ‘Asshat’: Johnny Cash Daughter’s Fails On Republican’s Name
JOHN Boehner is the Republic house minority leader going into the Obama mid-terms and no product of nominative determinism. Americans have moved on the certainty of Obama’s Yes We Can to vote on Maybe We Might. But never mind the politics and hype – get a load of that Boehner.
Says Boehner:
Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.
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Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
The Best Signs From The Jon Stewart Colbert Restore Fear Rally: The Wit And The Witless
PHOTOS from the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert restore fear and restore sanity rally show that the left wing can be as funny as the right – albeit when placards holders are not being earnest, too-clever by half and dumb. Of course, people who hold placards are the same type of people whatever their political bent. They are the greater placard waving community. Enjoy these photos of the placards. Work your way through them all. (Some of the best ones are at the end of the gallery.) Was it really such a good idea to advertise your wit to lack of it on the top of a stick?
The best tea-party protest signs
Posted: 2nd, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
The Best Muslim Signs From The Stewart Colbert Rally For Placards
AT the Stewart and Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington DC, people waved placards. Some of them were unfunny / amusing / self-effacing / plain awful – some of them were waved by Muslims. The greater placard waving community embraces all comers. Here’s a gallery of the better Muslim ones. Spotter: AltMuslim:
The Best Signs From The Jon Stewart Colbert Restore Fear Rally: The Wit And The Witless
Posted: 1st, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Obama is The Humourless West Wing President: An Award-Winning Work Of Fiction
I NEVER watched the West Wing. Maureen Dowd says Obama is the WEst Wing President:
At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode.
But now he acts like he really thinks he’s on “West Wing,” gliding through an imaginary, amber-lit set where his righteous self-regard is bound to be rewarded by the end of the hour.
They liked Obama because he made them like themselves more. Then the Americans began to see what he actually did and stood for…
Kathleen Parker looks at Obama on Jon Stewart last week. Obama has no humour:
Stewart had just asked Obama how he could square his campaign mantra of “change” with hiring economic advisers such as Larry Summers, who looks the same as those who had served in previous administrations.
In response, Obama said that Summers had done a “heck of a job.” Whereupon, Stewart said, “You don’t want to use that phrase, dude.”
Everyone got the joke. George W. Bush used the same words to commend Michael “Brownie” Brown after his disastrous performance as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency following Hurricane Katrina. Translation: You’re fired.
Everyone got the joke, except for Obama. He got it eventually, after seeing the “oops” expression on Stewart’s face, but he couldn’t take the joke. There’s a world of difference. Instead of laughing at himself, he turned to the audience – a beat too late – and said, “Pun intended”.
No, it wasn’t. Anyone watching could see that. He slipped. Obama is a nice guy and he was trying to say something nice about Summers, and “heck of a job” tumbled out. No big deal. We get it. Stuff happens. But Obama couldn’t roll with the gut punch.
In that, among other moments, Obama revealed his fatal flaw. He has no sense of humour. He might be able to laugh at a joke. He can even tell one.
But what Obama revealed was that he has no sense of humour about himself. This is huge.
Posted: 1st, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Illegal Holborn Rave Was A Smokers’ Revolution And Against State Control
THE illegal rave in Holborn, London, was an act of defiance to state control over everything – even our music:
THERE is much more to this than meets the eye. While the Daily Mail squawks indignantly about an “illegal” rave, as if it was something special and different, barely a weekend goes by without something very similar, on exactly the same scale, being held somewhere in London. The only thing different here was that it was slightly more “in your face” than usual, with a central London location instead of the East End, Brixton or some such.
The “rave” scene, however – or “skumtech” as the players call it – is a direct response to the over-regulation of public music performances, where music must be licensed and approved by the state, even down to genre, with high taxes on drinks and door fees that make normal places non viable – to say nothing of the smoking ban.
It is not a rebellion, as such – simply a lot of people doing their own thing, in their own way. It only becomes an issue if the police move in and try to stamp their authority on the event. Normally, they keep a respectable distance and do not interfere.
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Posted: 1st, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (10)
Health Minister Hit By Red Pain: Sod Uninjured
IRELAND Health Minister Mary Harney had red paint tossed over her in protest at health cuts. And – get this – Harney was struck while attending a turning-of-the-sod ceremony for a new health facility at Cherry Orchard Hospital, Ballyfermot. Sod ‘em all, eh…
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Posted: 1st, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Jon Stewart Explains The Effort Of Hate: Photos
JON Stewart instructs his followers in what hate really looks likes-like:
If we amplify everything, we hear nothing … There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and Theocrats. But those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers and real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult not only to those people, but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate.
Posted: 1st, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Christine O’Donnell’s Pubic Hair Turns Gawker Into A Tabloid Whore
GAWKER is in a spot of bother with its story on Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s pubic hair. The story is written the first person and details an alleged no-sex sexual encounter between the writer, then aged 25, and Tea Party favourite O’Donnell in her mid-thirties. The story is three years old.
THIS Guy Sold The Story – Dustin Dominiak
It’s the kind of thing you might read in the British tabloids. It’s a salacious, women-hating, sexually-driven smear. The US does not have a tabloid industry like in the UK. It’s tabloids are celebrity targeted and weekly. But Gawker fills the gap for a daily read pretty well. And now it has entered into red-top territory:
O’Donnell’s camp released a statement saying:
“This story is just another example of the sexism and slander that female candidates are forced to deal with.”
That’s right. The tabloids hate ambitious women. If they are also attractive and sexually active, the tabloids will go for them. Gawker is just a tabloid doing what tabloids do.
Photos Of Democrat Politician Krystal Ball Sucking A Dildo Strapped To A Man’s Face
Gawker milks the attention, as it must, and sticks the statement up at the top of its site. It’s the Daily Mail’s Jan Moir approach to journalism – so long as it is offensive, bigoted and sensational and the media becomes the story – good job:
The National Organization for Women (NOW) on Thursday condemned the tabloid website Gawker for publishing an anonymous account: NOW issued a statement late Thursday stating that “sexist, misogynist attacks against women have no place in the electoral process, regardless of a particular candidate’s political ideology.”
“NOW repudiates Gawker’s decision to run this piece. It operates as public sexual harassment. And like all sexual harassment, it targets not only O’Donnell, but all women contemplating stepping into the public sphere,” said NOW president Terry O’Neill.
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Posted: 29th, October 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (6)
Hitler’s Breakfast Was Bread, Marmalade And The Daily Mail
ADOLF Hitler took bread and marmalade for breakfast. He was “mild” mannered and polite during personal exchanges. He hated being watched, preferring the quiet life and to mind his own business.
SS operative Schutze Obernigg, an Austrian deserter, told the Allied forces:
“Hitler was grey and bent, but wore a very satisfied expression. He is mild on personal contact but apt to bang tables and shout during conferences.”
In short, Hitler was the perfect Daily Mail reader, clacking his marmalade-coated tongue at the daily news and banging his fist on the table when anyone impolite or political correctness had gone mad.
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Posted: 29th, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
United Kingdom 18% More Corrupt Than Denmark – Fact
ACCORDING to Transparency International, the United Kingdom is corrupt. Counties are rated in terms of “cleanliness”. Denmark is the cleanest country on Earth. The lands of open sandwiches and Johnny Jensen scores 9.3 out of 10. It ties for top spot with New Zealand and Singapore.
Finland, Norway and Sweden are all in the Top 10, thus proving that the people who compiled this survey do not consider the assembly instructions for flat-packed furniture to constitute an evil lie.
The United Kingdom is the 20th least corrupt country in the world. It scores 7.6 on the corrupt-ometer. Britons are around 18% more corruptible than Danes. But we are less dishonest than Americans, who languish three places below – separated from us by Chile and Belgium.
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Posted: 26th, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Boris Johnson’s Boobs And Bums At Big Draw
LONDON’S Mayor Boris Johnson shows off a drawing he made at City Hall after taking lessons from Britain’s top cartoonists including (left to right) Steve Bell of The Guardian, Charles Peattie of the Daily Telegraph, Tim Sanders of The Independent and Michael Heath of The Spectator, to launch London’s Big Draw Weekend.
Anyone care to interpret the image..?
Posted: 23rd, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Nadine Dorries’ Blogging ‘Lies’ Are A Public Service
NADINE Dorries has a blog. The Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire writes things that are not true. As she says:
My blog is 70% fiction and 30% fact. It is written as a tool to enable my constituents to know me better and to reassure them of my commitment to Mid Bedfordshire. I rely heavily on poetic licence and frequently replace one place name/event/fact with another. – Letter to the Commissioner from Ms Nadine Dorries MP, 1 March 2010
If ever there were a comment that will come back to haunt an MP that surely is it.
Tim Ireland has been onto Dorries for ages. His full version of events is here.
Dorries “twice moved her primary residence, an omission that was described by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards as ‘not acceptable’.”
The watchdog reported that Miss Dorries had been “in breach of the rules of the House” by failing to tell the authorities when she moved her main home to Stratford-upon-Avon in July 2007, and again when she changed address to another property in the area in January 2009.
Neighbours “broadly confirmed” her claim that she spent most of her time in the Cotswolds, and the allegation that she breached rules on allowances was “not upheld”. – Telegraph
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Posted: 22nd, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
There Are No Spending Cuts: It’s All A Lie
GEORGE Osborne is making cuts that will kill/ save the economy and you – a view formed on what news organ you read. But Richard North can’t see any cuts:
THERE are no cuts. I say again, there are no cuts. What the Cleggerons are talking about is a reduction in the rate of increase in public expenditure as compared with the June budget. This is helpfully summarised here (see left) and the source is here.
You will see that the current financial year expenditure is £696.8 billion. By 2014-15, the projected expenditure was to rise to £757.5 billion. Little George is now proposing that this increase is limited £739.8 billion. This now becomes a 17.7 percent “cut”, albeit that expenditure is still increasing.
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Posted: 21st, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
George Osborne Is A Riot 4 Austerity: All Views On Government’s Spending Cuts
GEORGE Osborne’s spending review is making headlines. Here’s what the experts and papers are saying:
The Green Dream Made Real
Time and again, liberal thinkers have told us that we must learn to live with less “stuff”, for the sake of our own sanity and for the good of the people-plagued planet. So don’t be fooled by their crocodile tears today – they laid the cultural foundation stones for this age of hardship.
These austerity hypocrites have short memories. This week, the Guardian’s George Monbiot wrote an angry piece about the Tory-led cuts agenda, claiming that it will help the rich and hurt the rest.
“When we stagger out of our shelters to assess the damage, we’ll discover that we have emerged into a different world, run for their benefit, not ours”, he said.
This is the same Monbiot who wrote a piece in 2007 titled ‘Bring on the recession’.
“I hope that the recession now being forecast by some economists materialises”, he said, because only a recession could give us “the time we need to prevent runaway climate change”.
A recession would hurt poor people, he acknowledged – but that was a price worth paying to halt out-of-control economic growth.
Inspired by Monbiot, in 2008 some deep greens kick-started a campaign called Riot 4 Austerity – which says it all. – Brendan O’Neill
Al Qaeda Dunnit
Al Qaeda have this morning issued a new video in which they claim full responsibility for the devastating Spending Review which rocked the UK yesterday.
The video, which appears to have been put together in something of a hurry, shows several Al Qadea members reading from a list of measures they have claim to have imposed on the UK in a concerted attack on Western imperialism. – News Arse
The Worse Off Are…
However the Institute for Fiscal Studies has told Sky News the spending plans are “regressive” and a chart on page 98 of the official document reveals the bottom 10% of earners will lose the most money from the cuts.
Acting director Carl Emmerson said: “The Treasury’s own figures show the benefit cuts announced today will affect the bottom half more than the top half.
“The cuts to public sector spending will also affect the poorest half rather than the top half. Therefore, everything we have heard about so far indicates the measures are regressive.” – Sky News
Middle Is The New Lower
Households on incomes of £48,700 or more will lose an average of £10,000 during four years of austerity as the Coalition battles to wipe out an unprecedented budget deficit. – Mail
We Are Doomed!
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is taking people for fools if he believes the country will buy his spin that the deepest spending cuts in living memory are fair and unavoidable.
There’s nothing fair about hitting the least well-off hardest, persecuting the sick for being ill and the jobless for losing their jobs.
And there’s nothing unavoidable about ideologically-driven cuts which risk plunging Britain into a second recession. – Mirror
We Win!
In fact, Osborne’s declared road to fiscal sanity has already paid firm dividends in the drop in cost of government borrowing and enough economic confidence to see the creation of some 330,000 jobs this year so far. And the OBR forecasts that the private sector will create three jobs for every one cut in the private sector. – Fraser Nelson
The Plot
Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson warned the cuts announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review could end up “stifling“ the economic recovery…
For some on the Government benches it was an “ideological objective,” he claimed.
The shadow chancellor acknowledged the “deficit has to be paid down” but said: “Today’s reckless gamble with people’s livelihoods runs the risk of stifling the fragile recovery.” – NeBusiness
George Knows
The back pocket has a history, of course. In his splendid The New MachiavelliJonathan Powell describes how Gordon Brown would also hold back a ‘hidden surprise’ in his Budgets designed to guarantee him Labour cheers when he sat down. “We knew Gordon would have ‘a back pocket’ to pay for that surprise somewhere within the spending limits, and Tony’s constant quest was to find it first and spend it on something else…We got so desperate in 2004 to find out what Gordon was up to that we refused to set a date for the spending round until he would tell us the content.” – Benedict Brogan
More views and news to follow…
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Posted: 21st, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
The Anglo-French Navy Is Here: Lieutenant-Command Thomas Woodrooffe Was Right
THE news that Liam Fox is countenancing running the Navy’s new carriers without aircraft seems, on the face of it, an admirable solution. Without the noise and disruption of these smelly jets, the new generation of sailors will be able to listen to their iPods in peace, while the MoD can rent the vessel out as a floating conference suite, complete with helipads and tennis courts with a 360° sea view, writes Richard North.
He adds:
In the meantime, the BBC has learned that “at least one” of the new carriers will be redesigned so that it can deploy normal fighter aircraft that do not need a Harrier-style vertical lift capability.
Dr Fox says that there would be “interoperability” so strike fighter aircraft from allies such as France could land on UK aircraft carriers, and vice versa.
So what have we here? No British aircraft, an Anglo-French agreement on joint carrier operation and now a carrier design change that allows for the operation of French aircraft on the British carrier.
And as more and more details leak out, you can see the game – the Armed Forces are being stripped of capability to the point that they can no longer operate independently, even within the context of an alliance. We will have to look to “allies” for operational components just so that we can field our forces…
That it should happen now, under a (partially) Tory government is not a surprise. Historically, the Tories have always been keenest on European military “co-operation” and the die was cast when Portillo signed the co-operation deal in 1996. Euro-Navy here we come, with the European Carrier Group as the flagship operation.
We are now simply seeing the end came of a process that has been under development for decades, and which started with Heath and his merry men.
Which reminds us – THE FLEET! really is disappearing:
Posted: 19th, October 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
