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looks like part 2 of the PR campaign has kicked off.
Having failed to make much ground with "poor soldiers, useless TA, defenceless Britain", it ...
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Littlejohn "Army betrayed by real enemy within"
Troops betrayed by the real enemy within | Mail Online
looks like part 2 of the PR campaign has kicked off.
Having failed to make much ground with "poor soldiers, useless TA, defenceless Britain", it looks like Littlejohn has been co-opted into a new line of "nasty politicians of both hues, its all the politicians fault"
He nearly gets there with "the criminal incompetence of those charged with running the Armed Forces.", but then skips on to the temporary elected political management, as opposed to examining the permanent in house uniformed management who lost the UK its last 2 wars (See Ledwidge's comments about Generals seeking an equivalent Falklands moment in Helmand to save the army from cuts - that worked out well didn't it?)
With the phraseology and targeting of "the desk jockeys at the Ministry of Defence and the land-locked admirals of the Royal Navy, who outnumber the ships available" but not mentioning points identified by Ledwidge last year of "more brigadiers than CR2s", it suggests he might have had an off the record chat with a senior army bod, currently serving or more likely ex (Dannatt seems to be being wheeled out to do some anti cut propaganda at the moment)
As has been highlighted by OOTS in a number of CA & NA threads recently, an unofficial PR campaign against cuts, but at the cost of common sense seems to have been running for a while.
The inter service sniping in this piece is quite apt, given 'Punching below our weight' by Frank Ledwidge published yesterdayLast edited by smallbrownprivates; 19-06-2012 at 14:30. Reason: its not all about the emotive stuff
The major didn't think of his superiors as fools, of course, since it would follow that everyone who obeyed them was a fool. He used the term 'unwise', and felt worried when he used it.
- 19-06-2012, 10:12 #2Senior Member
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They've been betrayed by every political party since fucking Mafeking. What's so special about now?
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Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB 
Very true. But you have to accept a begrudging admiration for their consistency.
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maybe they should be asking themselves why they're so betrayable.
the cunts."I think i am becoming a god."
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And distrusted by every Parliament since the 'Lord Protector' Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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Originally Posted by Draft Dodger
Simple, weapons are returned to the armoury, so, your unarmed military person is just another muppet to be fecked with.Your_Mums_Pal likes this.Everyone deserves a second chance, except those who try to shaft me and fail.
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Praise from Caesar! Littlejohn, Champion of Truth.
Tabloid Watch: Littlejohn doesn't do research shock
- 19-06-2012, 13:40 #8Well we've distrusted every Government since then... Originally Posted by Iolis Nutstrangler likes this.To eat well in England one must have breakfast three times a day
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London: its "buzz" and "vibrancy"... can be codewords for drugs, late-night noise and multi-culturalism run (literally) riot.
- 19-06-2012, 13:42 #9Now there's an idea.... Originally Posted by Iolis Arma Pacis Fulcra
Dyas and the Stormers!
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Not sure why he's whinging about the demise of Britain and how awful it is; I'm fairly sure he lives in a mansion in Florida...
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