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2008-01-28 Britain

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Posted by lotp 2008-01-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Might also have something to do with what is "driving" citizens "Away" from the UK in record numbers.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-28 01:16|| 2008-01-28 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 MPs are redirecting their high salaries and generous vacation benefits to those military personel who they feel deserve it more than they.
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Posted by wxjames 2008-01-28 11:28|| 2008-01-28 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe it is because, just like when Carter lived in the WH, the troops and prospective troops saw very clearly that the gov't did NOT have their back. That recent Iranian Sailor retrieval mission went so well didn't it, cousins????
spineless fuc@s

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-01-28 13:45|| 2008-01-28 13:45|| Front Page Top

#4 If you want a decent military, you have to fund it, support it, support the families, provide appropriate services (health, safety, etc.), and show respect for it. Britain - all of Europe - fails in every respect. One of these days, they're going to need the military, and it won't be there because of stupid short-sightedness by the pols. Too bad - I liked Europe.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-01-28 17:28|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-28 17:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The UK has "downsized" so much Hurricane Katrina would have stretched them past their limit. The government's money is being sucked dry by the migration in of unemployed and underemployed and the imgration out of the productive people.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-01-28 17:30|| 2008-01-28 17:30|| Front Page Top

#6 And the productive people are leaving the UK.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-01-28 18:23|| 2008-01-28 18:23|| Front Page Top

#7 No problem, the Royal Navy can just reintroduce the press gangs like they used to have 200 years ago. I'm not sure - did the army have something similar?

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2008-01-28 19:35|| 2008-01-28 19:35|| Front Page Top

#8
utiny on the Bounty" comes to mind, the mutineers got away clean, sank the bounty, Captain Queeg was court marshaled, and the mutineers decendants still live on Pitcairn island today.

Not the Royal Navy's finest hour, what?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-28 21:39|| 2008-01-28 21:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Captain Queeg?

Posted by gromky 2008-01-28 23:04|| 2008-01-28 23:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Captain Queeg was the reincarnation of Captain Bligh. Sez so right here.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-01-28 23:27|| 2008-01-28 23:27|| Front Page Top

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