Helicopters not taking off
Did you catch the baffling story of incompetence in the Times about the ludicrous mismanagement of the purchase of eight Chinook helicopters? Apparently at the moment we only have 12 in Afghanistan…. And one of those was knocked out by a man with a beard firing a second-hand rocket at it the other [...]
Dying to Vote in Afghanistan
A shameful statistic was released yesterday. We in this country might be obsessed with an idealistic view of democracy - but Afghanistanis evidently don’t share our enthusiasm.
Apparenly, only 150 Afghan voters dared to go to the polls in the area of Helmand province where four British soldiers sacrificed their lives to help [...]
Prime Minister under fire on helicopters
Earlier today our much criticised and somewhat useless Prime Minister Gordon Brown took some serious hits under fire at Prime Minister’s Question Time. Rather predictably he was facing a repeat of the difficult questions on soldiers’ kit. Of particular interest was the lack of helicopters available to British armed forces in a prolonged [...]