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Forum: Military Aviation

18th May 2017, 13:52

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Posted By Finningley Boy

I would like to second Avitor's assessment, sorry...

I would like to second Avitor's assessment, sorry Beagle, but you can't expect a manifesto which scratches everyone's itch. What a lovely expression! however, I think the Lib Dems would now make a...

Forum: Military Aviation

17th May 2017, 12:14

Replies: 140

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Posted By Finningley Boy

It is quite reasonable position to take, the thin...

It is quite reasonable position to take, the thin ice would be the SDSR which everything will get poured into should the election go to the Labour Party. There has always been the Marxist and...

Forum: Military Aviation

8th May 2017, 09:24

Replies: 140

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Posted By Finningley Boy

I don't believe what I'm reading on this thread,...

I don't believe what I'm reading on this thread, who has suggested in even the most cryptic fashion the notion of Britain leaving NATO? And to imagine that leaving the EU may influence this in...

Forum: Military Aviation

7th May 2017, 16:28

Replies: 140

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Posted By Finningley Boy

I would have thought the idea of us leaving NATO...

I would have thought the idea of us leaving NATO was ridiculous. NATO has nothing to do with the EU, NATO was formed in 1949, the EU in its current form in 1992. The common market was formed,...

Forum: Military Aviation

1st May 2017, 15:55

Replies: 140

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Posted By Finningley Boy

CC, I never lose my own personal capacity to...

CC,

I never lose my own personal capacity to be utterly bewildered, are you saying that the DM (I'm always prepared to accept they miss the meaning of intended satire, deliberately, just as many...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Apr 2017, 22:39

Replies: 140

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Posted By Finningley Boy

CC, I dare say that Tony Blair did oversee a...

CC,

I dare say that Tony Blair did oversee a rise in spending on defence, he also presided over a farrago of military interventions, not all unjustified, but culminating in Iraq in 2003. When he...

Forum: Military Aviation

30th Apr 2017, 00:30

Replies: 140

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Posted By Finningley Boy

Further to my earlier comment, indeed the Tories...

Further to my earlier comment, indeed the Tories are every bit as capable of making quite severe defence cuts, usually there is a practical rationale; Duncan Sandys and the all Missile Defence Force...

Forum: Military Aviation

29th Apr 2017, 14:24

Replies: 140

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Posted By Finningley Boy

Just to jump in, F-111 was cancelled following a...

Just to jump in, F-111 was cancelled following a massive public spending programme by Labour (Wilson led) on top of a significant devaluation of sterling, leaving the RAF to accept Lord Mounbatten's...

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