Photo shoots of State Leaders has always been a part of the public presentation since the first sepia images in the early-mid 19th Century. The furore in Scottish papers about the P-8 getting aloft and heading to Waddington and back, a number of operational/training/air test requirements could justify this I'm sure, is pure confected outrage to support the increasingly desperate arguments for Independence. If Nicola was able to call upon the very same service support for one of her public presentations, I'm sure the Scottish independence leaning elements of the media would characterize (spin) the event with a different approach. I really get more and more irritated with the blatant attempts by such people, in politics and the media etc, to carry on like this in the expectation that sufficient folk are simple enough and willing to be outraged enough to swallow all this.
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