'Last night an outraged member of the ground crew at the base stormed: "It was just a total jolly and all at the public’s expense." '
Been at the dung again, Baldrick?
Translated, surely it was "Bleedin' zobs swan off ter Italy an' we don't get to go. Not fair, 's a bleedin liberty, innit"
Well at least that's 6 jets you don't have to work on for a few days, you moaning git. Now cut along and stop complaining.