the Govt can therefore send the Womens Institute instead.
With all the current deployments and the mess in Iraq, that idea may be given serious consideration.
There is an occasional column in
Private Eye entitled
View from the Sand Pit. It is usually of interest, and the current issue points out the irony that the "air assault brigade" will be dependent on supplies moved by truck from Karachi, and that there are only two roads northwards through areas in which there is resurgant Pakistani (and Afghan/Chechen) Taliban activity. Hmmm.
Why should British troops be risking their necks trying to stem the international drugs trade? Is there really no other way to prevent lowlife scum from indulging in this feckless pursuit? Lets see Euan Bliar in a flak jacket manning a GPMG on a Land Rover. Perhaps pater will be less likely to offer up a "blood price" in an attempt to impress his pal Dubya.