MoD fury as Brown wields axe

[Chugalug2]

Hi Chappie, welcome back to the fray! As regards your petition it might be getting some competition from these 11 Downing Street ones that an arbitrary "Support Armed Forces" search produced.
http://search.petitions.pm.gov.uk/kbroker/number10/petitions/search.lsim?ha=1157&sc=number10&qt=Support+Armed+Forces
At least one of them got a 'bite', witness this thread:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=315845
In summary the pressure is on, albeit from many quarters. Whereas the only foe that the Armed Forces should really fear is the MOD; this government, including the MOD, really only fears public opinion and its electoral effects. As long as the British Public were ignorant of Cornet Wales whereabouts they were relaxed. As soon as we were privy to that information known to Terry and the rest of the world he is out of there. Don't relent, keep up the good work and they will relent, not because it is the right thing, they don't do that, but because it is the expedient thing!