mtoroshanga:
Do not get patronising I beg.
Well it's tempting I admit but no, you are right, your proposal must be argued with on its own merits, or lack of them. So I'll try to keep my eye on the ball and play that, not the man. You can suspect all you like about the trees, squirrels or bats that I might choose to hug. I assume that is your code for anyone who is not prepared to:
Support our boys no matter what!
in which case put me down as a card carrying hugger by all means. Somehow I just know that you are not, nor ever have been, in HM Forces for the philosophy that you express is totally alien to the ethos for which they stand and the law to which they abide. As to being in Mogadishu 1994, I'm very happy indeed to confirm that I was not there. With respect what has that to do with the price of fish? UK Military Law extends to wherever those bound by it are sent, without exception, endex. Finally I endorse everything that legallooptheloop has said, merely adding a barge-pole to his list of Inventory Items, for the use of.