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Old 2nd Oct 2011, 22:42
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TOFO
I mean, it's not like anybody on Pprune was sounding a note of caution amongst all the triumphant rhetoric of two years ago. Words to the effect of..."If you think an incoming Tory government is good news for the Armed Forces you gotta be out of your tiny mind".
Spot on there TOFO

We're totally screwed whoever takes power, and you know what, I 'm beyond caring. TS 25Apr10
A quick scan of the pre election Conservative manifesto together with Camo and Foxy's rhetoric, was enough to convince me an inevitable Tory victory would not produce the hoped-for military dividend a la 79 Maggie landslide. It doesn't make me feel good to be proved right - on the other hand, I was wrong, I do care.

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There was a time when political leaders could think straight, what the hell has happened?
Er, the job of politician became DE requiring only a CV with any combination of: Student's Union, Intern, Research Assistant, SPAD scrawled on it.

Not a person spec your namesake would recognise.
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