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Old 31st Dec 2011, 10:22
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Tiger_mate
 
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Sadly I am punch drunk with shock, bizarre decision making, and one wonders where the lunatics really are.

All they care about is money..
I have no argument with that statement at all.

I have had eyes on a letter from the last Defence Minister in which the 3 page ramble can be condensed to:

I will break apart the UK military until 2015 at which point I will rebuilt it with a target date of 2020 for UK Defence Plc. ....with hints that MPA will be part of the 2020 solution.

I heard a rumour of Pumas collectively becoming a reserve sqn which may then place it in somebody elses budget and therefore a possible stay of execution. Balanced by more contempory rumours that nobody has a clue what is happening; which is probably the truth of the matter. A factor maybe that the Olympics are to be followed by the UK holding another big games: European Championships? in a year or two which will need in-place security measures.

AL1. 2017 World Athletics Championships to be hosted by London.
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