Words come back to haunt you ?
Moving around an accumulation of old magazines due to decorating. Picked up 'RAF Yearbook 2008' and allowed myself to be shamefully distracted for the decorating...
"The MRA4 has to be able to do a maritime reconnaissance role. There are still plenty of countries in the world that own, for example, attack submarines, and when we are a nation - as I hope we will be - that owns two CVFs in the middle of the next decade, I would suggest that you're not going to play fast and loose with the safety of those vessels."
ACM Sir Clive Loader, Air Command, RAF.
Don't suppose he'd want to discuss the implications of a certain decision, bearing in mind that he's conservative candidate for Police Commissioner in Leicestershire.