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Old 1st Feb 2015, 11:08
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Re: anonimous posters

The issue is that Queen's Regulations (QRs) specifically exclude those serving from having an identifiable political view in public - so if our personas go public as you suggest then we would be guilty of breaking QRs!

As iraven eluded to in post #29, the military has had to be non-political since the times of the end of the English Civil War - as he says "thems the rules".

Now that Wg Cdr (Rtd) Gardner is retired she is now free to spout her political views and also post whatever nonsense she likes on her own webpage - that is the beauty of our free country that the military we all serve/served in protects.

Make sense?

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