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seafuryfan
9th Jan 2010, 09:13
Didn't this bloke have something to do with defence? I seem to remember him generating plenty of chat on pprune..:ok:
BBC News - Geoff Hoon may face no confidence vote (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8449704.stm)
Gentleman Jim
9th Jan 2010, 15:47
I just wonder why it has taken so long! The man is a BuffHoon.
Gentleman Jim
Where is another Defence Buffoon "Doctor" John Reid? The man who observed that we would be in and out of Afghanistan in 3 years without a shot being fired! Where do we find these people?
Is that not one of the criteria to be employed in government
Thelma Viaduct
9th Jan 2010, 19:12
It cracks me up how the government & mod get slated on here constantly (and rightly so IMO) yet anyone that thinks their decisions (same idiotic thieving dishonest government) to send troops to fight wars for BS reasons are either against the troops or in some way disloyal to the country (when in actual fact the opposite is the case), tossers.
Tourist
9th Jan 2010, 19:14
Ironic that he may end up unemployed not for being a crap defence minister, but for trying to do the decent thing and get rid of Brown.
Finnpog
9th Jan 2010, 20:39
This story just in The Times
Now Geoff Hoon savages Gordon Brown over Afghanistan war - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6982440.ece)
TCH places the blame for underfunding the military - specifically the SH fleet - at the door of the Member for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath
davejb
9th Jan 2010, 21:23
Defence ministers since the year dot have tried to cut whatever was in place on the day they arrived - oddly enough they also all lie like cheap Changi watches.... a palace revolution failed, so in the normal course if events the revolutionaries will now be executed in various interesting ways. Serves them right, if they wanted to be treated as human beings they shouldn't have become lying scumbag ratbags... sorry, I meant to say 'politicians'.
I think Brown should stay, he's the best chance we have of getting rid of labour after all.
Dave
I for one do not care what happens to him but plead with him to bring Brown down with him!!!! He must have some great stories to tell and if that gets Bliar jailed as well - all the better.
Pontius Navigator
10th Jan 2010, 11:59
I wonder how Buff really did at the MOD.
Like Healey before him, he served a full 5 year term, before they fitted revolving doors to the office.
I am not trying to defend him but I wonder whether he was actually not as ineffective as we thought.
Union Jack
10th Jan 2010, 12:48
Hoon for the axe?
No, the House of Lords in all probability, irrespective of how well or badly he is deemed to have performed.
Jack