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Old 3rd Aug 2011, 14:11
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Thank you McGoonagall - I believe you reinforce my point.
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Who is this muppet?

Just listened to an ex major, now labour MP interview on radio. When asked the tricky question about lack of kit for Iraq and Afg,he replied that he always had what he needed when he went on Ops, as if to airbrush history...

Anyone know who he is and what unit he served with?
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High Spirits,

In answer to your question. Probably a REMF QM.


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REMF???

I suspect he is Dan Jarvis. Ex Parachute Regiment. Not exactly a REMF.
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Just another MP willing to bend the facts...., I'm surprised and disappointed that an ex Serviceman could turn so quickly. If he had fronted up and admitted mistakes then I would be d'accord.
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Perhaps. Or maybe he actually did feel he had sufficient kit.
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Old 3rd Aug 2011, 18:37
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It doesn't look as though he got high enough up the hierarchy to be responsible for kit shortages (Major?)
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A relatively new Labour MP is hardly likely to complain about shortages of equipment for British Forces deployed by a Labour Government whose Purse Strings were controlled by Gordon Brown.
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It wasn't the erstwhile Eric Joyce by any chance? An ex Scots Div soldier commissioned into the education corps. A grade A f**kwit of the first order. His op experience in front line combat as an officer was not very much...
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Jarvis seems to acknowledge the cuts have gone too far... . From his Twatter () https://twitter.com/#!/DanJarvisMP

"Britain has never prospered or succeeded when we have turned away from being a force for good in the world. The Fox Review is dangerous."

"If you cut to the bone you inevitably limit your options. I don’t get how you can claim to be more adaptable with fewer choices options."

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Longer tours of duty 'will pile pressure on troops and families' - Home News, UK - The Independent

He was on BBC Radio Sheffield this morning though and maybe he was talking about UOR's? Haven't got time to check but you can get a replay at BBC - BBC Sheffield Programmes - Schedule, Tuesday 2 August 2011

Joyce, on the other hand looks a right twt.

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