Shadow Defence Secretary
I would sack her photographer, that photo makes her look like one of the muppets, she is probably charming, but that picture does her no justice. One of her main political interests is tackling climate change, that does not exactly sit well with having ones finger on the button.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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What are we worried about. Denis Healey, erstwhile defence minister, was a member of the Communist party.....
Speaking at a House of Lords discussion on his career last year, former Labour MP and House of Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd remembered how "intellectual thug" Healey's wartime service left him with a unique position of authority as Defence Secretary.
She recalled how on one occasion he was being "talked down to" by an Admiral who'd never seen wartime service - at which point he warned:
She recalled how on one occasion he was being "talked down to" by an Admiral who'd never seen wartime service - at which point he warned:
"Look here - if you go on talking to me in those terms, I'll crawl under this table and I'll chew your balls off!"
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Surprising to hear Healy being eulogised in this forum. He initiated some of the biggest defence cuts in history-for ideological not financial reasons. Admittedly head and shoulders above current Labour candidate.
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As long as she can stay awake she will have one over Fred Mulley.
On the other hand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Mulley
"...Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany..."
I think most of them were Treasury driven but some were political decisions - such as supporting the pull-out E of Suez. On the other hand he sold Buccaneers to the South Africans, gave the US the Chagos Islands and supported tactical & nuclear weapons
better than Duncan Sandys anyway
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Sandys is an easy target when his (in)famous review was in fact a response to the, then, shocking realisation that even spending our entire GDP on the latest and best aircraft couldn’t stop our cities being reduced to ash. In which event , under a Corbyn government he has already ruled out any possibility of retaliation
Well nothing changed there then................ Sandys was right...