Mind you, a WO from any of the Services would do a bloody good bull**** and bolleaux removal job at all levels of the civil service and government. Watching the operation would indeed be a fruitful and entertaining pastime.

Reminds me of a friend, now sadly gone, who took up a Naval Staff appointment and duly used the 6th Floor lift regularly at the same time as a very tall, erect, and immaculately smart bowler-hatted, Melton-overcoated, carnation-buttonholed, Brigade-tied, mustachioed gent, "Good morning, Sir! After you.", he would say only to receive the polite rejoinder "No, Sir - after you!" before they finally headed for the dizzy heiights of the 6th Floor and disappeared in different directions.

It all came to an abrupt end after a week or so when my friend's four star master told him "CDS has asked me to pass on the message that his Chief Clerk says that he would feel much more comfortable if you didn't call him 'Sir! "!:)

Jack

PS Said friend later made Flag Rank and a K so his politeness was perhaps not entirely in vain .....

Air Chief Marshal Lord Flasheart
 

A very thought-provoking thread this, but I believe the only name that counts is sadly missing. We need Lord Flasheart! Only His Lordship could manage this pox-ridden government.

After all, the "20 minuters" deserve someone who " treats his aeroplanes like his women, climbs into them twice a day and takes them to heaven and back." Woof woof!

If not "Flashy" then I suppose Edmund Blackadder may do..... but no, on second thoughts is just has to be General Sir Anthony Hogmanay Melchett. He is no dafter that Browne or Brown!

Pip pip ON

So to answer my own question, AM Steve Dalton is to be the man.:D

No prizes for guessing who the next CinC Air will be then:ok:

My breath has never been so bated - insert winkey thumbs-up "i'm in the know" type bolleuax