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Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 10360616)
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. |
What are we worried about. Denis Healey, erstwhile defence minister, was a member of the Communist party.....
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Originally Posted by 57mm
(Post 10361322)
What are we worried about. Denis Healey, erstwhile defence minister, was a member of the Communist party.....
He also had something in common with JC, not Jim C, he would not have pressed the tit. |
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: "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!" |
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. |
As long as she can stay awake she will have one over Fred Mulley. |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 10361696)
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..." |
Originally Posted by ShotOne
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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. 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 |
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...
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Wasn't Mulley in charge when the UK ordered the Nimrod AEW rather than the Sentry? A "jobs for the boys" waste of £1Bn rather than proven technology.
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If Healy is guilty of being the worst Defence Secretary because he chopped the TSR2? History and reading the facts from Kew says differently.
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Well I forgot about Healey destrustion of the any plans for CVA01, etc that is likely to get the FAA crowd up in arms. I am of the opinion of Jerry Pook on things mind.
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