I particularly like the part where he says "Each weekend, the tranquillity of the Welsh countryside is shattered by inane jets screaming through the mountain valleys playing at Lord of the Rings. With modern bombs, no plane need fly that low"
Anyone who doesn't realise that low level flight is done to avoid radar detection rather than for bombing accuracy has absolutely no business commenting on military matters. And to think he 'helped' with the 1997 defence review.
Be nice is some of Labour's loony left took their cue from this. Give the Coalition a lot more breathing space if the reds went back to spouting this sort of banal pacifism.
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I particularly like the part where he says "Each weekend, the tranquillity of the Welsh countryside is shattered by inane jets screaming through the mountain valleys playing at Lord of the Rings. With modern bombs, no plane need fly that low"
Anyone who doesn't realise that low level flight is done to avoid radar detection rather than for bombing accuracy has absolutely no business commenting on military matters. And to think he 'helped' with the 1997 defence review.
Truly gobsmacking.
Oooh nice fisking....oh hang on..
"Comment is Free". Security is not.
Mny years ago, we had a saying in my job.....'Idle and silly remarks not worthy of notice'.
it'd be funny, if this sort of thinking wasn't so breathtakingly dangerous.
The main purpose of Government is to protect it's people and to maintain the rule of law. Everything else is secondary.
My late father told me about people like Simon Jenkins and what they did in the 1930s.
"$%^&ing appeasers" they were called...
Be nice is some of Labour's loony left took their cue from this. Give the Coalition a lot more breathing space if the reds went back to spouting this sort of banal pacifism.