+++ Cameron Speech Welcomes General Dannatt +++
Confirms he will go to the Lords.
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Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”
DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
at least one decent bloke in the lords then
Mmmmmmmmmm, a man in uniform.
Way to expand the Tories’ appeal in the North, Lord Madelson
Wouldn’t know, I’ve never been there.
I am the Director Of Northern Affairs of the Libertarian Alliance.
http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com
I will not have you insulting The Towns of My People, by calling them “shitty”.
“Shitty” is what Downing Street is, after people like Blair, Brown and Major. Not to mention Heath, whose shit was not properly cleaned out before Thatcher found she had too much on her hands (sic) and had to “step in”. Wilson was marginally worse too. So was “Supershit” Mac.
Could I have some guacamole with that bagel?
No, use your boyfriend.
Places like Preston, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley, Darwen, nelson, Colne, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Manchester (yes it too) Liverpool, Warrington, Lymm, St Helens, Ormskirk, Southport, Chorley, Leyland, Todmorden (ever heard of that? It has a nice market where you can get stuff) Halifax, Skipton, and the like. Do not knock them.
Not Formby: it has “foot ballists”. Women wear their prada to walk the dog.
Multicultural cesspits, you mean? ‘Spot the white man’ and all that.
Watford? That’s in the North innit?
Dogshagger. Burk.
Have you ever been to any of the places above? Many of them are extremely white. I’ve been to Leyland quite a few times and I think i’ve only ever seen 3 non white people there. Two of them were french.
Chesterfield IS a dump.
You ever been to Todmorden???
Played a lot of that list in the plate at Bedians sevens when I were fitter and younger. Like a mandlescum soiree there were ringers galore!
what about Rawtenstall??
When I was a lad, we kids regarded the far bank of the Thames as up north.
What about Cumbria!!!!!
Cumbria is the real north.
Shit went through “Mac” like shit through an arse-greased Prime Minister. We should never forget that.
Yes, but Baron of Hartlepool, have you been to Hartlepool.
http://www.knowhere.co.uk/Hartlepool/Cleveland/Northern-England/info/local
Of course I haven’t. For God’s sake man, they hang monkeys there, what on Earth would they do to a homosexualist?
But why make him a Lord. He doesn’t have to be Lorded to give advice. Dave is showing signs as being as bad as Gordon with this uneleted Government stuff.
Unnecessary and preposterous. If Cameroon continues like McUckoo it can only mean the whisperers in the ears want the British to get used to the idea of undemocracy.
If this stuff is on offer, I want to be Lord Billy of Cyco, minister in the Lords for British Psychobilly.
Making him a lord helps to re-balance the number of New Labour lords stuffed into the HoL by New Labour to guarantee their bad laws are passed mostly unhindered.
So far not the best speech I have hard from Dave. Too Corny for me at at times it sounds insincere.
Let’s hear what the “big beast” blogger Guido and Ian Dale think of the Tory conference
The shame of Guido being called a Tory blogger!
If you listen to Guido at 1:05 on the clip, he makes the claim that George Osborne has “skewered the Opp” and then corrects himself aka Toenails, Paxo: “the Government…”
Fallability is just a fact of life, though obviously not as interesting as sex.
But the government themselves have told us they are the opposition. Insurgents was their term for themselves.
Where did you get your nice tie Guido?
Brilliant Speech, made Broons mublings sound pathetic and Cleggs sound as far fetched as shit from China
My sister Agnes and I are using a new eye shadow called “Groovy Tint”
No live feed then?
http://newslion.blogspot.com/
I want to reply to myself, get a life you GIT
http://newslion.blogspot.com/
What about the Herreditaries? Is he going to be putting them (ALL) back, or just fucking about with the Titanic’s deckchairs?
And I’d not be surprised if most of them refused: they have been sleighted and insulted enough.
The hereditary peers are less corrupted then the new bunch New Labour stuffed in the HoL who have become the unelected party line, just what the country DIDN’T need, a carbon copy of the Commons – but unelected.
doh
Shut up Pienaar. I want to hear Hague!
Hopefully he is going to court martial those responsible for Iraq and then stick them in front of a firing squad.
I take it you are an advocate of the traditional-wing British justice then Road Hog – a fair trail, an impartial judgement and then a quick execution at dawn
Who said anything about “quick”??
Put your hands together ladies and gentlemen and give a warm welcome to….Led Zeppelin? Oh no the Shadow Cabinet, bit naff.
Christ, Boner is on now, who next fucking Al Gore?
Unnecessary and preposterous. If Cameroon continues like McUckoo it can only mean the whisperers in the ears want the British to get used to the hoax and fraud of “climate change”, not to mention the underlying racism.
bring on the Red Hot Chilli Peppers!
Have I got time to bury my hamster?
At a recent U2 concert Bono was clicking his fingers and telling the audience that everytime he clicked a child died. Someone shouted out “Stop clicking then”.
How many impregnations have there been in the UK since 2pm? ffs
when are politicians going to realise that most of us think Bono an utter, utter tool
That’s sealed it for me, he’s got my vote*
*N Farrage.
Bono. Ffs. Mind you, he is a tax dodger so shouldn’t be surprised really.
Dodges tax: tells governments how to spend our money.
Jets around the world: lectures us on CO2 and global warming.
His music is pompous shite as well.
yeah – but apart from that?
BONO’S A CHUMP
I though it was a species of monkey.
Brown is in a U2 tribute band.
He’s “over The Edge”
Someone I was watched the speech said when Bono spoke “Thank God, he’s not clincking his fingers.”
That was hardly a secret, unless you’re called Grayling
Sounds like a gimmick to me.
Why is Bono there? A bit pointless and not very ‘sober government in waiting’ is it?
Connecting with the yoof vote – don’t kock it.
Yoof vote, really? More like the rapidly ageing mid-30s vote mate.
You think Bonobo connects with them?
With no taste in music.
Fucking Bono??? I won’t vote for any party that courts Internationalist upstarts like that. Fuck me, Dave! What are you doing to this once great party? No mainstream parties remaining on the right wing? I’ll vote fringe, then. Fuck you, Camerhoon.
‘cos that scruffy irish bloke couldn’t make it.
You mean that other irish chump Geldof.
Perhaps you should move to Twitter, Guido. Your last few posts are well within the limits of an SMS.
I wish they’d stop playing that loud techno music. It gives a subliminal message that the Tories are a bit deaf.
Pardon?
Ho Ho Ho. The old ones are the best ones.
here we go at long fucking last
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KAMMERRUN SPEEKSZ NAO
YE ENGLISH SUKKERS ARE IN FOUR A HARD TIME
GNU LAYBOAR IS BUST
SUMWUN HAS TU PAY
SUMWUN HAS TU FEEL THE PAIN
AND THAT IS YE
YE ENGLISH MUST PAY AND FEEL THE PAIN OF
THE DEFF OF A TRILLION KUTTS
SUMWUN HAS TU DU THE DURTY WURQK
AND BARKIS IS WILLING
PARLIAMENT WINS
KROMWELLS* SUCCESSION IN THE PALASS OF OUESTMINCESTIR ASSEMBLED
THAT IS PARTY POLITYQKAL DEMOKKERASSEA FOUR U SUKKERS
YE LOSE BOTH WAYS
YE ARE CEREAL LOSERS
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ASTA
Gordon, call an engineer, Damien has malfunctioned again.
Wait no turban in background….find someone quick!
There are 2 chocolate face my friend, is niiice.
good start
Don’t agree. He should have started on the ups that he thinks he can deliver. Then go over what’s wrong now. Then back to the ups of the future. You shouldn’t take the audience down first. There’s a bigger ‘mountain to climb’ then, in speech terms.
Actually,Dack,..no.
First rule of public speaking…get the mood attuned to the bad stuff first.
Then you can build up to the finale on a high.By then the audience should forgotten the lows,and remember the highs…if you’ve done your job well.
And it doesn’t get much worse than Bono, so now I see why he’s there.
First impressions count. Anyway, it’s a subjective argument. I thought the opening was crap.
Michelin Man has landed!
‘Bad’, ‘cutbacks’, ‘tough’, cuts’, ‘disillusioned’, ‘not easy’… all in the first minute or so. Sack the speechwriter Dave. Oh no! He did the climb-summit-view thing. Got the troops in early though.
good one about bob
Christ, but Andrew Lansley looks bored.
First responsibility troops and their families.
Ruthless relentless focus on fighting winning and coming home and a War Cabinet – Yes!!
Here comes Dannat…..
Does the CCO bog cleaner get a mention & a round of applause as well?
how is it that the cons sound like they are in goverment and labour are in oppo
I see they have turned the lights down as well. Is this to indicate the responsible Tory attitude to energy and not wasting money or is it to disguise the wrinkles in the audience.
Michael Gove IS a Thunderbird puppet. You can see the strings from the gallery.
a clap for the soldiers? how twattish
Really? You don’t think they’re worth recognition is that it?
Great Labour attitude. Let’s not acknowledge our troops or that they’re fighting and dying in a foreign land. That way the country won’t keep demanding that we treat them fairly.
gordon with his head in the sand and bob aintbustinagut running round like a headless chicken.
Didn’t Gordon ask for a clap for Trade Union leader Jack Jones at the TUC conference, is that more appropriate? He then gave 2 sentences to the troops. Doubt Jack Jones was ever in danger of being blown up by an IED.
Sadly too true. IEDs all round as far as I’m concerned.
Jack Jones was on the payroll of the KGB for years. He did his best to undermine democracy in this Country. Sounds familiar, some things never change.
Never mind a clap a standng applause would be appropriate.
Did he just call Pickles a ‘chump’?
No just “my chum and yours”. Bum chum no doubt.
Missed of the ‘p’. Typo. Sack the typist.
Off. Typo. See how easy it is?
Time to replace Hoon with CHUMP, semantics from Mandelson. wish I could Fly.
I’d definitely do Samantha Cameron
Do you mean SamCam?
Samantha Cameron is top totty! Marks out of ten? I’d give her one!!!!!!!
hmm.. scoring political points from the military.
after all the blood that our forces have spilt and david cameron is trying to score political points on top.
what a fucking c’unt.
Will someone kindly shoot the fucker before he gets into high office!
,…and Gordon makes “surprise” visits to Afghanistan because he really wants to meet the troops?
Really?
hmm.. scoring political points from the military.
after all the blood that our forces have spilt and gordon brown is trying to score political points on top.
what a fucking c’unt.
i know tat you’re a c*nt stop telling us !.
You’ve never had it so bad!
“I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky….etc”
Especially after Liam Fox is getting all hot and keen about cutting the MoD budget by 25%. That is simply not feasible. And you can talk all you like about restricting cuts to back office staff, but seriously, war today takes a massive logistical effort.
100,000 back-office staff could form a fucking human chain and pass all the gear down to fucking Afghanistan.
Fuck, the pub bore has arrived.
Time to absquatulate.
I believe what they’ve said is that they are going to cut the MoD civilian staff by 25%.
Personally speaking I think he should have blown the MoD up and started from scratch because labour has poisoned the relationship between the MoD and the Armed Forces and the MoD has become a white elephant incapable of delivering services to the troops in the field.
But they do have a lot of very nice artworks.
….and a really nice building.
Well said, nell. Shoot and stuff the elephant. Get a minibus load of combat veterans, plus a life subscription to Jane’s and International Defense Review, give ‘em half the present MOD budget, give the rest of the staff 6 months’ notice and you’re away.
its quite a good speech so far
You Sir, is going mental !!!!!
2.59 and its still a good speech, I reckon…
Huh? He’s just asked for the football world cup in 2018. (!)
My little super-imposed screen corner Digi-widget Win TV NOVA USB is coming into its own today. He’s giving a puff to IDS and his social justice team. IDS will be the ‘Mending the Broken Society’ supremo. Nice burst of anger and indignation over New Labour’s having made the poor poorer.
I thought he just said the most important thing in our nation today is ‘Bramleys’… Now I love a good baked apple myself… but… But no it is ‘FAMILIES’. Hooray! He is going to give more support to Health Visitors… and not do away with Sure Start but ‘improve it’.
‘We have got to stop treating adults like children and children like adults’… ‘Big government has failed’… Need to turn around Welfare…and break the cycle of Welfare Dependency…
Genuine praise for the BEST bits of the NHS…(recalling the loss of his own son… a child late at night… rushing to hospital and no fussing with credit cards before entering A and E)
NHS is not good enough, however, we need better information, more choice, doctors to be accountable to patients… Tories are party of NHS.
Fiona Pilkington and her disabled daughter, and their dreadful fate… taken as an example of what is wrong… performance indicators rather than the real acute needs of people suffering in fear… the results of crime and disorder..
Terrorism then and now… Brighton bomb ref to long lasting effects… Courage of Margaret Tebbit
To build a responsible society, we need to teach our children properly… NO MORE money like Ed Balls for Quangos and Whitehall. Give the money to the head teacher. We shall create more good schools. Radical change is what parents want. Competition… to get the best school.
We will defend the Union… not Scottish independence.
Britishness is not mechanical it is organic… We are open minded but we need limits on immigration. We are generous. Proud to ring fence international development money. Brits are skeptical of authority and we will sweep away ID cards (HOORAY)
Climate change… insationable consumption does not make you happier… new green technologies… Copenhagen summit…
Our Parliament has been made a laughing stock… We shall cut the cost of politics. We are going to build a new politics… People have been left powerless by big government. We need decentralisation, transparency and accountability…
The EU… (hmmm) … The left has fallen in love with it… It hasn’t signed its acoounts off for a decade (!0 … Free and fair trade, climate change etc… EU is fine…William Hague
The Good Society is the Responsible Society… Rebuilding our broken Economy and our broken Society and our Broken politics… We must do all three.
Unpredictable events will intervene… Your character and determination and learning from others mistakes… will see you through…
Excellent ending… ‘we will support you if you take responsibility and if you cannot we will look after you’…
It will be a steep climb. The view from the summit will be worth it… ‘I see a country where…
‘We will work together to make it happen…’ ‘You made it happen!’
The above sounds corny as I have reported it, but he did it very well… with poetic force even towards the end… It was almost as sober and serious as his Chancellor’s to start with… but it built up to an emotional, but not over-emotional climax… Lots of cheering and rapturous appluase at the end … The music he and Samatha are walking out to: ‘I’m a believer.’
He’s the next PM, for sure… (real time so apologies for poor spelling)
you made it happen.
sounds like a greeting card message, dunnit.
Are the BBC cameramen briefed to pick out the hounds?
Interesting trollfest currently taking place on the Grauniad report of the speech. Alastair Campbell’s fingers must be really rattling the keyboard.
He doesn’t use his fingers.
Mentions his son – cue a line about his passion and commitment to the NHS.
At least he uses the NHS. I believe Tony (allegedly) went private.
Is that OJ Simpson at the back?
lol
Whit? nae mention aboot Scotland?
You Jockanese will all be put into a time machine and transported back to 70s GDR. We’ll get shot of you and you wont notice the difference.
Scotland can bog off.
not bad
The email was from Nigeria.
Gordon Brown has only got himself to blame for this!
As I said on my blog: “It is no use Labour screaming at General Dannatt. If Gordon Brown, Bob Ainsworth and various Labour lickspittle gauleiters had not kept pissing in General Dannatt’s pockets, he might not have felt it necessary to change his coat! But that’s typical of Labour. Cause a problem, then blame the victims”
http://thatsnews.blogspot.com
Lord Snooty worked in a large corporation – he didn’t run a newsagents. What does he know about business?
If he’d left Bono at home, it might have started off better.
The speech has been quite good so far, but Bono’s appearance was quite unnecessary.
Bono s anyone’s as long as it gets him on the telly and a free luch.
Bono: town, rail, feathers, tar
fuckin hell
good one on ids
Looks like the token black dude and white Dudess have been carefully positioned to be seen on either side of Dave’s Haircut.
(He had three Shredded Wheat this morning)
good attack line though
Please can someone with some basic photoshop skills take a picture from the conference and change the “Ready for change” logo so that it says “Spare any change?”
That would brighten up my day.
“Ready for champagne” would be easy too.
last week our inglorious leader used his whole speech attacking the Tories
So far GB one mention
Who’s in charge?
Good tone so far , common sense
Would you want to talk about McDoom just after lunch?
Hmmm, not sure about all this anecdotal evidence…if you want to stop welfare reliance, stop paying them.
Is that a quote or a suggestion?
An obligation.
He can’t until he gets into No. 10.
I’ve had similar experiences. I’ve seen people in our local jobcentre who have no intention of ever getting off their lazy backsides and getting a job. I overheard one guy being offered a job 15 miles away – there is a good bus service – but he refused it with the excuse that it was too far away from his home.
I’m working temporarily at the moment for a firm 40 miles away from my house. I want these people to lose their benefits if they can’t be arsed to work.
That man behind Dave’s right shoulder, is he the one who keeps sending emails from Nigeria?
Ryan Giggs just the right of Dave as we look
You should have caught the early train Guido, Dave’s speech is boring and somewhat of a letdown.
Id do that Eric Pickles
I wouldnt
dull dull dull.
dull and dodgy dave.
bogof dave.
dull dull dull.
dull and dull tat.
bogof tat.
there are many things you could say about the great and heroic thick as thieves.
but to describe him as dull is not one of them.
you fucking crackhead dullard.
very exciting being paid to sit on a blog all day making comments
fuck knows why they are paying you any money I wouldn’t pay you in washers you boring c’unt.
Sorry, tat, you are dull as fuck.
said the dullard too dim to think of a name.
DOH!
goodness only knows why they are paying you any money I wouldn’t pay you in washers you boring bore
you still here love?
I am independent politically and financially.
that is why I can say the things I do.
I owe no c’unt nuffink.
good one innit.
Don’t forget to get some milk on the way home
“I owe no c’unt nuffink”?
Then how the feck did you get born then ? or have you got pirex on you’re ar*se?
He is still going to be your priminister by may
PM of a hung parliament.
he will have no workable majority because the tories have no popular support.
That bint behind Dave’s left shoulder is yawning away, she’ll be be in the land of nod soon if Dave doesn’t show more enthusiasm. The words probably ain’t too bad but Dave is dull and he does not seem as if he means them. And how the fuck can he expect every child in the UK to have the same oportunity as him, is he going to send them all to Eton and will them 30 million?
you are ed balls and i claim my 500k you and your android wife steal every year
Dave has deliberately snubbed David Davis saying that Grayling WILL be in his government.
weak leadership again from dave.
he is like brown in that when he makes a mistake he refuses to change it for fear of admitting the mistake.
Latest from Chris Grayling :
“Fred West was a marvellous builder, Hitler built some great motorways, Vlad the Impaler created jobs in forestry. Wait a sec…actually…errr…”
“…err… what I mean was Lord West was a marvelous …err… sailor, especially for the gubbermint, and I’m very pleased that we will have Lord Dannatt alongside him, as they will look …err… very colourful together side by side on the benches. All we need now is …err… someone from the RAF to complete the …errr… three-card trick. I am sure Dave has that well in hand.”
I’m returning to the fold
Thank God.
Keep it up call me Dave
he is only talking common sense
said the stepford housewives.
More than we have heard since 1997
And, the voice of reason is not in some celtic drawl. How pleasant to hear English as it is meant to be spoken.
Keep it up and I’ll be canvassing for you
“How pleasant to hear English as it is meant to be spoken.”?
English was not meant to be spoken with a plum in one’s mouth.
I like to try and speak with plums in my mouth.
Baaaaaa
Is he saying that we will soon be allowed to thwack a hoodie. Hard?
Thump a pikey will soon be legal
I fuckin’ hate pikeys.
I hate loud gobbed hoodies
FIGHT!
my money’s on the pikey.
The Pikeys better look out.
Come thieving my way and I will soon have the support of Plod when you criminally trespass. No need to feel obligated to offer the mandatory cup of tea in the hope they won’t press charges against the law abiding householder.
‘Thump a Hoodie. Yes.
I hope they pardon that 71 year old granny that used the lethal finger prodding to defend her home from yobs!
Then send the Police in question on retraining.
So we have now got a Tory Army have we- Cameron’s first major political blunder
A Tory Army could be very useful winkling out the last remaining socialists.
well its the first time I’ve heard it called that
Eu ???/
Bono reminds me of Arthur Askey
You will also tax us at 50% you tosser.
Hague – NOT GOOD ENOUGH. What if he’s hit by a bus? I want out, so if that happended, God forbid, that we still know where we’re headed and not interupted.
Will he talk about a referendum
CUE: Ian Dury
Lets have parts I and II though first.
There will be no entrepreneurs when you tax the shit out of us.
Quite!
Entrepreneurs do not make money for the early years. So tax does not matter, help does.
However, when they do, it normally comes in huge amounts all at once and they pay high taxes in those years.
Tax should always be on profit, not life.
(If you are paying too much tax then you are not investing enough back through research, and are just a plain businessman)
Business tax, conforming to regualtion and inspection = tax on business?
If you look at the stats, a lot of entrepreneurs (and established businesspeople) are leaving the UK to set up somewhere cheaper.
It’s too expensive in this country. We are already taxed to oblivion, Where has all the money gone?
No there won’t. Not just the taxation, there will be sod all start-up capital or working capital for at least 5 years. Instead, Big Business will have carte-blanche to gradually but inexorably muscle in on the market segments that these entrepreneurs would have supplied efficiently. Once so extended, it will become even harder to go into business against the corporatist-fascist behemoth.
Spot on.
Oh…is that it?
Bit of a limp finish. And no memorable money shot just before it.
Mount Cameron 14238 ft
Mount Tory 9289ft
Mount Cameroon 13,435 ft
Giz a kiss for da ms cameron
The Monkees??? Chimps.
chumps. OK not bad but do we believe them. Am I a believer?
Quiet on a referendum
Quelle surprise.
The Twat said Hague would be organising a referendum which is bollocks as the Poles will ratfy on Sunday and the Czechs before the year is out.
I didn’t actually hear him say that. About a referendum. I thought he was just about to but – ‘will have to listen to itm again.
I wouldn’t believe a word any of them say. And now the old ‘marriage vow… together’ blah blah blah. Some of us don’t want the marriage/kids thing. I’d love one of them to give us a mention.
I don’t like mouldy cheese. I’d love one of them to mention ripe cheese.
Georgina Savey looks diiiiiiirty. Mmmmmmm
Come on little fishies a bit closer to the trap, we are the fishies.
Verdict on dave speech
Journos say crap
Conservative party members say brilliant
Average joe says average
Is Joe the plumber here?
no, he’s out on a job
5 out of 10
4/10
Feel a bit flat.
Not as flat as a cigarette paper, nor as flat as
a pancake.
Maybe as flat as punctured space hopper.
Fuck a duck.
05 October 2009
In July, British soldiers and I boarded a CH-47 helicopter at Camp Bastion for the flight to FOB Jackson at Sangin where fighting is brutal. The helicopter was so stuffed with men, gear and supplies that the cargo was not even strapped down. We steadied the long stack with our hands and prayed that the pilots not begin flying violent evasive maneuvers. The tail gunner partially lifted the ramp to prevent bundles from tumbling into the skies, and that was it for securing the bundles. Just a week before, a giant MI-26 helicopter was shot down on final approach to this same landing zone. All aboard died in flames, as did two children on the ground.
This is, interestingly, the same landing zone where I would make the photos for “The Kopp-Etchells Effect” dispatch, which was published in many languages around the world. Many readers have weighed in with ideas about the causes of the glow. Some say the cause is St Elmo’s fire or the triboelectric effect, or perhaps the piezoelectric effect. The actual cause does not seem to be surely known, according to J. Gordon Leishman, D.Sc.(Eng.), Ph.D., F.R.Ae.S., Minta Martin Professor of Engineering, Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. I don’t know. Maybe it’s caused by angels. It definitely is beautiful.
We landed and British Soldiers from “2 Rifles” swarmed in to help unload cargo. Since I made this photo, at least two British CH-47s have been lost in combat operations, one of which was just north of here.
We need more gear and more forces now. We can outfight these enemies and we can win the war, but at this rate a favorable outcome is difficult to imagine. This war shows signs that it will become more intense than Iraq at its peak. As with my twelve dispatches from 2006 warning that we were losing this war, the warnings over the past couple of years seem to be falling on incredulous ears. We will lose the war unless we get more troops and more gear soon.
This weekend we lost eight more soldiers in a firefight. I learned about it while they were still fighting, but did not report it until just before the media broke the story the next day. Still unreported, to my knowledge, sources tell me that FOB Keating was destroyed and that troops were under siege for up to 24 hours before Air Force Para-rescue got them out. (Subject to confirmation.) The fighting will only intensify. We can beat these guys, but not under current conditions.
The last two missions I did with British 2 Rifles ended in firefights. Due to bandwidth difficulties, only a small part of the video was uploaded. Those two firefights were melded into one short video. These are just typical hum-drum day-in day-out missions, nothing like what happened this weekend in Nuristan.
from Michael Yon
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/two-firefights-one-video.htm
Also click on the links within that article after reading it. Thanks Nell or whoever posted it.
Dave, give us a fucking referendum, you bastard.
I’m going to wait to see what UKIP have to say.
Wasted vote – they can’t form a government and will let Labour or Lib dem in.
Well said. Fuck knows why Lord Snooty is trying to be so clever. He trusting / dealing with foreigners & that cannot be trusted & are too frivolous re such important issues.
Does Snooty seriously believe he will lose votes by guaranteeing us a referendum? Amazing he is so up front on vote losing issues such as wage freezes, 50% tax rate, ending middle class tax credits, but reticent re the referendum. Bloody weird.
He might be unelected, but at least he’s independent, and an expert in his portfolio, and a man of great distinction/experience.
Compare that to labour’s approach of just parachuting-in any unelected spiv they can get their hands on who’ll blindly tow the party line and lie through their teeth at every possible opportunity.
Very big difference.
Well done dave.
Bono and making Dannat a Peer to help the probably new government – so where’s the change from new stasi then????
I hate Bono and I want change so it looks like back to the future and life’s becoming a nightmare
Attended my first conference today – well, hung about as close as I could get without a badge. Hoped to harangue a few delegates about planning to move my retirement goalposts, just as I’m shaping up for a shot.
If people like me – 58 yr. old lorry driver are exercised and mobilised this policy will cost the Cons hundreds of thousands of votes. I will not be short changed in the home straight of a 49 year working life. Neither will many, many others.Do not believe the lie – ‘we are ALL living longer’ many are but some aren’t – especially after a lifetimes hard graft.
Listen out for ROUT66. (any advice welcomed)
http://www.grimacing@wordpress.com
Labour now seems to be looking like a wounded and arthritic Diplodocus stuck in mud.
Whilst Cameron looks like a fit butterfly
Bollox
He’ll need to hold his nose in the House of Lords. It’s full of evil retarded corrupt shit like Neil Kinnock, and perverted fascists, like the sick depraved Mandelson animal.
It should be called the ‘House of Evil Filth’.
Steady on, now – Baronness Scotland works there!
He was fairly good on Europe- interesting thoughts…
http://ddtaylor88.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/cameron-good-on-the-eu/
What a silly idea, having someone who actually knows about defence advising at the Ministry of Defence. I’ve proved that you need to know bugger all to to be able to do it properly, just look at my record … oh er .. p’raps dont bother ….
Can I just say how pleased and happy I am that Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize? Obama’s Middle East envoy, former Northern Ireland peacemaker George Mitchell, achieved more in two weeks than Tony Blair (George Bush’s so-called peace envoy) did in three years. Obama’s White House made the goal a “truly comprehensive peace settlement” and normal relations between Israel and its neighbours.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Blair thought that he was going to get the Prize, so up himself he is. I seem to remember that Blair thought that Obama would want him to continue in the role (in which, politely, he “had a low profile”).
The icing and sugar sprinkles on the news was the sound of incredulous and disgusted Radio 4 presenters having to announce it.
I am a berliner.