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Quoting: Colin Hall


I’d have left you there and said " Fixed! Next problem please".

I’ve been reading about the so-called British evacuation, and indeed, it looks as though they couldn’t run a bath.

There are sound reason why the RAF can’t do much, and that reason is that the RAF Air Transport Arm is well and truly past it’s use by date. That fact was known for the full 13 years of the Labour Government, as TC correctly alludes to, during which the problem wasn’t addressed.

If you go and read the ARRSE page [Army Rumour Service], and PPRUNE, you will learn what is common knowledge, that the once renowned RAF Transport Command is  struggling to maintain the air bridge to Afghanistan, let alone any unforeseen commitment. The  obsolescent Tristars were old and secondhand when they were acquired, and almost no other operator flies them today, they’re that old. The VC10 is almost 50 years old, and the RAF ones over 47. The two 10s scrapped recently each had  80,000 airframe hours on them, which is a very old bike ! Spare parts must be an absolute nightmare for aircraft no one else uses!

The C130s, some of which are being scrapped as we speak, are overworked and very tired. The replacement for the Herc is the A400M which is years overdue and 800 million over budget, and before that red flag drops, both happened under Brown!

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Quoting: Pamela Forbes



 ’A laughing stock world wide’ ? Can we presume that is Sefton Park to Lime Street?

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Quoting: Arthur KINGO FARRINGTON

well said terry.
we dont all wear blinkers and your points are well put.
arthur.  

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Quoting: John (scouse) Hirons



Alright Arthur, I don’t think it’s me wearing the blinkers, read my post again;

  "Oh come on now you must remember life on the dole...sorry life under Thatcher, you know her she’s the one that said "the NHS is safe in our hands" just before she raised the price of perscriptions from 2/-d per script to over a pound per item in a year, you must remember that it was about the time she closed 1 in 5 hospitals manufactured a war & cut the armed forces.

 She was followed by Major who also managed to keep most of the population unemployed & cutting the armed forces yet again whilst at the same time selling us out to Europe."

are you trying to say that these are not true? These like it or not are true, check them out, then say sorry & get your facts straight before you accuse people of being blinked. Just because you don’t like something or something doesn’t fit into your philosophy doesn’t make them wrong they won’t disappear. You being an exiled Scouser with family still living here must remember the carnage Thatcher visited on Liverpool in the 80’s.

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