This morning I watched Bob Ainsworth on the Andrew Marr show and was struck by his relative honesty. Unfortunately his frankness shows some of the failings of Labour's treatment of the armed forces.
Firstly, he said that he'd personally been going around the MoD to make sure that everyone was committed to the Afghan war effort and to the forces. He said that was more that needed to be done. So there are members of the MoD not committed to our forces? Really that's quite shocking!
He then said two things which exposed the problem of lack of helicopters. He said that the Merlin helicopters had been in Iraq and we could not have two supply chains running at the same time - if that is true, how could we support two wars? Then he said that we needed the Merlins in Afghanistan otherwise there would be needless deaths. The extrapolation being that they are not there now and have been in Iraq, so there have been needless deaths.
There goes another Nokia.
Squiffy.
Sunday 16 August 2009
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