I seem to recall reading that the codes are actually vinyl ones, and therefore can be changed easily should the collection want to represent a different squadron that she served with.

But I agree with Sadsack, it’s nice to represent one of the other squadrons she flew under.

And that is also the reason the collection has gone back to having clipped wings, as that how she was configured whilst with 312 Sqn.

I hope that one day the collection has the financing available to fit siamese exhausts, (and maybe even the correct cannon extension shrouds as well), which would have her looking at her most authentic for that period of her life.

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Paul

Meanwhile, champion of the EU for both the working class and the young, Femi Oluwole, shoots himself in both feet in an entertaining interview with Mike Graham on Talk Radio: –

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Paul

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45873842

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Paul

Rather have laws and legislation through an elected European body, of which the UK is a full member and over which a veto is also available than the recent introduction of Henry VIII powers and a departure from constitutional principle, giving Ministers the ability to amend and repeal legislation and taking that power and responsibility away from parliament.

Er, AK, that is exactly what happened when Ted Heath signed the Treaty of Rome, i.e. power and responsibility was taken away from our parliament, and more importantly, the electorate.

And as for the so called Henry VIII powers, you seem to forget (or are unaware) that is exactly how Heath and his government managed to sign us up to the European project!

And yet after the 2016 referendum and still to this day, the remoaners, including those fanatical EU loving MPs (as your post proves), now find objection at a mere hint of such use of these powers when it came to repealing the 1972 European Communities Act (the very act that made EU law supreme to ours), and also find the gall to cite the ‘importance’ of UK parliamentary democracy, in deciding what EU laws and legislation should be kept once the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018 was passed.

(I don’t think there was much in the way of scrutiny from parliament when new EU laws were introduced over the last 45 years).

As St John so succinctly and quite accurately put it in his last post; –

Constitution or not, handing over powers to foreign entities should require a referendum.

Whilst the people of the UK never got the promised referendum at the time, the vote to ‘leave’ in 2016 could, or more accurately, should be considered a vote not to join a non democratic political union, albeit some 40 plus years late!

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Paul

Fantastic stuff!

Looks in remarkable condition.

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Paul

DH Fan,

I think I’ve mentioned it a few times in this thread, but what you say about the UK electorate never voting to join (what was then the EEC), is absolutely true (as is the rest of your post).

Yet still to this day, there are those who won’t believe it!

So you have to chuckle at the hardcore remoaners who continually claim that the leave campaign was full of ‘lies and deceit’, yet they seem to forget that the whole campaign to join was well, just that!

Ted Heath was the chief behind this, and as far back as 1960, he wrote a letter to the then The Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir asking him about the constitutional implications of Britain signing the Treaty of Rome, and the key point that could potentially stop this from happening – our loss of sovereignty.

(My apologies for preaching to the converted, but I think it’s important to mention it).

Lord Kilmuir’s reply can be found with a quick Google search, (although it appears the original copy of this letter was removed from the UK Parliament website), and makes for some interesting reading.

(It’s also worth taking a look at the file from Kew, FCO+30+1048, again a quick Google will bring it up).

What the Kilmuir letter and the Kew documents prove is that there would indeed be a loss of sovereignty, something that those who campaigned against our signing of the Rome treaty knew all to well, as did Heath who realised he had to play this down, lying to the UK electorate, and of course, never holding the referendum that he originally promised them!

So I’ll leave you with this classic line from him, published in the Government’s June 1971 White Paper: –

“there is no question of Britain losing essential sovereignty”

After 45 years of membership, I think it’s fair to say (as was known and predicted), this has been proven to not to be the case.

Yet we still have the pro EU crowd telling us the UK is ‘still sovereign’ when this is factually incorrect, or putting it bluntly, a ******* great lie!

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Paul

I already have the Comedy Channel, thanks, so will continue to not bother wasting my time watching one of your lazy and pointless video postings…..

Agent K, the same could be said of your regular ‘project fear’ and ‘lets bash Britain’ postings, with a link to an EU biased news source/sources, reporting how company x has ‘threatened job losses’, along with the supposed long term ‘damage’ and ‘harm’ it will cause to our economy.

Whilst Trump may have is faults, he sometimes hits people were it hurts with the truth or an ‘out of the box’ observation or opinion, that goes against the grain of other world leaders, both past and present.

And interesting that you chose to generalise again, referring to the “fascist redneck component of his audience”.

Funny how those on this side of the pond don’t like the fact that he was elected democratically (that is, by the people of the United States) happen to be great lovers and believers in the non democratic EU!

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Paul