Sounds like you were dumped by your ex doesn’t it ppp? You clearly have anti-Scottish views which are at best ill-advised, at worst bordering on offensive. I would suggest that your views on Scottish airfields are biased to such an extent as be worthless.

I think Joanna Lumley is wrong and it sounds to me as if she is living the past… the distant past. Banning laptops in schools, building camps, working on farms – it is 2011 not 1951 you know.

I reckon that children are pretty much the same as they have always been; some bad but most, the ones you usually don’t hear about, are good, decent kids. There is a tendency to always say that things were better in the old days (they weren’t) – and really that’s all this is about isn’t it.

Still, as long as it gets the headlines eh?

I’m not sure which is the more pathetic; the fact that he acquired a snow blower and covered the car in snow or the fact that he uploaded a video of his rather sad deed to the internet. Maybe he could have done something more useful and helpful with his snow blower.

I hereby invoke Godwins’ Law. 🙂

Crime rates are up are they?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12238962

The US example would suggest that the death penalty is not much of a deterrent.

Maybe so, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be called to account over his comments. Maybe he should go to Woodford in person and explain to the workforce what he meant.

It isn’t politicians who have ‘lined their pockets’ but the shareholders of BAE. The sooner that the Coalition and the MoD realise that they will never get value for money from BAE the better; it cannot be trusted and should be wound up.

I’m a BAE shareholder and I haven’t had my pockets lined. The BAe share price has decreased from £5.20 to £3.50 in the last 3 years. Maybe you would like to explain how pockets are lined by this price drop?

Maybe you would also like to explain how you would wind up a private company?

The MOD need to look closer to home to make procurement better. BAE weren’t involved in the Chinook fiasco – are you going to ask Boeing to be wound up as a result?
There are too many vested interests for there to be any action. Find out how many RAF officers ended up in senior positions in BAE to indicate where the vested interests lie.

I believe the early MR2 retirement was out of necessity. The airframes were well past their use-by dates. The decision was made with the knowledge that the MRA4 would be along within the year.

I may have “fallen for the spin” but there is no doubt in my mind that the current government cancelled the MRA4 project – it was their decision and their decision only. The RAF may have offered it but only if something else was saved in return. Why the defence chiefs made their statement when it was too late? Who knows what agendas are at work.

My MRA4 summary is follows – it was a crap project to work on, poorly run and immensely frustrating. It should have been cancelled in 2003 but wasn’t. To cancel it now when it is on the eve of completion after most of the problems have been solved is nothing short of criminal. I only hope that we as a nation don’t live to regret this decision.