Re: Red Arrows petitiongazzafield wrote:
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> "NM" <nik.morgan@mac . com > wrote in message
> news:1174134928.975882.199230@e1g2000hsg.googlegroups . com ...
>> On 17 Mar, 08:51, Joe Curry <EDIage...@HAGGISedinburghairport.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>> The RED ARROWS aerobatic squadron of the Royal Air Force brings huge
>>> pride and international prestige to the UK, but the Treasury
>>> bean-counters in our beloved Government want to axe the Reds to save a
>>> couple of shillings. The personnel, pilots and aircraft of the
>>> squadron are all capable of deployment elsewhere in the RAF, so the
>>> money really saved would be peanuts.
>>>
>>> Cynics might observe that the move is a covert campaign to expunge
>>> from the public mind a potent and highly visible symbol of the very
>>> best of the Royal Air Force as an independent Air Arm of a United
>>> Kingdom giving up its identity to Europe...
>>>
>>> 10 Downing St website has an online
>>> petition * petitions.pm.gov.uk/SaveTheReds/. Please sign it.
>>> Don't let
>>> them get away with this.
>>>
>>> Please could you pass this on to those you know who also care.
>>> --
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>> It will probably end up being privatised, The Marlboro Red Arrows Team
>> or Red Bull Arrows or whatever.
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> It's a fucking disgrace they'd even consider it. Are there NO
> traditions in this country they won't sacrifice to save a few washers?
> There's one we could definitely do without....................
But synchronised masturbation is an essential part of the political
set-up...
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