HM Government became the Arthur Dayley of the second hand weapons trade yesterday, when one of five old submarines bought by Canada broke down a hundred miles west of Ireland. So bad was the problem, that the vessel is drifting helpless in rough seas, but this is not the only dodgy sub the Queen has sold her old dominion. Out of the five bought by the Canadians, three have already been sent back.
Maybe the Ministry of Defence, should buy the Queen an old sheepskin car coat, so she can hawk her old tat in the time honoured way of shady second hand car salesmen.
‘Wotcha guv! Nice little motor that. Only ten trillion sea miles on her and fifty thousand horse power under the conning tower! Just run in.... Fancy a warranty? No problem.’
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fancy falling upon your blog...this after just wondering if any of my old navy friends was aboard.Incidently, we bought those subs for $750 million cdn. We have since put in an additional $900 million into upgrades - including making them structurally sound! And that's only on the first ones we received!
Hi Robin,
I'd be asking for the money back if I was your PM.
...well, he might not get the chance to. How different our two medias are handling this. Much of what I've read coming from your part of the world is critical of the Brits for being rather shady in the deal and selling substandard equipment. Meanwhile, what little is in our news is more about why we bought any subs in the first place. There was a brief hour yesterday where the media was questioning our Min. of Def. and C.D.S. about not releasing information that the injuries sustained were more than minor, but that was quickly forgotten in light of the first argument in the opening of parliament...seems our ultra conservative party is more interested in preventing same-sex marraige than doing anything useful.
(oooops, I mentioned a bad thing and you already know where that got me, eh? What a little whacked out boob, alright. Did you perchance see the post to which she was responding? Talk about taking things out of context. No wonder. This is why homeschooling scares the hell out of me!But thanks for the kind word. I was a stoker when I was in the navy - not uncommon for a woman either. In fact, the submarines have been open to female sailors for sometime now. Tho its been about 7yrs and I've lost touch with many of my fellow guppies and shads, it will always be a part of me.
LOL - A 'stoker'? I imagine you shoveling coal in a steamy boiler room like in those WW2 films.
Re the fundy imbecile - no, I tried to find the post that sparked the homosexuality reference (Adam and Steve - Baaarf), but I was so revolted by her sickening twatishness, that I had to stop. It's enough to drive anybody to Satanism... Home Schooling? Mind control you mean, but what a cocky little bitch she was.
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