As if things weren’t already bad enough for Gordon, now the Navy has turned its guns on him.Speaking in a Lords debate today, Admiral Lord Boyce, former chief of the defence staff, said that the PM had treated the armed services with "contempt" and "disinterest". He was particularly critical of the decision to appoint Des Browne to the dual role of Defence and Scottish Secretary.
Lord Boyce said:
“It is seen as an insult by our sailors, our soldiers and our airmen on the front line.
"And I know because I have reason to speak to them a lot. And it is certainly a demonstration of the disinterest and some might say contempt that the Prime Minister and his government have for our armed forces.
"And it shows an appalling lack of judgment at a time when our people are being killed and they are being maimed."
He might also have added for good measure that it is a bit of an insult to the people of Scotland that their representation at Westminster is seen as something that Des Browne can take care of in a spare half hour after lunch. So much for Gordon’s much-vaunted championship of the Union.
1 comments:
I have just watched the first ten minuets of BBC news, I have not seen such bad headlines for a Government for many years.
It will have given the families of the servicemen and women no comfort to have hard such hard words of truth from such high ranking men , who unlike this government actually know what they are talking about due to hard earned personal experience.
It would I am sure have given them no joy in having to give us such unpalatable truths.
As for the rest of the headlines, I am sure Blair and his cronies can not smile wide enough with those gnashers of theirs.
It will be ours for the taking come the election.
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