PLEASE STAY AWAY....

The complete lack of dignity demonstrated by some of the 15 British kidnapped sailors, such as soaraway "Sun stunna" Faye Turney in the past week has brought shame on the Senior Service. Listening to outraged comments from the MANY brave men and women in our Armed Forces, I was struck by the chasm that exists between their selfless and patriotic views and those held by the metropolitan elite such as Minister of Defence Des Browne. And now comes the news that the families of four British soldiers killed in Iraq have requested that the Defence Secretary stays away from a ceremony on the return of the bodies to Britain.

What REALLY sickens me is that Prime Minister Blair has INSISTED that everyone involved in the decision had acted "completely in good faith and honourably" - but with hindsight they had got it wrong.  During a visit to Wales, the Minister of Defence : "Look, I didn't actually know about the decision until after it was taken. With hindsight was it a good idea? No. Do I believe it will happen again? No."

Does that sound to you like a Government which feels a sense of shame, even a certain humility,  as to the foolish decisions it has made? Or does it sound like the irritated mewling of a corrupt administration which despises the very values the men and women in uniform represent?

Comments

[Charles in Texas]

Sobering pictures indeed, and stand in stark contrast to last week's spectacle.

[Bernard]

David:

I don't know how you feel, but having to call these dreadful government gonk politicians by their 'nick' name, ie. Des, and Tony, only serves to make one feel the more sicker by conferring a sort of familiarity with them.
How about, Desmund Browne, better known by media hacks as 'Des'(?)

[The Cynical Libertarian]

"The Traitor Browne" has a nice ring to it.

My condolences and thanks to the families of the fallen.

[Paul Weston]

I do not understand understand how a Defence Minister can be held in such contempt by the armed forces, and still stay in his job.

He should resign immediately, and go back to the vocation he trained for and is only fit for. A Human Rights lawyer.

[iluvni]

Browne should have carried the can for the abduction of the 15 'hostages' in the first place, That was the modst disgraceful part of this entire shameful episode.

[Ernest Young]

The PM's petition on the censureship of the MoD, and Des Browne, seems to have disappeared from the petition website.

Now is that a coincidence - or what?