WARPORN: Dillying and dallying
Here’s a breathless, erotic press release from the Ministry of Defence. I bet the guy who wrote this had a sock handy:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles scanned the horizon for enemy action. Jackal vehicles with their awesome firepower raced ahead using the latest surveillance and targeting systems. Infantry stood ready to strike with deadly sniper rifles, mortars and grenade machine guns – this wasn’t a major operation in Afghanistan but the UK’s largest demonstration of military equipment purchased urgently for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Oh my God, I think… I’m going to… ohhh… deploy.
Can I just ask one thing though. If all these throbbing, thrusting engines of hot death have been ‘purchased urgently for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan’ then WHY THE BLOODY HELL are they being flaunted on Salisbury Plain for drooling death fetishists? Shouldn’t they be on transports heading to where they’re needed?
(Those are rhetorical questions by the way. There’s no brownie points in just sending this stuff to the army, is there? Where’s the PR value in that? If New Labour hadn’t made such a cock-up of supplying troops up until now, there wouldn’t be any need for this dick-waving. ‘Look at us! Look at us! We’re finally getting it right! And it only took 14 years and four wars to do it!‘)
Posted on September 18th, 2008 at 5:09pm under Afghanistan, Iraq, New Labour
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What ? Our troops get £15,000 a year and all the second hand Land Rovers they need. What more do they want – bomb-proof vehicles ? Helicopters ? Body armour ? Radios that work ?
No, we need to sell the snazzy kit to OTHER people, to raise enough revenue to fund vital NHS needs like this :
“Under the scheme the nurses, wearing high-visibility waistcoats, set up portable tables and chairs in town centres to monitor passers-by. If they spot someone who looks overweight they will approach them and strike up a conversation about their health, inviting them to have a “rapid nursing assessment”, which includes having their waist measured and their blood pressure checked.
Jackie Reid, one of the Street Nurse team, said members of the public were usually happy to discuss their weight if it meant getting some good diet and exercise advice.
Reid, a public health nurse, said: “We tend to pick places where people congregate, such as supermarkets. We just walk up and speak to people. We will be looking at the men with the paunches or women carrying external body fat who are an ‘apple shape’, as we know they are at higher risk of disease and cancer. If you are carrying core body fat around your middle, that’s raising your cholesterol.”
Overweight women can be referred to local Weight Watchers meetings, and men are sent to the NHS Ayrshire and Arran men-only weight loss club ‘Slimmin Withoot Wimmin’.”
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