what .....the effffff!

scousethife

Heard a story about chinook helicopters and a shortfall blah blah etc etc

And they quoted the labour party as saying it was the tories fault

11 kin years ago!!!!!!!!!!!

I am certain, there is NO problem, at all, ever, that I couldnt sort out in 11 weeks never mind eleven years.

We have a government admiting it takes them more than 11 f kin years to sort out buying a hellicopter!!!!!

Why why why did you vote these idiots in again?

scousethife

In fact I reckon I could build ahey out of sticky backplatic and tin foil in less than 11 years]

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Would you like it with or without a rotor?

beingjdc

I suppose it was civil servants working for Tory Ministers who, in 1997, decided it was a good idea to save money by ordering helicopters that couldn't fly at night. I'm not sure how directly involved in procurement the Minister would be though, and it shouldn't have taken 7-8 years after they arrived in 2001 to realise there was a problem and get them upgraded (which they had to do by writing new software from scratch because Boeing wouldn't hand over their version).

piggeh

Who did they get the specs off to send out for tendering though? I'd imagine someone in the armed forces?

chopperharris

ERE guv , interested in a couple of choppas , ive some round the back going cheap?Fly at night optional.

Cannon_Fodder

ignore the troll

Cannon_Fodder

unless you knew you were trolling why would you assume my comment was aimed at you?

if the cap fits...

MyLastFiver

here are my thoughts...

No they're not.

EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life. But after the division of labour has once thoroughly taken place, it is but a very small part of these with which a man's own labour can supply him. The far greater part of them he must derive from the labour of other people, and he must be rich or poor according to the quantity of that labour which he can command, or which he can afford to purchase.

Plagiarized from Civil Society by John Ehrenberg.

THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality. If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments. This at least would be the case in a society where things were left to follow their natural course, where there was perfect liberty, and where every man was perfectly free both to choose what occupation he thought proper, and to change it as often as he thought proper. Every man's interest would prompt him to seek the advantageous, and to shun the disadvantageous employment.

Plagiarized from The Wealth of Nations.

Post something original, or acknowledge your sources.

wigglebeena

lol. don't think I've ever been enough of a Mr Bean to 'REPORT' anyone and lord knows I've met some t****** on MSE.

He's making notes in green ink in a little book now. Flat cap on.

Livingthedream

chopperharris wrote: »

ERE guv , interested in a couple of choppas , ive some round the back going cheap?Fly at night optional.

Trust him more than Brown