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Reference the Falklands. What is often not known or conveniently forgotten is how poorly planned and executed the whole operation was.

 

The only reason the Parachute Regiment didn't run out of ammunition at Goose Green is because the Argentinians used the same weapon (The SLR was a licence built version of the Belgian FN FAL) and the Paras simply used Argentine ammunition.

 

There is also evidence to suggest had the Argentinian air force used their aircraft in a more effective manner, instead of sending them in twos and threes against the task force, a great deal more British ships would have been sunk.

 

I still can't believe that all those troops sat on Galahad as sitting ducks in an open cove whilst the ammunition was unloaded first! It just shows you what a shambles the whole operation was!

 

The Black Buck missions were another farce - sending Vulcan bombers in the freefall conventional bombing role with "dumb" 1000lb bombs to crater a runway? All the Argies did was create fake craters on the runways and dispersals!

 

IMHO the only reason we won was because of the bravery and professionalism of our guys and gals on the ground and the fact that the Argentinians planned and executed poor strategies.

 

Back on topic, I hate Blair. Yes I am biased, but seeing how he has dragged our Armed Forces over the coals in the last few years makes me physically sick. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.

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No one has mentioned the illegals yet? how many etc, i suppose pm brown, when he accede's to power will offer an amnesty to help the figures along.

 

Off topic, i watched a documentry a long time ago with the argie pilots, they only had one or two of the french built exocet missiles. So even they were short of ammo, thank goodness.

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Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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what! another one :D

france was very quick to sell them more i believe and undercover operations had to stop our "friends" from delivering

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

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Don't forget the Argies were using a wide variety of equipment from foreign sources, even Canberra bombers which we sold them in the 1970s!!!

 

Its unbelievable to think the Senior brass used the "Janes" series of books to find out exactly what the Argentinian military had equipment wise as the task force steamed south - I sh*t you not.

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what! another one :D

france was very quick to sell them more i believe and undercover operations had to stop our "friends" from delivering

 

I know, telly and fishing take up all of my spare time. :) and an. lovely.

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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our enemies could nowadays look our lot up with nothing bigger than a postage stamp sized book :D

could we do another falklands ????

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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our enemies could nowadays look our lot up with nothing bigger than a postage stamp sized book :D

could we do another falklands ????

 

Absolutely not.

 

We don't have the material, manpower, leadership or political will. We still have the best soldiers, sailors and airmen in the world, but thats where it ends.

 

The demise of the sea Harrier has left our fleet with no point air interceptor. The Harrier GR9 is not 100% combat effective (despite what you read), the Eurofighter is at least another 5 years away from being anything other than an airshow centerpiece.

 

Sorry, very off topic :)

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Absolutely not.

 

We don't have the material, manpower, leadership or political will. We still have the best soldiers, sailors and airmen in the world, but thats where it ends.

 

The demise of the sea Harrier has left our fleet with no point air interceptor. The Harrier GR9 is not 100% combat effective (despite what you read), the Eurofighter is at least another 5 years away from being anything other than an airshow centerpiece.

 

Sorry, very off topic :)

You carry on it's good to read it from another perspective. :thumbs: What about our new sub though?

 

ahh. Political will, bring back maggie. :whistling:

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Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Then you are going to have to slag off the news papers posted yesterday as an untrue article. Quote sub headline the star, 2nd page, 'almost a quarter of a million eastern europeons are now pouring into britain every month'.
Where to start? Don't you do a quick reality check when you read cr@p like this, a wee bit of mental maths? The Star? I would have been more credulous if it had been the Dandy or the Beano.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
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ahh. Political will, bring back maggie. :whistling:
Another reason why we could not do another Falklands is that we no longer have a Merchant Navy, another one of Maggie's legacies.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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