THE LAST DITCH
For 200 years, if in doubt as to how to behave, all a member of the Royal Navy had to do was ask himself this question;
What would Nelson have done?
I think we can safely say that most of the people in this picture are not asking themselves that question.
But perhaps this one is.
Succinct.
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Indeed. There are a couple of people hiding at the back too. Gray suit at our far left & guy just to right of centre looking hard to his right.
S-E
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There were two or three of the men …. marines I think …. who looked very unhappy at the “press conference.” They were frowning and turning their heads away.
I doubt they`ll be selling their story to the News Of The World.
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Now that those seamen and marines are safe, it is time to make some changes. Fire some admirals and the minister who made those moronic nonsmoking comments, institute and publicize “fire at will whenever seen fit” rules of engagement, wipe those damn smiles off the faces of the former abductees, and get them back into uniform ASAP. What military organization would allow a sailor to return to her country wearing a babushka? How utterly exasperating.
The Navy needs to show that they are not afraid to spoil the paint job on their cannon.
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Sadly, due to the education system as it now is, most of them probably don’t know who Nelson was. I think all that has happened since their release is more telling about the state of all media now than it is about their characters, though.
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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