"Thanks Yanks for all those guns and tanks" must be just about the worst song that came out of the second World War. Nevertheless we were pathetically grateful at the time for we needed every bullet we could get. Sixty years later the situation is just as bad.
The Labour party has always hated spending money on defence and so it was a surprise that when "New" Labour came along its leader was keen on fighting wars. ,And after a succession of skirmishes we found ourselves fighting in the Middle East with too few troops and antique equipment. No wonder the Americans, backed up by a huge supply of guns, tanks and Hershey Bars, are not impressed. But who would have expected us to need to spend so much money when Tony Blair and his friends came to power? Labour had always been docile in the face of agression. How we were to know that we now had a leader set on poncing around on the world stage and keeping in with America where he was to earn his living after he had done his time as Prime Minister?
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