Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’
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The BBC’s man with the finger on the pulse of politics (or so we are told at any rate), Nick Robinson, is in Afghanistan travelling with Conservative Party Leader David Cameron (think Canada’s Stockwell-Day, only less insane and more posh) and our Nick was taken aback by the bullish nature of the British troops stationed in Helmand province:
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This article does not only make me angry, it engrages me.
This follows on from the expenses scandal that completely obliterated how Members of the British Parliament conduct their business. Whilst 17 year old men on barely £16,000 ($25,440) a year die due to poor equipment and lack of resources in Afghanistan, these MPs were out there lavishing their apartments and country houses. Country houses, gentlemen.
No sir, this is rotten, utterly rotten.
