hutton_d

We get back to our political masters doing things for their own political gain rather than for the British electorate. Take a read of [url=http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/02/taking-us-for-mugs.html[/url]

"... What Booker points out in his column though, as indeed did we earlier, is that one of the largest Army contracts in recent time, for a new fleet of 8,000 Army trucks, was not decided on any of these criteria but in support of Mr Blair's policy of supporting European military integration. Even Gerald Howarth, at the time noted that the MoD was "Buying them for political rather than commercial reasons". That is wrong, wrong, wrong. Army equipment should not be used as a political tool.

With a deep recession now in progress, the way this contract was awarded is particularly poignant, given the travails of one of the earlier bidders, LDV. The firm is now facing closure when it could have been sharing in a programme originally costed at £1.6 billion and which will end up at around £2 billion by the time all the add-ons have been taken into account ..."

The article also points out, what we already see anyway, that nations such as the French look after their own first. Oh that we could elect politicians such as those! God knows which party they come form though.

Dave