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Category Archives: Defence

Iraq. Why, for some, sorry is the hardest word.

02/10/2010
11 Comments
By Eric Joyce

Following Ed Miliband’s speech in Manchester this week, Labour’s official position is that the UK’s participation in the US-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake.  Some people are finding this…..

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Tagged Ed Milliband MP, Iraq war, Labour Defence policy

Trident, Afghanistan, Labour’s Defence Review

24/06/2010
16 Comments
By Eric Joyce

I’ve said in previous posts, and in the House of Commons, that we in Labour need to rethink our position on key aspects of Foreign and Defence Policy.  Trident and…..

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Tagged Defence Review, Labour

Er, so the Lib Dems just voted for Trident.

08/06/2010
8 Comments
By Eric Joyce

That’s it, really.

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Tagged Lib Dems, Trident

Lib Dems fear Trident Scorching

08/06/2010
5 Comments
By Eric Joyce

Tonight, here at the House of Commons, there’ll be a vote urging the government to include Trident within the terms of its Strategic Defence Review (SDR).  The Tory position is that…..

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Tagged Liberal Democrats, Trident

Uh oh. Here comes Joanna Lumley (again).

28/03/2010
5 Comments
By Eric Joyce

Take a look at this clip.  It’s the thoroughly decent Phil Woolas MP, Home Office minister, having his head kicked in by Joanna Lumley.  Albeit a lot of men would…..

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Tagged gurkas, joanna lumley

FEW THOUGHTS FROM BASRA, ON IRAQ AND BROWN

07/03/2010
8 Comments
By Eric Joyce

Sitting in Basra after a day of watching elections.  Some violence in Baghdad, but not here.  Pretty much just people enthusiastic to vote and decent local administrators running decent polling…..

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Tagged basra, elections, iraq

A Bit More about Chinook Crash

05/01/2010
1 Comment
By Eric Joyce

Having read today’s papers on the Chinook crash (e.g. Michael Settle’s piece in the Herald), I thought I’d post a short follow on comment from my blogpost of yesterday (see…..

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Posted in Defence
Tagged army, chinook, MoD

Mull of Kintyre Chinook Crash and the MoD

04/01/2010
1 Comment
By Eric Joyce

I served as an Army staff officer in Northern Ireland in the early 90’s and left shortly before the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash at the Mull of Kintyre , in…..

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Posted in Defence
Tagged army, chinook, MoD

Trident ‘FAIL’

05/12/2009
4 Comments
By Eric Joyce

The Indy reported yesterday  that Compass has organised a letter against the renewal of Trident.  Signatories included a pretty eclectic mix of the great and good (Thom Yorke, Damian Albarn…..

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Tagged Trident

Labour in the Sun

12/11/2009
2 Comments
By Eric Joyce

The Sun’s treatment of Gordon Brown over his letter to Jacqui Janes and his subsequent ‘phone call, sought to tread a fine line between attacking the PM for alleged neglect of our…..

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Tagged army, Defence, Government

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