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Ridgley

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Ridgley: it's good to see you posting again - get well soon.


This thread made me laugh too, especially the double irony when intellectual toffery challenged the value and insight of your original post but then couldn't handle the resulting discussion without resorting to personal insults and excommunication to the Lounge! :)

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Oh dear, emboldened by (lucky) success in Libya, he's now barking on about sorting Somalia out. Good luck with that one.


First Blair (did good in Sierra Leone (or gunboat diplomacy as it's usally known), got lucky in Kosovo with a very ill thought out intervention there) got all hand of history, golden touch on us, now this.


Cameron's apparently barking on about 'direct threat to British interests'. It's all a wearisomely familiar path isn't it.

Why do we have to have these well-meaning idiots banging on about their 'committed', if 'vaguely practising' christian principles at the helm. They're dangerous I tell you.

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