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Sunday 9 October 2011

Shoot the Fox (metaphorically speaking)

It was arch right wing Tory Liam Fox MP who announced to his US masters back in September 2010 that this country would be committing £20 billion to replace the Trident nuclear missile system at their behest – just as the Con Dem government was gearing up to implement £81 billion cuts in public expenditure by 2015 (with the loss of 490,000 public sector jobs). His current trials and tribulations couldn’t be happening to a better man.....
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23881669-britain-will-keep-trident-liam-fox-promises-us.do