The Army

For generations untold, the defender of our realm and our way of life. The Royal Navy declined in power and influence, yet remained our Senior service while the British Armed Forces grew from strength to strength. The split in the Civil War, where Cromwell - the traitor - committed regicide and slew a Sovereign, to the destruction of the tyrant Bonaparte's land forces during the Napoleonic wars under the Iron Duke to the massive casualties taken in the Crimean War. The Army has given our people cause to sleep safely at night during those darker days. Then the prospect of peace, which had so hopefully been built upon, was so dashed by the Germans with Bismark and Wilhelm II requiring the British again to thrash those nun-raping Huns up and down the continent during the Great War and finally during the Second World War. Such massive sacrifices which have not been seen since by our generation, serve only to illustrate the point that our Armed Forces are, in modern times, the true defenders of our country and stalwart guardians of our way of life. Indeed our modus vivendi could never have survived without the sacrifices and commitment that our servicemen have so often proffered to us without asking, a situation that so many of us would like to be seen in many different walks of life - asking not what can be done for us but instead what we might do for our country.

Indeed the Army is not one whole unit, indeed it is an organisation composed of various different elements. Some Cavalry (generally based on the principles of fighting in armoured vehicles), most Infantry (the chaps with the muscle and firepower to take and hold ground from the enemy) they are supported by every other element of the modern Army to help them with their goal of winning the fire fight. This could include Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Army Air Corps or the services of the Signals Corps and Intelligence Corps. However, there is a more important distinction between the Army, that of Regular Army and the TA (Territorial Army). Nowadays, as opposed to bygone times, both forces fight side-by-side to defeat their mutual enemy, which is a matter for pride in all fields of the Armed Forces.

However, the British people are faced with a change. A political change, which threatens the century of improvement which the TA has gone through since Haldane introduced the idea of a TA into legislation in 1907 and instigated them as a part of the Army in 1908. This political change has been brought about due to a chronic mismanagement of our country's finances. A government which has so poorly handled our money that they have had to hack away at those people who go out with the service of their country in mind in the morning. We must take a step back and smell the coffee.

We have sat idly by whilst the Labour government borrow through boom and then borrow in bust, we have sat idly by whilst they sell our Gold Bullion reserves for a quarter of what they would have been worth now and we have sat idly by whilst we have a Prime Minister who has no mandate for rule as he has not taken himself to our electorate as a leader of his party. Will we sit idly by whilst he continues to bankrupt us as a country to the extent that every newborn child has over £20,000 of debt on their consciences? Will we sit idly by whilst we borrow from other countries at a rate of £330,000 a minute? And might this step of his to shut down the TA for half a year not raise a flicker of anger? In short will we let this shit fly any longer?

In short I am referring to Labour's latest gimmick to save money they have squandered. They have very little to offer us apart from cuts; indeed they say we must continue to support private and public services in the recession by offering support for unemployed people. It would be ludicrous to disagree with the notion of helping the jobless get jobs, but let us ask how we have come to such a stage of financial crisis; it is because Gordon Brown is such a bad man to run our country, his own staff frequently leave citing personal clashes as reasons, instead they are decent people but this tyrannical man is so awful that if he instead had left ten years ago we would probably not be in such a sorry state of affairs. When will people wake up and smell the coffee? When will people say enough is enough and insist this man leave office? What more will it take for us to remove this tyrannical cretin from anywhere apart from a padded cell?

As ironic as this may sound, I must go to the worst sort of criminal and borrow his words, as regicide is the worst possible crime to imagine then this ought to ring true "In the name God, go!"

Christopher Loftus
NUCA General Secretary