http://waleshome.org/2009/07/hes-very-clearly-mad-right/ Independent analysis from and about Wales Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://waleshome.org/2009/07/hes-very-clearly-mad-right/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Alan Davies Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:55:01 +0000 http://waleshome.org/?p=794#comment-62 You make some interesting points and it would appear that the arguments about helicopters for the Army in Afghanistan are turning into an attack on Brown as much as an argument for more equipment. Whilst it is clear that Brown stopped a £1.4 billion investment in helicopters and he can therefore be pilloried for i. t, it is also beginning to come cleat that the public mood is one that is now on the one hand supportive of soldiers as individuals and the army as an institution, whilst disappointed to the extreme in the political leadership that is failing them. Defence Secretaries have come and gone, Brown is the only constant. And unfortunately for him the public mood is rejecting him because he was not elected to office. Mad or not - let him wallow in his moment. It surely won't last for as long as IWJ. You make some interesting points and it would appear that the arguments about helicopters for the Army in Afghanistan are turning into an attack on Brown as much as an argument for more equipment.
Whilst it is clear that Brown stopped a £1.4 billion investment in helicopters and he can therefore be pilloried for i. t, it is also beginning to come cleat that the public mood is one that is now on the one hand supportive of soldiers as individuals and the army as an institution, whilst disappointed to the extreme in the political leadership that is failing them. Defence Secretaries have come and gone, Brown is the only constant. And unfortunately for him the public mood is rejecting him because he was not elected to office.
Mad or not – let him wallow in his moment. It surely won’t last for as long as IWJ.

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