Government PR assault!

**stackpole** · 6 June 2006, 16:07

What a nice man Gordon Brown is!

**MrsGoof** · 6 June 2006, 16:30

from the news story

In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women".

SO what do these doctors and scientists know

**OwlHoot** · 6 June 2006, 18:37

Originally posted by Mailman

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...es/5052152.stm

Gee's, the things the government stoops to get its next PM (althouth temporary PM) seen in a good light.

Mailman

From the BBC article:

At the celebrations, Mr Brown revealed events scheduled for the first national Veterans Day on 27 June this year.

Plans for the new annual day, to ensure the sacrifices of the Armed Forces were never forgotten, were announced in February.

Sounds like they want to phase out Remembrance day in November. I guess one can't go on commemorating the WW1 armistice (Nov 11, 11:00am) for ever, especially once the last vet has popped his clogs, although I would have thought 2018 would be a better final year.

**xoggoth** · 6 June 2006, 19:01

2018? That's no good. The Rapture starts in 2016. Ask Chico. I shall wait until Dec 2015 to become a devout Christian.

**threaded** · 6 June 2006, 19:34

I was just relating this thread to the girly, and just started the quote and she finished it. And what's more she's Danish so ... that's it I'm off to bed.

Originally posted by MrsGoof

In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women".

**stackpole** · 6 June 2006, 22:09

Originally posted by the article

In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women".

Perhaps the chancellor is thanking the old boy for all the tobacco and alcohol duty he's donated to pay for the war in Iraq.

**Mailman** · 7 June 2006, 10:40

Originally posted by OwlHoot

From the BBC article:

Sounds like they want to phase out Remembrance day in November. I guess one can't go on commemorating the WW1 armistice (Nov 11, 11:00am) for ever, especially once the last vet has popped his clogs, although I would have thought 2018 would be a better final year.

27 June aye, is that going to be a new bank holiday or just one of the pointless "jesture" commemorations?

Mailman

**bogeyman** · 7 June 2006, 11:50

Congratulations! You have just qualified for your state pension!

Government PR assault!