Re: Nigel's new Brexit Party
Talking of the Loony Party, it should be remembered that there is nothing new since Compo took over.
Just watching my recording of a documentary about the British aircraft industry which, in the '50s and '60s, was undoubtedly the best in the world.
Two very important things were done by the Labour Party in this respect, which compromised our country in a number of ways:
- Wilson's government very kindly sold one of our early jet engines (Nene) to the Russians, who (predictably) copied it and used it to power their MiG15 fighters which proved to be the best of its kind in the whole world.
- Then they cancelled our TSR2. Perhaps not many people have heard of this, understandable because no sooner had our industries developed it, it was cancelled for political reasons (money). This would have been way ahead of anything in any other country - a supersonic replacement for our ageing V-bombers: faster, more manoeuvrable, more 'stealthy', a crew of two as opposed to five, yet could deliver the same weapon load.
I'm struggling to think of anything the Loonies have ever done that didn't compromise this country.