Now this is odd. Just when every other area of government spending is being cut by between 25% and 40% the British taxpayer is being forced to cough up the money to pay for the first airstrip on St Helena.
That’s right, I am talking about the remote island where we exiled Napoleon Bonaparte.
4,000 people live on St Helena, which is 1,200 miles off the African coast. The airstrip is going to cost £100 million pounds.
So how did this curious anomaly come about, you may ask. Well, let me say that I know for certain it has nothing to do with the fact that Lord Ashcroft, who funds the Tory party, is a long time supporter of the airstrip. It is outrageous to say that the decision was taken because he ‘buzzed’ the island in his private plane to publicise the need for an airport. It is scurrilous to say that it is because he demanded the airstrip in a radio interview.
Any of you subversive types who says otherwise needs a damned good horse-whipping!
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July 29th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Oddly enough, I was spending some mindless moments on the BBC/Nick Robinson blog,
and there he was , agreeing with a Liberal politician’s view about the Napoleonic nature
of a D Cameron.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/
Perhaps this is all preparation for when it all goes **ts up for Monsieur Cameron, and friends.