Closer military ties with France is this right for our armed forces?
 

It has been announced today that our armed forces are going to work more closely with france.Is this right for us, france looks after france when push comes to shove as during the falklands war for example when they were still selling exocet missles to argentina.:confused:

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Remember the Air France Concord crash? If the French had fitted new tyres(as BA did) instead of remoulds the bit of metal probably wouldn't have shredded the tyre. So Air France grounded its Concords but of course the French didn't like BA continuing to fly theirs!
So what did they do? They decided they would refuse to supply BA with any spares.Result-no BA Concords flying.
So come the day we say 'please may we borrow your aircraft carrier' if the French don't like what we want it for- guess what? The Charles de Gaulle will suddenly need urgent repairs.
Are we mad??

Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys
 

I might live there but join with them militarily? May God forbid
As the Mayor of Paris said to the German General when they took Paris - "Table for two thousand Messieur?":eek::eek::confused:

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Sorry, hadn't seen this when I erupted about Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys

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I merged your thread with this which is why your post is above

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OK Neil, no problem whatsoever.:)

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Always knew French at School would come in handy,

Je me rends

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You are now seeing the start of the Armed Forces of the United States of Europe.
The French and Germans want it and we've now opened the door and let them in. And we as the biggest military power in the EU will naturally be the main contributor-at OUR expense! The EU already has its own Foreign Minister, soon it will have its own Armed Forces-mainly ours. No independant Foreign Policy or armed defence or intervention for the UK-another score for the EU bureaucrats, our new masters.

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and as usual the tories doing the opposite of what they say they stand for:rolleyes: lets hope the argentinians dont invade the falklands

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The Fench I learned even the French wouldn't understand Less:rolleyes:

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In the words of Charles De Gaulle 'Non'.

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If ever there was a RIGHT time to get out of Europe - this is most certainly IT.

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It hurts but I have to fully agree! The one party I thought would protect our independent Military!
The Charles de Gaulle is already inoperable and our planes(once the Harriers go) couldn't use it.So when Ark Royal goes be nice to the Argentineans or else!

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nowt surprises me these days, in fact getting around the negotiating table wi Bin Laden would not be a shock,:rolleyes: after all it seemed a good idea wi Adams n McGuinness.:(

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Providing the French troops come under British Officers then it might just work - remember the Free French troops in WWII.
But French Officers - Non, Je ne peux pas accepter cela.
Under French Officers - The Peninsular War, Trafalgar, Waterloo, WWI, WWII, Dien Bien Phu, Algeria - Je ne pense pas ainsi (I do not think so)