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Tuesday 16 September 2008
Red Arrows to be banned from 2012 Olympics as they are too British
6 comments:
Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
This story is a load of old tosh, and has been disproved. I think it is a ploy to divert attention from Mr Brown's current problems.
ReplyDelete14.02 You may be right, however I have developed a somewhat tarnished view of some government departments recently, so I’m taking no chances and signing the parliamentary petition anyway.
ReplyDeleteBy the time this government has finished with our Armed Forces the Red arrows will be carrying formation performances on a bicycle.
ReplyDeleteWe can not have anything British can we, the sooner Labour is out the better for this country
15.22 I don’t believe this is so much a party political issue, more a case of having developed institutionalised political correctness, I find the groups in society that I talk to who dislike this most are the British with different racial backgrounds.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very old "scare" story and utter rubbish. I'm surprised at you Michael
ReplyDeleteLondon 2012 has responded to reports that the Red Arrows have been banned from the Opening Ceremony of the Games, describing the rumours as 'utter nonsense'.
The London 2012 Organising Committee will decide what to include in all celebrations and they will be a showcase of the best the UK has to offer. But with five years to go, decisions are yet to be made on what the celebrations will look like.
The Red Arrows have in fact been used before in connection to London and the Games. They did a spectacular fly over of Trafalgar Square in London to celebrate winning the bid in July 2005, and also flew over the Mall when the Athens Torch Relay was in London in 2004.
The DCMS and the Red Arrows themselves also released statements refuting the claims about the ban.
Source
http://www.london2012.com/news/archi...ows-rumour.php
Sorry David I should have been clearer here, Jocelyn of the Ramsgate Society asked me to post it, I did say I doubted its authenticity, but he seemed pretty convinced as he had had a reply from the house of commons when he signed the petition. I am afraid to admit it was both too funny not to post and the picture too good, after the business about not photographing Ramsgate Library because of the school girls both Jocelyn and I would believe almost any crazy story that came from a government department.
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