RAF jets leave Cyprus for combat mission over Iraq

[rebbonk]

Didn't take long, did it?

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/raf-...iraq-1-3555113

Now expect a further crack-down on our rapidly diminishing freedoms in the name of protecting us from terror. I expect a compulsory National ID card scheme to be mooted after 2015.

[Lex]

The RAF have chalked up their first bomb launches: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29434628

[rebbonk]

Sad isn't it?

Yet again, the idiots in power in this country pander to the USA.

[Lex]

Now expect a further crack-down on our rapidly diminishing freedoms in the name of protecting us from terror. I expect a compulsory National ID card scheme to be mooted after 2015.

That didn't take long did it? No doubt the powers intended to be used against Muslim extremists will soon be used against your run-of-the-mill-making-a-reasonable-protest-types as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29414574

[rebbonk]

Predictable wasn't it Lex?

And we must not forget that it's all for our own good though!

Stinks, doesn't it?

[Lex]

Yeah. I was wondering where the new power station was getting all its fuel from.