Dear All
Geoff Hoon, the former defence secretary declared ‘hoongate’ is over.
Hoongate 2 is now running against Gordon Brown.
This one has real teeth; the Prime Minister vetoed the purchase of vital military helicopters for Afghanistan.
Leaked ministerial letters show how, as chancellor, Brown directly and repeatedly prevented Hoon from ordering life-saving battlefield equipment for Afghanistan and Iraq.
This letter show how personally overturned the Treasury assurances that the Ministry of Defence would get the extra cash to spend on troop-carrying helicopters for Iraq and Afghanistan.
A lot of British service personnel died in the field because this equipment was withheld from them.
The leaked letters were passed to the Sunday Times by the Royal Air Force, such is the contempt that Brown is held in that everyone has a single uniting purpose at the General Election, get rid of him.
Lack of air support has forced British troops to take dangerous journeys by road, exposing them to deadly Taliban bombs; many were killed, ripped apart by IED bombs.
Brown has always denied the claims he refused to fund the military properly, now the evidence is out in the public domain, his position is untenable both as leader of the Labour Party and the Government.
There seems to be a plan to have a drip drip campaign against Brown to try and force him to step down from inside his own party.
The forces are supposed to be politically neutral and these letters and their leaking show that the Government has lost the support of the military.
September 26, 2003, Brown wrote to Blair and Hoon to say;
“I must disallow immediately any flexibility for the Ministry of Defence to move resources between cash and non-cash.”
In other words no new helicopters for the boys at the front!
A lot of people are dead because of Gordon Brown’s incompetence.
The new Hoongate 2 scandal may see him resign if he has any decency left.
Yours sincerely
Geoff Hoon, the former defence secretary declared ‘hoongate’ is over.
Hoongate 2 is now running against Gordon Brown.
This one has real teeth; the Prime Minister vetoed the purchase of vital military helicopters for Afghanistan.
Leaked ministerial letters show how, as chancellor, Brown directly and repeatedly prevented Hoon from ordering life-saving battlefield equipment for Afghanistan and Iraq.
This letter show how personally overturned the Treasury assurances that the Ministry of Defence would get the extra cash to spend on troop-carrying helicopters for Iraq and Afghanistan.
A lot of British service personnel died in the field because this equipment was withheld from them.
The leaked letters were passed to the Sunday Times by the Royal Air Force, such is the contempt that Brown is held in that everyone has a single uniting purpose at the General Election, get rid of him.
Lack of air support has forced British troops to take dangerous journeys by road, exposing them to deadly Taliban bombs; many were killed, ripped apart by IED bombs.
Brown has always denied the claims he refused to fund the military properly, now the evidence is out in the public domain, his position is untenable both as leader of the Labour Party and the Government.
There seems to be a plan to have a drip drip campaign against Brown to try and force him to step down from inside his own party.
The forces are supposed to be politically neutral and these letters and their leaking show that the Government has lost the support of the military.
September 26, 2003, Brown wrote to Blair and Hoon to say;
“I must disallow immediately any flexibility for the Ministry of Defence to move resources between cash and non-cash.”
In other words no new helicopters for the boys at the front!
A lot of people are dead because of Gordon Brown’s incompetence.
The new Hoongate 2 scandal may see him resign if he has any decency left.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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