Originally Posted by
craic
No. It's just an easy way to wind up the left. The rules were "mandated" or in place before the guy died. Flags to fly at half mast for the leader of ANY nation and we are quite happy to take their dollars and halal kill our mutton for them. Some of our vehicle have been known to run on their oil from time to time. They only chopped eighty or so last year and I'm sure that we could find eighty or so here whose demise would improve the place greatly - I met quite a few of them before I retired. As one colleague remarked " there is clearly a place for retrospective abortion in this country"