tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886189736013458052.post432246488088889609..comments2023-06-29T12:54:27.214+01:00Comments on The Home of The Green Arrow: Major Paul Harding of "The Rifles"The Green Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08068638909478130288noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886189736013458052.post-25907346338469141202007-06-22T13:57:00.000+01:002007-06-22T13:57:00.000+01:00I read this and your points about des browne hit h...I read this and your points about des browne hit home.<BR/><BR/>Yesterday Gordy offered Paddy Ashdown a cabinet job.<BR/><BR/>It's a damn shame that Paddy, the eldest of seven children born in India to a lapsed catholic father serving as an officer in the Indian Army in the last years of the Raj, and a protestant mother, and who was then raised in ireland just before the troubles really kicked off, who finished his education in Bedford before signing up first with one, and then a second ELITE british military force, serving a total of thirteen years as an officer, before leaving to lead a british political party in westminster, didn't demand the job of Defence Minister.<BR/><BR/>I think he's rather more qualified to do that job than the current holder of the post. In fact, he's probably the best qualified to hold the job of anyone else in both houses...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com