taken in rear by self-promoters

The paper for “our boys” launches Golden Squaddie award. Potential recipients hostile:

At the risk of being banned from Liverpool like Boris Johnson and others I must say that the unequivocal response of the Scouse nation to the Scum's reporting of the Hillsborough disaster - reducing the circulation in that city from over 200,000 to less than 10,000 overnight and maintaining the boycott today - is one of the few things that endear me to the current Capital of Culture.

If you buy it, let your mates buy it, read it/look at the tits in it then you only have yourself to blame. Only a complete military boycott of the Scum would send the message and make them fuck off and stop bothering us."

Via. Now that's worth organising. Army Rumour Service habitués have launched a petition to get it banned, on grounds of “decency.” Sign here.

Comments

[chris y]

What the fuck is the MoD thinking, putting its name on this shit? Even if it was a good idea, I'm not sure they should be associating themselves with it; as it stands, it looks like exactly the kind of HR stunt that in civilian life makes you reach for the jobs pages. Des Browne ought to be badly beaten up in Parliament by all sides.