I see Bob Ainsworth has been wheeled out to defend his boss today. Firstly, with regard to Gordon Brown's comments at the Iraq Inquiry last Friday, he wonders what axe Lord Guthrie has to grind with the PM, implying Lord Guthrie is a teller of untruths; then he continues by saying, "Gordon Brown didn't know how the money was spent."
Oh dearie me Bob, foot in mouth springs to mind. A poor effort.
Surely, when he was Chancellor, Gordon Brown didn't just hand out our money to the military without knowing what it was to be used for. Not even responsible parents hand out money to their offspring without asking why it's needed.
If Gordon Brown did not keep a detailed record of expenditure then he's more incompetent that I thought. Do the Treasury books just have 'MoD' next to every item? Sounds rather like it from Bob Ainsworth's words on Radio 4 a short time ago. There will be many senior civil servants bristling in the Treasury.
Brown and Ainsworth must think we're all rather simple minded and labour supporters to swallow such obvious nonsense.
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Is it just me, or has this bloke got a toothbrush moustache?
The only two people I can remember who looked like that were Blakey from "On the Buses", and the other one whose name escapes me was an Austrian painter and decorator with a foul temper and a passionate desire for world domination.
I'm lost with the definition of toothbrush moustache Marvo. My toothbrush certainly doesn't look like his tash, not one bit. It's round you see...
Lord Guthrie was CDS from 1997 to 2001. At the time Ainsworthless was a Labour whip then, in 2001, PUS at the unlamented DETR. He didn't move to the MoD until 2007.
You have to ask, how does he know anything about what went on?
Nice blog.
That's why his mutterings are obvious nonsense S Evil. He doesn't have a clue. When he took over he gave speeches to senior officers and told them that but said he would learn.
Marvellous isn't it the way the army up to put up with idiots.
Hello Chris. Kind of you to say so. Us bloggers need all the praise we can get at times don't we? ;)
SR,
The thing that Ainsworth said that really pissed the Army off was his 2009 claim that he could / should / would have been a Regimental Sergeant Major. Typically sycophantic Mirror interview, some suitably robust commentary from arrse.
I can't remember seeing that article Evil but it's along the lines of the speeches/talks I've heard about. He's in another world the man.
Off to read arrse now.
Everything this man say's pisses off the army. Only the announcement of his resignation could alter that.
Much as I'm loath to condemn any sentient being for the chance of visage making him a doppelganger to an Austrian house painter; you have to wonder at the competence and thick skinned arrogance of a government that fails to register this effect.
That said, whether admired or loathed the Austrian had a degree of competence. Whereas Ainsworth is the political equivalent of a dump truck; he's there to pick up the debris and, if he makes a reasonable job of that, he might be allowed to survive and get to tidy up the site.
Whatever your opinion of the Afghan conflict, the government has ensured they have a toady fighting the forces corner in Westminster.
The problem is though RA, Ainsworth doesn't fight their corner. He's a liability for them and they have no one to speak for them.
Rosa, what other purpose does a toady have?
I've been racking my brain RA and the answer which keeps coming to mind is 'none'.
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