Difficult to beat the idiotic accusation that Mrs May ‘covered up’ the misfiring of a Trident missile
The surest way to guarantee the collapse of deterrence would be an announcement from the Government that it had failed
Trident tested
AS manufactured rows go, it would be difficult to beat the idiotic accusation that Mrs May “covered up” the misfiring of a Trident missile on a test.
There was further supposed outrage after she refused to confirm the incident on TV yesterday.
But what else was she meant to do?
The surest way to guarantee the collapse of deterrence would be an announcement from the Government that a Trident test had failed.
Apart from any immediate threat from telling the world that our nuclear deterrent didn’t work, our enemies would — rightly — think we had gone mad.
It is, of course, deeply worrying that the first test in four years was apparently a “disastrous failure”, as one person involved put it.
But that’s the point of tests: to find out what does and doesn’t work.
As for Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, who spent yesterday sounding off about it: the moment anyone takes them seriously on national defence, we may as well hand over the nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin.
Criminal waste
WHO knew that all you need to do to get the taxpayer to buy you a flatscreen TV, new kitchen and pool table is to ask?
Personal injury lawyers Asons Solicitors told Bolton Council that if they didn’t get a £300,000 handout they’d move offices.
It’s difficult to know what’s worse. The shameless greed of the law firm — or the stupidity of the council, which handed the money over, despite having to make £43million cuts this year.
But one thing’s for sure: where there’s a claim, there’s blame.
Toothless justice
LEE Rigby’s killer Michael Adebolajo stands to win a small fortune in compensation after some of his teeth got broken while prison guards tried to restrain him.
This is what happens when a legal system loses touch with basic sense.
Instead of being given the chance to grab money from the rest of us, Adebolajo should be left to rot.
Power steering
NEWLY released papers reveal officials’ fears that Margaret Thatcher would crash a new Rover during a 1986 photocall because she was so out of practice.
It all passed off smoothly, and the PM completed the manoeuvre perfectly.
But even if she’d reversed into a ditch, the only alternative for voters was Labour’s Neil Kinnock... who would have crashed the economy instead.