Dear Sirs,
The news today reports that your ministry has decided to prevent the Red Arrows from performing at the Olympics, out of a fear of offending foreigners. Well, you have certainly offended at least one foreigner already.
As the son of a Royal Air Force fighter pilot who risked his life in combat to save the country from Hitler, I am furious at this outrageous decision. I had hoped to bring my children back to my father's homeland in 2012 to see the Olympics, but as long as this decision stands, my family and I will not be coming.
Britain will not see a penny of the thousands of pounds I would have spent on this event, unless some charity makes an appeal to purchase large quantities of tar and feathers for application to the hides of the despicable scum who made this decision.
I encourage everyone who feels as I do to let Lord Coe know:
And by all means, tell the government jobsworths what you think too:
Department for Culture, Media, and Sport
I am as angered by this as by anything the multi-culti nitwits in British government have ever done, and that's saying something.
-ccm
Good job. I could not convincingly say I would cross the street to see the Olympics, even if they were free, so I will have to write a different letter.
As to an aerial display, well....if they don't like the Red Arrows, with their cheerful little red training jets, well, then, how about a few Lancs groaning overhead wingtip-to-wingtip? The Germans will remember the sound of all those Rolls-Royce Merlins, lol......the older ones will instinctively dive under the stands shouting "Alaaaaaaarrrmmm!!" lol
As for me, while I was visiting Hadrian's Wall, there was some sort of NATO aerial exercise underway, with all sorts of aircraft zooming around, mostly Buccaneers and F-111's flying nap-of-the earth. I was very pleased at the fillip. I was especially impressed to look down from the walls of the old Roman fort at Birdoswald, on a pair of my countrymen thundering past in an aerial Aardvark, afterburners lit, in the valley before us. Yaaa, hoo.
Only a year and a month or two later, those same aviators were sporting flashy red shoulder-patches that read "BAGHDAD BASH / LET'S PARTY".