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the maths don't add up
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Report Ramruma • November 19, 2015 9:11 AM GMT
We're all in it together.
Report brendanuk1 • November 19, 2015 9:41 AM GMT
We have decided to adapt one of our existing Voyager aircraft so that, in addition to its primary air tanking role, it can transport Ministers and it will also be available for the Royal family to use.

how can it be both transport for PM and air refueling tanker Confused would stink of petrol for a start!
Report xmoneyx • November 19, 2015 10:55 AM GMT
glue sniffersExcited
Report Ted Brogan • November 19, 2015 11:15 AM GMT
£10m (estimated) up front cost to save £775,000 a year (another 'estimate'). Even with these undoubtedly dodgy figures it'll take 13 years to recoup the outlay?! What a joke!
Report xmoneyx • November 19, 2015 11:18 AM GMT
can we crowdfund a RAF planeExcited
Report 1st time poster • November 19, 2015 11:21 AM GMT
offered to take junior drs for a day trip on their strike days ,all heart our dave
meanwhile the government intends to up the ante for a strike vote to 99.9%
Report Aunty Post • November 19, 2015 12:12 PM GMT
Totally my first thoughts TB and that is just accepting the qoted figures and not giving more thought to additional expense!

So it's like a "pool car" but just wonder who gets first shout: Cameron or the royals.

No doubt Wills and Kate will be hankering after it for their jollys, but having flown them to some exotic place half way round the world, does it sit on the ground to take them back, or fly half way round the world again to whizz Cameron of on another jaunt, or as stated to spend two weeks in the air as a refuelling plane, and then halfway round the world to pick up Wills and Kate and then halfway round the world back, and then off to retrieve Cameron.

They are as naive a set of figures, as a young couple might contrive to convince themselves that they can afford a new car, and 50" TV,
if they stop smoking and don't go out on a Saturday night, and give up their season ticket to LUFC!
Report Aunty Post • November 19, 2015 12:13 PM GMT
....the quoted figures
Report Aunty Post • November 19, 2015 12:16 PM GMT
....then consider that if Wills and Kate, and Cameron, want to return at the same time, which of them get the bus!!
Report dustybin • November 19, 2015 12:19 PM GMT
couldnt one of the rich benefactors buy him one?
after all he is doing their work for em

could share blair force one
Report dustybin • November 19, 2015 12:27 PM GMT
too good for Rebeka's horse now?
Report Latalomne • November 19, 2015 1:19 PM GMT
It's not a new plane.  It's an aeroplane already within the inventory that is going to be refitted and partially re-roled. 

In the current climate it makes total sense for our leader/head of state to have a dedicated, military-operated aeroplane, not least because of the added security aspect.
Report lfc1971 • November 19, 2015 1:49 PM GMT
Wish the plebs would shut up.
Report mememe • November 19, 2015 2:06 PM GMT
For goodness sake ...

just pay your taxes.  That's what hard working families do.

You know it makes sense

CrazyCrazyCrazy
Report Aunty Post • November 19, 2015 2:11 PM GMT
Absolutely!!

Do we know how old this plane is likely to be, and what the life expectancy is, or is it infinite given regular maintenance?
Report dustybin • November 19, 2015 2:16 PM GMT
this guy's cartoon of dave always make me chortle
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2015/oct/08/steve-bell-cameron-legacy-dave-who-put-his****-in-a-pig-video
Report mememe • November 19, 2015 2:22 PM GMT
will the queen have her own dunny?

Imagine that she wants to go for a wee, and Dave's just been in before her and done a big and smelly no. 2.

But maybe they'll heve an air freshener thing with "by Royal Appointment" on it.
Report dustybin • November 19, 2015 2:25 PM GMT
they'll have a load of poor people employed part time to suck the air out
Report dustybin • November 19, 2015 2:26 PM GMT
...on zero hour contracts obviously
Report Latalomne • November 19, 2015 3:21 PM GMT
It is a Voyager procured under the (controversial) AirTanker PFI.  There is spare capacity within the fleet, so much so that one aircraft is already leased to Thomas Cook.
Report 1st time poster • November 19, 2015 3:25 PM GMT
cameron can only wish he was a target for terrorist ,he,s so irrelevant in the world he could walk down the high street in raqqa in his bullington suit and wouldnt raise an eyebrow
Report themightymac • November 19, 2015 4:14 PM GMT
Waste of tax payers cash supplementing a lifestyle for a bunch of parasites. Would have been cheaper giving them a bus pass.
Report Zazu • November 19, 2015 4:39 PM GMT
the chit chat peasants out in force

Anyone with a bit of dosh is flying on private jets and chit chat thinks the PM should be in economy class with the working class Mischief
Report xmoneyx • November 19, 2015 4:47 PM GMT
only hope the pilot does a John Denver
Report akabula • November 19, 2015 11:03 PM GMT
Should be a brand new custom built plane. Good on ye DC for saving the nation a fortune.
Report Just Checking • November 19, 2015 11:15 PM GMT
Sadly, we both knew the sort of knee jerk reactionary ignorance you'd read in this thread before you clicked on it..
Report lfc1971 • November 19, 2015 11:39 PM GMT
The working class really are ghastly. Nobody likes poor people, who can deny that?
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