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A View From


Welcome to my monthly column “A view from the top”. Hopefully you will find my rambling readable (maybe even enjoyable). You may agree or you may disagree with my views, I care not. These are my views long held and forged over a life time of work, travel and experience. Now that’s over let’s have a look at what is really winding me up.


The World's worst kept secret. Last year the UK Parliament debated whether Britain should spend several billion pounds of tax payers cash renewing its Trident Submarine fleet. After much discussion and debate it was decided that Britain would indeed go ahead and renew its fleet of four missile carrying nuclear submarines. During the debate, at no time were the assembled members of parliament


informed


that during a recent test firing of a Trident missile,


QF Focus Magazine


the said missile had failed in that, rather than fly on its merry way toward the African coast the bloody thing veered off and seemed to be heading for the coast of the United States. The missile was destroyed in flight and the UK Government was duly informed of the problem. At no time during the debate about spending tax payers money on this weapon of mass destruction was the matter of the missile failure brought to the attention of the assembled politicians. Early in January 2017 the Sunday Times informed its readers of the test failure after it (The Times) had gleaned the story from sources. When questioned the un-mandated PM Teresa May denied any knowledge of the test failure...not once but four times when asked by the journalist Andrew May. The next stage in this farce was to send Michael Fallon, the bumbling Defence Secretary, to the Commons to explain ...he actually made no attempt to explain saying in effect that as it was a secret and he did not have to answer to both the MPs and to us the people. Time and time again Tory MPs supported Fallon by asking prompted questions...ie... does the Defence Secretary agree with me that it would be folly to tell our enemy our business... hear hear they shouted. While this display of state obfuscation was underway... across the pond an American defence attaché was briefing CNN news as to the detail of the whole farrago. On a point of detail the British government are obliged under treaty terms to advise other powers of the fact that they are about to carry out a test firing ...so far from the enemy not being aware, they were probably filming the whole shambles as it happened. Or have I got it wrong...silly me it's the British public who are the enemy... what was I thinking!


Not so Civil Engineering. If like me you have cause to occasionally drive around Quesada and its environs, you cannot have failed to notice the state of the roads. It is almost impossible to drive in a straight line in certain parts of Quesada. The place is awash with civil engineering


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