British Troops and Rachel Chandler

Time is of the essence.

It has gone past the time when a small team of elite, deadly armed people, arrive in the very early hours, and lift out Rachel and Paul Chandler, leaving their Somalian abductors with no doubt over who rules the seas, and who safeguards their own.


The fact that it has not been done yet, shows how ineffective our government is, how malaise our military super-brass are and how concerned our ministers are, for their own self being. The Navy should not need to be told to deploy essential troops to remove a hostile threat to our country folk. The government should not have allowed the Somali, or other pirates to abduct our people, and the MP’s who support the Prime Minister should have been urging him to deploy a recovery team before this abduction was a week old.


If we lose Paul and Rachel to those Somali hands, then those in command will have as much blood on their hands as any other criminals and they should have their freedom removed. Simple as that, lose their income, lose their right to a home, lose their right to travel and lose their right to decide when and what they want to do. Just like those two people held captive in a foreign land.


Our once proud armed forces could have terminated this entire fiasco within hours of it being reported, but such is the limp command, the ineffective decision making and the lack of authoritative control, I fear we are showing the evil few in the world, that our ability to respond under threat, has all but evaporated.


We let anyone into the country, we pay criminals to leave, and then let them back in, we allow anyone to claim fraudulently, tens of thousands of taxpayers pounds, from bankers, to politicians, from criminals to homeless foreigners, yet the simple act of rescuing two people from a backward coastline, seems to be something that defeats us.


Today, our military, our government and those we trust show they are weak as water, spineless and gutless and need to be removed and replaced with people who know what to do when things go wrong.


VS