The RED ARROWS aerobatic squadron of the Royal Air Force
brings huge pride and international prestige to the UK, but the Treasury bean-counters in our beloved Government want to axe the Reds to save a couple of shillings. The personnel, pilots and aircraft of the squadron are all capable of deployment elsewhere in the RAF, so the money really saved would be peanuts.
Cynics might observe that the move is a covert campaign to expunge from the public mind a potent and highly visible symbol of the very best of the Royal Air Force as an independent Air Arm of a United Kingdom giving up its identity to Europe...
10 Downing St website has an online petition.
<http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SaveTheReds/>
Please sign it. Don't let them get away with this.
