I would go for BAD - as his name is easy to remember...sounds like " I'm a dinner-jacket"

Brumas - Leave my favourite uncle alone. He is good - for nothing.

You lot thought I would be busy elsewhere because it's Sunday didn't you. You know I go to church on Sundays of course, that makes me good. I hate you two that makes me bad. You two are ugly as well so that makes three of us. When the LHO sees what you have said about me Macscouse, you will be for the high jump.

Earthsea. Have you teamed up with those two? As soon as I saw the header, I thought what a brilliant "set up" that was.

Hope our FE knows we are only joshing.....

I suppose these countries with nuclear ambitions think "Why should little trumped up nations like the British and French, have nuclear weapons and not us"? So they want to get on the bandwagon. As far as I can see the only way of stopping them is to use our weapons on them. Not a good policy, but may be the only one open to nations like us. God help our Grandchildren.

johndrew. I've got a lot of Jewish friends, I talk to them often and most of them feel upset by the thought of nuclear weapons in the hands of some of the states that surround Israel. They have family members living there, who feel threatened. If Israel is attacked it is odds on that the USA will help them retaliate. Then there may come the day when because the USA is involved our government will also get involved. We always seem to be helping out the good ole US of A in these wars. My big concern is the use of nuclear weapons anywhere on the Earth, that would affect us all in some way or other. There's no hiding place as the fall out will travel anywhere it likes, there are no boundaries. Remember the ash cloud from Iceland?

But who's side were the Yankie politicians on during the Falklands war? Who's side will they be on if that little lot escalates again? It looks as if it is going to as well. America is not keen on upsetting the South American countries, so could go against us. They went against us at the time of the Suez canal crisis. The consequences then didn't worry them too much and the consequences now wouldn't worry them too much either. Of course we do not have the facilities to go to war there again. Our politicians have done a brilliant job of reducing our armed forces to more or less zero. I think I heard a figure of 2% of our GDP is now spent on our armed forces, 10% wouldn't be enough in my estimation. We need new modern ships, new modern planes and new modern weapons for the forces we have at present. Supplying them with those might get our unemployment numbers down too.

Of course we could requisition large civilian liners (small ones would do now of course) to transport our troops out there again. But with the present record of the seamanship and the quality of foreign made ships these days, would they get there or would they break down on the way?

As others on this forum often say "Rant over, I'll get me coat".