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‘Queen names new Royal Navy aircraft carrier in Rosyth’

04/07/2014

The Ten O’Clock News: Not USA-Independence Day!

The government’s gone and bought itself a massive effing boat, the unveiling of which is a massive effing attempt to convince the Scottish people to vote Union. Personally, I would then vote ‘no’ because will the Scottish government have a warship capable of carrying “40 jets and helicopters”? No. Because the Scottish government will not be… Continue reading

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‘Queen names new Royal Navy aircraft carrier in Rosyth’

The Ten O’Clock News: Not USA-Independence Day!