Re: Spexit!
"2) In cases confined to a European theatre of war. "
Reminds me of the John Bird and John Fortune (The Long John's on Bird, Bremner and Fortune) did in the lead up to the Iraq war where one was acting as a UK general who was talking up the capabilities of the UK army in answeer to every topic until asked if this would work in Iraq only to say "well, the British army has planned for years for a war in Northern Europe and in Iraq it's too hot/has sand everywhere/is hte wrong colour for our camoflague/etc" and ended up when asked fopr the solution by saying "well, we ought to write a letter to Sadaam Hussein and say that as we all clearly want to have a war then wouldn't he mind sending his army over to Northern Europe so we can fight them there"
N.b. this was one of the many sketches where they demonstrated their principle that the best way to satirise UK government policy was basically to repeat the UK government policy verbatim!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
