‘No Interest’

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The Ministry of Defence has published its full archive of reported UFO sightings, but not before ‘uncomplimentary comments’ were blacked out along with comments about international relations and defence technology.

What a pity. We could do with some light relief in what seems to me to be an extended run-up to the General Election. What were these uncomplimentary remarks I wonder? Things like: ‘Utter Tosh!’, ‘What Rot!’, ‘Pure Drivel!’? Surely not?

And then my attention was drawn to a sniffy comment by an MoD spokesman. ‘Contrary to what many members of the public may believe, MoD has no interest in the subject of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the UK, only in ensuring the integrity and security of UK airspace.’

What then if a flying saucer landed in Hyde Park? Would the MoD have some interest then? Or would some ‘Civil Enforcement Officer’ come along and slap a parking ticket on it?
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Another Cover-Up?

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The Ministry of Defence has moved to another job the man who ran its UFO Unit which has now been closed down.

After fifty years of collecting public sightings of UFOs, the Ministry say that none of them yielded any proof of extraterrestrial life. They say that in future, ‘Any legitimate threat to the UK's airspace will spotted by our 24/7 radar checks and dealt with by RAF fighter aircraft’.

They may well be right, but what’s the betting that others will say that closure of the unit is part of some sort of cover-up?

Me? I don’t have an opinion - even though I’m sure I’ve seen a UFO. Oh, and so has my wife who was with one of our sons at the time!
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It’s A Start

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We have complained for years that the Blair and Brown governments have not been paying attention to public views. That was certainly the case with a referendum over the EU Treaty.

But there are signs that, doubtless due to a pending General Election, the government, or at least Gordon Brown, is paying attention.

Take immigration, for instance. Brown has announced that he is ‘tightening’ immigration rules by reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe. OK, that’s a start.

He has also announced that he will ‘examine’ the bonuses paid to civil servants in the Ministry of Defence after it was revealed that these amounted to £47 millions so far this year.

One can’t say that Brown has reacted much to public and press opinion so far, but it’s a start.
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