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*UNLOCKED* Britainology 24: The Army (feat. Joe Glenton)

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What's the Difference Between Rhetoric and Perception?

The army has always been politically a bit of a mess. You would assume that the tories are more naturally the party of the troops, as the republicans are in the state,. But the tories hate the army or the armed forces in general and they're obsessed because it's so british. For me it's like, for all the, we can't have roads that don't aren't full of pot holes, because we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on the wars. When i was in afghanistan, our helmets got recalled because the, a bad lot of helmets made by a prison labor manufacturer had been issued to us. That kind of highlighted the contrast

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