Bribe the Taliban

British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday. The Taliban pays ten dollars a day to fighters, that equals £5.95 a day. the thinking being if we gave them say 15 dollars a day that’s £8.92 to you and me  they would switch sides.

What we should be offering are Tax credits and child benefit plus a free house with garden, that should seal the deal, if any terrorists are still undecided then chuck in a car an i phone and membership to the local golf club.

This is a brilliant idea in theory, after all the cost of running a war like this runs into the billions, not to mention the cost in human life,

But can anyone seriously believe  that this would work, I would love to spend a day in Whitehall watching the way the “Genius’s” that come up with theses ideas work and also to enquire which planet they originally came from.

Everybody knows that terrorists are the most trustworthy of people and no way would they consider taking the money and still shoot at us. any suggestion that the money we give them could in turn be used to buy more bullets and explosives to be used against us is preposterous.

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Higgin’s Snookered

The world’s number one  snooker player was suspended last night after allegations that he was willing to take a £261,000 bribe.

John Higgins claimed that he had agreed to lose frames in four matches against three prominent players because he feared he was being threatened by the Russian mafia.

In a sting by the News of the world Higgins was exposed as a money grabbing cheat, he has tried to weasel his way out of this by making the allegation about gangsters, but having watched the clip of Higgins and his manager there is no doubt from the body language of both men that there was no duress involved.

The player, who won the world title in 1998, 2007 and 2009 and was appointed MBE for services to sport  insisted yesterday that he was innocent, I have no sympathy for Higgins and hope that he receives a life ban and has his MBE taken of  him, the image of snooker as a gentleman's game has been shattered and only strong and immediate action by the game’s governing body can bring any sort of credibility back.

I don’t for a second believe that Higgins is the only player to be involved with this betting syndicate  because of the huge sums involved in frame betting and more names will come out in the following days and weeks.

It will take a long time for snooker to recover from this.

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