LATEST ON BIGGIN HILL MEDIA SAYS CHAPEL SAVED [but read what has actually been said] After several days of increasingly bloody headlines for the Ministry of Defence in newspapers ranging from the Guardian [no surprise there] to the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail [seriously worrying for the Cameron Coalition] the Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Fallon has been able to execute what former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie used to call a “Reverse Ferret”, with the media being encouraged to announce that St George’s Chapel at Biggin Hill has been “saved” from closure. However, as is always the case in issues where the Government faces embarrassment and seeks to spin its way out of it, the true situation is far from clear. All that has actually been announced is that Biggin Hill Airport Ltd, on whose site the chapel stands, will consult with the MoD, and the London Borough of Bromley regarding underwriting the costs of keeping the chapel open after March 2016. There is no actual undertaking to keep the chapel open at all. Further analysis at thePipeLine thepipeline.info/blog/2015/01/06/fallon-reverse-ferret-as-biggin-chapel-saved-sort-of/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:30:03 +0000
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