The government is scrapping the fleet of new Nimrods despite of offers to buy them. The planes are worth £4 billion and it has been revealed following some hacked phone calls that Ryan Air, who were quite keen to incorporate the notoriously uncomfortable aircraft into their equally uncomfortable fleet, had asked if they could come over one afternoon and have a look. This followed an initial government attempt to sell them on Ebay. The airline checked the planes over but could only put in an offer to ‘take them off your hands’, according to sources.
Sources also revealed other offers for the planes had been received. The government of a country, which sounded like Iran in a secretly taped call but the hacker wasn’t sure, wished to arm the long range aircraft with nuclear weapons and fly around and around all over Europe and the US day and night eavesdropping on governments’ security networks . The sale didn’t proceed as Ministry of Defence wouldn’t deliver the planes for free.
The government eventually removed the planes from Ebay as a decision to scrap them was made so as to fall in line with a broader government policy. A spokesperson for the coalition Condem government said, ‘The government felt that dismantling the planes was consistent with the wider policy of spending vast quantities of public money on projects and then consigning them to the scrapheap. The Olympic stadium is another great example of that policy, as is the intended dismantling of the Welfare state.’
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