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The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:41 am

Thought there was a lot of activity at Horse Guards and the Admiralty this morning! The Gambia has decided to leave the CommonwealthEmpire. I'm not going with the Army of Reconquest, mind. I'm waxing my moustaches that day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24376127
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by JimC » Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:43 am

About their glorious leader:
Also at the UN, Mr Jammeh said homosexuality was one of the three "biggest threats to human existence".

He has also drawn international criticism for claiming he can cure Aids with a herbal body rub and bananas.
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:48 am

From Wiki:-

In 2011 he told the BBC that "I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so."
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by mistermack » Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:48 am

The Commonwealth loses one tin-pot dictator. It's better and stronger for it.

He can go the way of Mugabe, and be used as an international joke, to bolster the myth that Africa is run by scum like him.
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Faithfree » Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:55 am

I'm guessing the Commonwealth was trying to come between the president and his human rights abuses. :coffee:
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:56 am

We'd better send in a gunboat...




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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:57 am

Aren't they taking a huge Gambia in doing this?
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Svartalf » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:08 pm

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:We'd better send in a gunboat...




...just provided the Frogs have one they'll let us borrow.
So long as you put your own SAS team aboard... We had enough problems with the Raibnow Warrior without also offing a Black Monarch.
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Rum » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:15 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:Aren't they taking a huge Gambia in doing this?
Yeah - it was a pretty Sudan move..
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:21 pm

Kenya take your puns elsewhere???
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:22 pm

Rum wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:Aren't they taking a huge Gambia in doing this?
Yeah - it was a pretty Sudan move..
I Ghana hardly believe it.
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Svartalf » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:29 pm

That Jammeh guy is far from Benin, and that's a fact.
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:30 pm

The Germans are probably still after a place in the sun. Perhaps Angola Merkel would be interested?
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Faithfree » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:35 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:Aren't they taking a huge Gambia in doing this?
Uganda what you did there. :coffee:
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Re: The Gambia to leave the Empire

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:37 pm

I think The Gambia may be throwing the Zimbabwe out with the bath water.
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