Tag: chaps

Scramble, chaps, for Scrapper Shapps

In an article for the Telegraph, Grant Shapps bemoans the failure of our Nato allies to spend sufficiently on their armed forces to keep our adversaries at bay. Captain W.E. John Ellwood (RFC Ret’d) imagines our Defence Secretary on the front line. Acting Flight Commander Shappsworth, popularly known as ‘Shapps’, ‘Scrapper Shapps’, or sometimes, ‘Go-get-em Grant’ was […]