Chinooks to help the French

The French have been confronting Islamist opponents in Saharan Africa for some time. RAF C-17 cargo planes helped transport French armoured vehicles to Mali in 2013 when the French first began their military campaign against the Islamist rebels.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...military-helicopters-french-campaign-against/

Now, according to the telegraph, we are helping to move their troops around with Chinnys.

"Whitehall sources said Britain had offered the transport aircraft to make up for shortfalls in French helicopter numbers".

 

[Witty_Banter]

Just trying to get Macron on-side for Brexit...

 

[Tin basher]

Just trying to get Macron on-side for Brexit...

And letting us borrow the Bayeux tapestry
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42713552
And asking us for £44.5M funding to help Calais migrant solutions
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...445m-for-calais-security-in-anglo-french-deal

 

[Gonterseed]

Even if all of us were to drop our trousers they wouldn't stick to any promises they would make or infer to us.

However, if there was even a slight hint of a promise that they would eagerly elect a president with the biggest nose on earth and collaborate at the earliest opportunity with anyone who is out to get us we'd never be able to accuse them of going back on that one...