Tee hee

I am told that when Alan West was First Sea Lord, this was the joke which went round the navy:

What's the definition of a straight line?

The space between Alan West and a TV camera.

Given that he has now pulled out of an interview with Andrew Marr tomorrow, that no longer appears to be true.

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