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PADDY McGUFFIN despairs of Nato as its biennial back-slapping camp comes to a close in Newport

Well it’s been quite week hasn’t it?

The Nato bean feast in South Wales is winding up, the last of the champagne quaffed, oysters shucked and the assembled wasters poured into their private jets nursing taxpayer funded gout attacks.

And what exactly have they achieved? Apart from the square root of sweet FA. 

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