While most Americans are home safe, warmand eating turkey, those of us on Operation Joint Endeavor will be keeping the peace in a land where many people still want to kill their neighbors.
Mr Stevenson said "Scotland faced its coldest winter temperatures in almost a century - and quite rightly people across Scotland needed to heat their homes to keep warmandsafe".
Mr Major was simply saying that the ordinary and intrinsic pleasantness of English life was safe from these fiends, cricket andwarm beer not being amendable to a 20-metre wicket and compulsory lager.