Compare and Contrast

 The aircraft carrier Cavour, equipped with all its helicopters, field hospitals, skilled personnel etc., was despatched to Haiti to help after the worst earthquake for over a century.  It was un atto dovuto, an act required of our country in common humanity said the Head of State.

 The aircraft carrier Ark Royal has been deployed as a Channel ferry to 'bring home' 'stranded Britons' who have failed to ensure that they can cope should pre-paid cheap travel tickets not be usable on set dates.



The Brown regime sent some corrugated iron sheets to Haiti, and sends the Ark Royal to Calais.



UPDATE (just to add uselesness to the wrongness of using the Royal Navy's flagship as a ferry boat)
From the Times:
'...two of the three Royal Navy warships dispatched this morning to rescue stranded travellers still do not have an assigned destination.
Eight hours after Gordon Brown’s announcement, a Ministry of Defence spokesperson said that neither HMS Ark Royal nor HMS Ocean had been given a destination and that it was “unlikely” that any British passengers would be picked up tonight.
A spokesperson for P&O Ferries said that the plans to bring in the Navy were little more than a gesture. “It might sound attractive to get in an aircraft carrier to take 1,000 people at a time, but we can carry five times that capacity. If anything is needed, it’s a large, purpose-built foot passenger ferry to scoop them all up.
“The lion’s share of the repatriation will be done by professional ferry companies working all along the French coast...'