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What does the UK play? Solitaire?
Blind mans buff?
Pin the tail on the Donkey?
I was reading an article re the size of our military today and it was brought into context in that the New York Police Dept is now bigger than the whole of the UK's forces.
Ah the twists and turns of global strategy.
I would have thought NATO, or more precisely their leading members, best approach at the moment would try and build informal links on military strategy with China so the Ruskies would have to face both ways.
Being a paranoid lot anyway that ought to keep them on an even keel after all they face USA Pop 380M , EU/NATO 400M and China 1.5Bn vs Russia 160M and not many friends of their own except a 'Stan or two.
Of course if Britain leaves the EU we will save enough money on benefits for Roumanians and contributions to Brussels that we will be able to reopen the production lines for Spitfires and build some Tribal Class destroyers so will have nothing to fear anyway. Hang on both those things need these engineer chappies don't they ? God this stuff is a bit more complicated than hedge funds...
I would have thought NATO, or more precisely their leading members, best approach at the moment would try and build informal links on military strategy with China so the Ruskies would have to face both ways.
Being a paranoid lot anyway that ought to keep them on an even keel after all they face USA Pop 380M , EU/NATO 400M and China 1.5Bn vs Russia 160M and not many friends of their own except a 'Stan or two.
Of course if Britain leaves the EU we will save enough money on benefits for Roumanians and contributions to Brussels that we will be able to reopen the production lines for Spitfires and build some Tribal Class destroyers so will have nothing to fear anyway. Hang on both those things need these engineer chappies don't they ? God this stuff is a bit more complicated than hedge funds...
China is balancing between two sides and profiting from both.
"Of course if Britain leaves the EU we will save enough money on benefits for Roumanians"
is it politically incorrect to write their nationality wrong way?
"Of course if Britain leaves the EU we will save enough money on benefits for Roumanians"
is it politically incorrect to write their nationality wrong way?
About as politically incorrect (or plain incorrect) as suggesting they're all on benefits. It's extremely hard (nigh on impossible) to claim anything as an EU economic migrant.
Families from Somalia and those council estate terminally lazy families, now that's different.
Families from Somalia and those council estate terminally lazy families, now that's different.
I am sure you realise that was tongue in cheek and written with the Daily Mail style of reporting. However I confess to spelling Romania wrongly , in my defence I will say that I have just returned from the Czech republic and having barely seen a vowel all week over compensated by adding one to the much maligned East European country on the Black Sea
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New York Police Dept is now bigger than the whole of the UK's forces
