Originally Posted by
ORAC
I am normally the first to criticise MOD and RN public relations - for example the way that during the CSG21 deployment it fell to the BBC and Sky to report the multiple interceptions of Russian aircraft by carrier based F-35Bs working with the destroyers, and the detection and tracking of Russian and Chinese submarines by frigates working with carrier based ASW Merlins - but I think that pre election purdah has applied to virtually all news stories from every Government department.
There have been interesting international events happening in the background.