The new Royal yacht
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Poor old hangarshuffle. Overfill with bile today, did we?
It must be such a burden to have to live in such a dreadful place as Britain.
Couldn't you find somewhere better and more fair, more societally balanced, like Cuba, or Belarus, or N Korea?
Do try, please!
It must be such a burden to have to live in such a dreadful place as Britain.
Couldn't you find somewhere better and more fair, more societally balanced, like Cuba, or Belarus, or N Korea?
Do try, please!
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I'm sure the Wave Knight is capable of throwing a decent cocktail party.. Just rig an awning over the Helipad, some tables and chairs and a bar! Shiver my timbers, it's not that difficult!
If the Royal Family want a new Royal Yacht; I'm sure they could afford one! I'll even contribute to a fund if necessary. As long as I get an invite!
If the Royal Family want a new Royal Yacht; I'm sure they could afford one! I'll even contribute to a fund if necessary. As long as I get an invite!
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Perhaps a Charter could be arranged with Sir Philip Green?
Alternatively, a local port is well endowed with eastern and middle eastern floating pleasure palaces. Anyone of which would make a very grand Royal Yacht and if the right one was appropriated and the cultural bling gutted out of it, it might have the de rigeur DAS and "ancillary" equipment.
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I would rather his bucket be confiscated and sold off to fund some of the pensions of the employees who have had their retirement prospects wiped out.
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Indeed it does, but the thread you started has fook all to do with mil aviation and is yet another example of the pointless triv that largely fills this forum and makes it less and less relevant to the few serving members left!
I now await the witty "don't like it, don't read it posts"...
it has a helipad
I now await the witty "don't like it, don't read it posts"...
mil aviation relevance ?
Mil aviation relevance ?
As well as bing a cushy ship, Wave Knight also has a Lynx Mk 8 which must be jolly useful for runs ashore and they can probably arrange a bit of rough shooting too, if one should get bored at sea between port visits, viz: Royal Marines sniper brings six-hour drugs chase to end as Wave Knight delivers £40m blow to traffickers | Royal Navy
Perhaps a word of caution for her Lynx pilot - if their ex-hooligan VIP should be heard to mutter “Hello sailor, I nose a bit about hicopleters, can I ‘ave a go ?” he might be well-advised not to let him anywhere near the controls, to ensure they don’t have to send for another one.
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As well as bing a cushy ship, Wave Knight also has a Lynx Mk 8 which must be jolly useful for runs ashore and they can probably arrange a bit of rough shooting too, if one should get bored at sea between port visits, viz: Royal Marines sniper brings six-hour drugs chase to end as Wave Knight delivers £40m blow to traffickers | Royal Navy
Perhaps a word of caution for her Lynx pilot - if their ex-hooligan VIP should be heard to mutter “Hello sailor, I nose a bit about hicopleters, can I ‘ave a go ?” he might be well-advised not to let him anywhere near the controls, to ensure they don’t have to send for another one.
LFH
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PDR I was talking past tense.
Well you have to go a long way back into the past - back to the Maxwell incident in fact.
Philip Green didn't raid the pension fund - he may have been less than generous in putting new money in, but he didn't help himself to anything that was in there. In this regard the BHS pension fund is only one of the more extreme cases of the fall-out of the change in pension accounting rules back in something like 2003, which exposed previously unrecognised shortfalls in pension funds.
Before that you can go back to the tory governments of the Thatcher and Major era which actually forced companies to take "pension holidays" because they thought they were using the pension funds as tax-shelters for profits.
Then there was Gordon Brown's tax raid on pension funds in 1997. The combination of the two created these unsuspected unadequacies in pension funds. By the time tit was realised we'd moved out of prosperous times and most companies literally couldn't afford to make-good the shortfall in any rapid timescale. In order to do that we need to return to an economy with higher growth, producing higher investment returns so that the funds can pay their liabilities from investment earnings rather than capital.
The "credit crunch" kinda put the kibosh on that, and this stupid Brexit malarky is likely to destreoy any remaining probability of addressing it this side of hell freezing over.
People will just have to accept the consequences of their decisions.
Here endeth the sermon!
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Philip Green didn't raid the pension fund - he may have been less than generous in putting new money in, but he didn't help himself to anything that was in there. In this regard the BHS pension fund is only one of the more extreme cases of the fall-out of the change in pension accounting rules back in something like 2003, which exposed previously unrecognised shortfalls in pension funds.
Before that you can go back to the tory governments of the Thatcher and Major era which actually forced companies to take "pension holidays" because they thought they were using the pension funds as tax-shelters for profits.
Then there was Gordon Brown's tax raid on pension funds in 1997. The combination of the two created these unsuspected unadequacies in pension funds. By the time tit was realised we'd moved out of prosperous times and most companies literally couldn't afford to make-good the shortfall in any rapid timescale. In order to do that we need to return to an economy with higher growth, producing higher investment returns so that the funds can pay their liabilities from investment earnings rather than capital.
The "credit crunch" kinda put the kibosh on that, and this stupid Brexit malarky is likely to destreoy any remaining probability of addressing it this side of hell freezing over.
People will just have to accept the consequences of their decisions.
Here endeth the sermon!
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Give it a couple of years and he can have a aircraft carrier, minus the aircraft 😜
Now he could throw a heck of a party on that ,
In all seriousness we probably should have a royal yacht , IF it's to benefit UK industry,maybe the should either pay for it or at least contibute a sizeable amount.
BAE etc,has made a lot cash out MOD maybe time to give a little back as a investment in there own future.
Now he could throw a heck of a party on that ,
In all seriousness we probably should have a royal yacht , IF it's to benefit UK industry,maybe the should either pay for it or at least contibute a sizeable amount.
BAE etc,has made a lot cash out MOD maybe time to give a little back as a investment in there own future.
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Hence the post. If some of us didn't post anything, it would soon become a dull place, simply consisting of the cap comp.
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Sorry fallmonk I now disagree. Think they missed the boat by about 13 odd years. We talked about this as a crew at that time, we that then served RN. In fact in "The Officer" magazine it was well laid out how it could be done.
Times move on. We haven't the RN paid staff, and I don't think the public taxpaying voter would wear the cost. In my drink I thought it could maybe still do it if RN trained SME took charge of young British kids as some sort of training ship with a spin off with transporting the Royal Family....
Its not going to happen. No of us really deserve it... least the Royal Family, less even the RN. The country is in a different place and moving into a new time, even I see it.
Apologies for the bile. Age, drink and at times anger make me so.
Times move on. We haven't the RN paid staff, and I don't think the public taxpaying voter would wear the cost. In my drink I thought it could maybe still do it if RN trained SME took charge of young British kids as some sort of training ship with a spin off with transporting the Royal Family....
Its not going to happen. No of us really deserve it... least the Royal Family, less even the RN. The country is in a different place and moving into a new time, even I see it.
Apologies for the bile. Age, drink and at times anger make me so.
