Sometimes you just cannot win, Boris inspects P8

[Two's in]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Photo Op = PM travelling around the country getting cheesy shots of himself looking nowhere near as powerful or credible as Putin

Classified Briefing = senior military officer travelling to No10 to give cabinet or senior ministers capability brief.

If he doesn't know the capabilities of his armed forces already, what is he doing posturing on the world stage making veiled threats to Vlad?

At the risk of agreeing with Crab and CJ, this was a purely political photo stunt to deflect some media coverage from his Oddbins crisis. That's all fine, you get to do that as PM, but don't pretend it was something it was clearly not. As Crab says above, capability briefings are conducted by the appropriate personnel in the appropriate location, not wandering around the pan looking at a shiny jet. To paraphrase that cartoon with the wide-eyed boy being shown the cockpit of an airliner "Look at all those knobs...".

[NutLoose]

Please give it a rest, we all know your obsession with Boris Johnson, but this belongs in jetblast not in here.

[The Helpful Stacker]

Originally Posted by Saintsman

Best Boris finds out as much as he can about the P8’s capabilities. We are likely to need them.

To quote something said earlier...

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Photo Op = PM travelling around the country getting cheesy shots of himself looking nowhere near as powerful or credible as Putin.

Classified Briefing = senior military officer travelling to No10 to give cabinet or senior ministers capability brief.

If he doesn't know the capabilities of his armed forces already, what is he doing posturing on the world stage making veiled threats to Vlad?