New Defence Review, higher or lower?
If its the sort of conventional threat that we've considered for some decades, you still don't use a patrol boat.
If it's the sort of threat that appears to have been used in the Baltic - and indeed is often referenced wrt subsea cables, you don't stop that with a patrol boat either.
If it's the sort of threat that appears to have been used in the Baltic - and indeed is often referenced wrt subsea cables, you don't stop that with a patrol boat either.
I see the Govt are already looking for "efficiency savings" in all departments
The way things are going they'll be selling the QE to the Aussies for hard cash soon
Interesting that benefits will rise in line with earnings (or so they plan) not inflation - probably the same for the armed services budgets I'd guess
A quick glance over the top of the parapet again - well you prophets of doom have you noticed the Ł/USD rate this morning? I am no expert but I said to my wife a week ago 'I bet the Ł will be back in a week's time'.
Finningley Boy,
With the gigantic mess that Truss and her Chancellor are making of the UK economy, you will be lucky if the size of the reduction in defence
spending that this incompetent shower will announce along with all other public sector and Whitehall cuts on Nov 23rd is less than 5%.
Remember, all that Truss has promised on Defence spending is that by 2030 it will be 3% of GDP.
Truss will be gone WAY before 2030!
Letters of no confidence are already being submitted to the 1922 Committee.
With the gigantic mess that Truss and her Chancellor are making of the UK economy, you will be lucky if the size of the reduction in defence
spending that this incompetent shower will announce along with all other public sector and Whitehall cuts on Nov 23rd is less than 5%.
Remember, all that Truss has promised on Defence spending is that by 2030 it will be 3% of GDP.
Truss will be gone WAY before 2030!
Letters of no confidence are already being submitted to the 1922 Committee.
The Royal yacht of course which seems to have disappeared from view.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans...ional+flagship
Not sure how useful you think the F-35 is in protecting oil and gas facilities, but it hasn't stopped the Norwegians sending a couple....
https://twitter.com/Forsvarsdep/stat...69276262584322
https://twitter.com/Forsvarsdep/stat...69276262584322
Not sure what point you're trying to make?
The point I'm making is that you need the gamut of capabilities to conduct a viable national defence, and just because a certain item of equipment may not have been designed for a specific purpose (OPVs and F-35s to protect oil and gas facilities, for example) that doesn't mean they don't have a place. Not rocket science.
The point I'm making is that you need the gamut of capabilities to conduct a viable national defence, and just because a certain item of equipment may not have been designed for a specific purpose (OPVs and F-35s to protect oil and gas facilities, for example) that doesn't mean they don't have a place. Not rocket science.
The problem won't be what sort of assets we have - it'll be the sum total given the way they are talking about cut-backs. The best we can hope for is that they hold the current line on expenditure and the "increase" is kicked down the road until "2030 -ish"
Astounding really.................... especially with a full scale war going on at the other end of Europe
Astounding really.................... especially with a full scale war going on at the other end of Europe
We are constantly being told that we need more diversity in the higher echelons of power. Well we have managed that in fine style by pushing all those dastardly white males out of the corridors of power. Yet now we seem to be suggesting that this ethnically and gender diverse cabinet has made a bit of a cock up with the nations finances. I was led to believe that greater diversity brings with it greater achievements. Am I allowed to criticise them or am I then a racist/misogynist/bigot?
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You might as well add the following descriptors to that list
“….An aged WASPish dinosaurian oxygen thief” 😉
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