Nick

Its the 3rd Christmas since you left us Jussie, but it still feels like the first. You will always have your own Christmas tree. I miss you, love Dad xx

North Sea Oil is critical to UK industry. Super critical to Defence. North sea oil is still there and it’s economic to bring it home. Its being taxed at 78% which is why production has declined. We can learn from Norway on this..

Why is this government belatedly getting excited about the importance of opening up the Strait of Hormuz in order to have access to fuel from abroad, but appears stupidly & ideologically opposed to extracting our own from the North Sea?

Labour tells us wasting billions on Ukraine protects us from Putin, but it can’t defend our towns from rapists who throw their passports into the Channel and land on the beach, or RAF Akrotiri from the IRGC. Fat chance of Labour being able to stop this. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/0…

@kateferguson4 This government is adept at saying what they think you want to hear & equally adept at making sure that none of it will happen if it doesn't fit with their shadow & secret ideology. Defence spending certainly doesn't fit & they will order zero new ships, boats or planes

John Healey makes the case for Britain to spend more on defence. Says "hard power" is the currency of the day. Adds: "In the face of rising demands on defence, the Prime Minister has said we must do more and spend more. "That is what we are doing."

@kateferguson4 Breaking News. Healey has cut £2.6 billion from [in year] MOD operational processes. The DIP is 9 months overdue.

Why don't you open the North Sea, @Keir_Starmer? You have no business in Saudi Arabia demanding the flow of energy, when your own SoS for Energy "Security" and Net Zero is busy cutting us off at the knees.

@skisidjames @ArmchairAdml Where was the nuclear deterrent cost prior to 2015? Both places I have looked suggest it has always been within the MoD, and on this occasion, I hope you are right 🙏

@TightToffee @ArmchairAdml Nuclear deterrent was previously funded separately, it was brought into the MOD budget in 2015, and military pensions were counted in defence spending in 2016, enabling the UK to claim it was spending 2% of GDP on defence overall figures.

Worth remembering: we didn’t used to count the nuclear deterrent or military pensions in defence spending. Strip those out today and we’re not at 2.5% of GDP — we’re closer to ~1.8% on actual conventional forces. That’s why we no longer have sufficient ships, tanks and planes..

The RFA deserve everything they are asking for and more. They must be considered as one of the FOUR arms of the armed forces Royal Fleet Auxiliary seafarers walk out over pay share.google/bzgZyMGXexIgIG…

Will Type 83 destroyers be in service when the last Type 45 is paid off in 2038. Will build start in time with frigate HMS GLASGOW taking 9 years plus. They are to play a key role in the Future Air Dominance System against emerging threats @navalnewscom youtu.be/7OFJXfoOsyk?si…

Vile demonic man Destroying beautiful countryside Prime arable land Killing swathes of flora and fauna - all that life and bio diversity Miliband and his ilk are enemies of beauty , life and food production

People like this are calling you “far-right”. I’m happy to be on the opposite side of whatever this is.

'Ed Miliband is a dangerously deluded individual.' Director of Net Zero Watch Andrew Montford has hit out at Ed Miliband and branded blocks over North Sea drilling as 'madness'. Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com/friend

BBC correspondent Jeremy Bowen pretends to be under Russian artillery fire when an elderly Ukrainian woman walking her dog checks to see if he's okay. The BBC has always been fake news.

There's something really pathetic about European 'leaders' flying out to the Gulf in an effort to be relevant.

A vandal, not only destroying our economy, but our countryside too

A word of warning to those pining for the EU. Spain tried to help its citizens by temporarily reducing VAT on fuel from 21% to 10% - but the EU has told them that it is illegal, as it is the EU who controls the laws, not the Spanish government. theolivepress.es/spain-news/202…

“It would be economic illiteracy on steroids if the government were to choose not to seize a £17 billion investment opportunity" say industry sources, as Rachel Reeves is accused of blocking investment in the North Sea after she shelved plans to scrap a windfall tax on oil and gas. Britain said no to more than a billion barrels of oil and gas by the end of the decade. #CostOfNetZero

@GiftCee I would rather have Hissing Sid as PM before Polanski (which isn't even his real name)

Hypothetically, the race is between (a) Zack Polanski (b) Kemi Badenoch. Who gets your vote?

@CDP1882 The real sin is that she had to go to port in order to resupply (and just took advantage of the time to fix a minor fault) because we have no (zero) fleet solid support ships after RFA Victoria was put in longterm layup long before a replacement was even ordered

Too many people risk unnecessarily talking down the armed forces in their attacks on the government. HMS Dragon is in port fixing a fault, but that's not the sailors' fault, who made miracles rushing the ship out to sea. The blame for poor preparedness lies with ministers.

This is why British forces will have to be bristling with lethality. Anti-ship missiles on every RN warship, every RAF aircraft, plus ground-based launchers. SSKs to pose threat where costly SSNs can’t always be. Air defence and land attack capabilities on everything. 1/3