Andrew Neil
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@afneil
Columnist for Daily Mail UK and MailOnline USA. @TimesRadio anchor. Former Chairman of The Spectator, Editor Sunday Times, BBC TV anchor, Chairman Sky TV
I actually don’t understand how France has 69 million people. Where are they? 5 largest cities: Paris 2 million Marseille 0.8MM Lyon 0.5MM Toulouse 0.5Mm Nice 0.3MM Where are they all hiding? In the countryside? The “big” cities are so tiny.
@afneil Sorry did not know when you moved to Mail. If you were pro-European before 2021 a double apology. And delighted you join me in years of calling for European defence. Hast du Deutsch endlich gelarnt? Btw insults never work with me and are unworthy of you, old friend
@afneil My man you deny you were chairman of The Spectator who supported brexit??
@afneil Please list all your articles this century supporting partnership with fellow European nations. Of course you never marched with Farage or Johnson but your relentless attacks on Europe in Mail etc helped fuel Brexit vote.
Man that is some laundry fire... USS Ford a $13 billion nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, retreated from the world’s most important naval theatre and sailed to Crete… because of a laundry fire. The IRGC had named it a target, tracked it and watched it leave and the official explanation from USN for that scorched, mangled hull is that someone forgot to clean the lint trap. Or just maybe... Ahem... It wasn't a laundry fire. The most expensive glorified battleship in human history, reduced to a charred museum of a bygone WWIII era.
@afneil What about warships in the channel
@afneil You seem well angry..
Interesting to see suddenly how all these Brexiteers, who went on so much about "sovereignty" are now realising the UK not only ... doesn't have its independent nuclear deterrent ↙️(contrary to🇫🇷) but is also basically defenceless against ballistic missiles↘️(contrary to most of the EU which is much better protected - like🇫🇷and🇩🇪 with Patriot and SAMP/T) Defending your country against attack - 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 would seem to be sovereignty that actually matters. They were so busy moaning about yoghurt additives, they forgot not only to talk (even know ?) about this, but more importantly regarding the Brexiteers in power, to actually 𝒅𝒐 anything about it
@afneil @nats_tired We don’t need one. We have layered defences in cooperation with Europe and Turkey.
Like so many ministers in the Starmer government (maybe most) this minister — Steve Reed — has no idea what he’s talking about and is totally out of his depth. Which, when the matter is national security, is rather serious.
@afneil Andrew you wrong.Steve is right .what matters is if the UK has the capability to intercept missiles. It doesn't matter who has long range missiles .Israel ,US ,Turkey , Zimbabwe has long range missiles.if any of them send them to UK we will intercept them
‘People will conclude from your lack of answer that they can hit us…’ @Lewis_Goodall presses Labour’s Steve Reed on the likelihood of an Iranian missile attack on British soil.
@afneil I read earlier that Germany is buying Iron Done from Israel…
@afneil A credible academic paper in 2025 estimated that Brexit reduced the level of UK GDP by around 6–8%. Not an absolute fall in GDP, but a cumulative, gradual shortfall in economic growth compared to what it would have been if the UK had remained in the EU.
