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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@LUDENClassics I often follow a Kia Sportage home with the reg 765 BMW. Appreciate these never been a 765 but I like to think the driver is aspirational 😂
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LUDEN Automotive@LUDENClassics·
Saw a car with the reg B199LES this morning, but I just can't imagine that Biggles would drive a Kia Sportage after a career in Sopwith Camels.
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
We have no one to blame but ourselves. That’s not actually true. I’m a massive fan of oil and I want us to drill baby drill. On land and on sea. I blame all those soft headed wankers who keep voting for morons, and I blame politicians who pander to the soft headed morons.
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The Forties Pipeline System (FPS) This is the pipeline system that carries most of the oil from the North Sea to the UK. It collects the oil from 85 different North Sea oilfields, and flows around 550,000 barrels of oil per day back to the UK mainland. For context, in total the North Sea has around 400 offshore platforms between the UK and Norway, producing and exporting both oil and gas. FPS is a British oil pipeline system. Exploration drilling for North Sea oil is currently banned on the UK Continental Shelf. It has been since the current government came to power. As a result of the drilling ban, the Forties Pipeline System is currently uninvestable according to its owner INEOS. They haven’t invested in its upkeep for 2 years. INEOS have said the pipeline will close by 2035, but without investment maybe as early as 2030, which is now just 3.5 years away. 550,000 barrels / day is equivalent to 38.96 GW of primary energy. This is 10x more energy than the UK’s new Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, which is projected to cost £48 billion for 3.2GW of electrical power. Electrical energy is joule for joule more valuable than chemical energy, but the comparison of scale is real. 38.9 GW is more energy than the entire National Grid carries. The largest energy system in the UK is not the grid it is this underwater pipeline system. With drilling banned, and the North Sea entering a period of forced closure, the Forties Pipeline System is going to close in the not too distant future. Once the pipeline is no longer economical, the entire Central North Sea oil production will collapse with it. This isn’t something that closes down gracefully, the entire Central North Sea basin reaches market through a single pipe. BP recently announced they are selling up their remaining assets and getting out, Exxon, Chevron, etc are all already long gone. Nobody wants their brand near this collapse. The tax rate is 78%, the government wants this national infrastructure to shut down. It will. The German Chancellor recently called their nuclear fleet closure a “Strategic Blunder”, interesting choice of words. But I think it was obviously a blunder to anyone outside their propaganda bubble. Likewise the UK’s North Sea. The German nuclear fleet averaged 10.3 GW of primary energy output over its operational life, which is around 1/4 the primary energy of the Forties Pipeline System. The UK has a few other pipeline systems but this one is by far the largest and the most critical. Now this infrastructure, isn’t supposed to last forever. But when it goes you should have a plan. In the UK nobody talks about this. It’s taboo. A lot of people think “yeah but they won’t let that happen”… well it happened in Germany, and it happened in Japan. A lot of people want it to happen, and a lot of those people are in politics. So what replaces this? Nothing? Is the UK just going to go silently into the night?

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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@JChimirie66677 1997 was a major turning point in the emasculation of the British state. Government but also wider society moved very deliberately into a submissive posture globally whilst cranking up control of its citizens, who cheered it on. That is why we find ourselves here.
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Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧@JChimirie66677·
Britain Is Under Attack on Multiple Fronts. The Government Cannot Respond. Here Is Why. Keir Starmer wrote the preface to his own Strategic Defence Review. His first duty as Prime Minister, he declared, is to keep the British people safe. Lord Robertson, the man Starmer appointed to conduct that review, has now said publicly that he is failing that first duty. We are under-prepared. We are under-insured. We are under attack. We are not safe. Those are not the words of an opposition politician. They are the words of the government's own reviewer, driven to break cover because the investment plan his review recommended was left on the shelf. Tom Tugendhat's assessment at Policy Exchange this week completed the picture. No integrated short range air defence protecting critical national infrastructure. No contracts or budgets to repair airfields if damaged or destroyed. Undersea cables carrying the vast majority of intercontinental data being systematically surveyed by Russian naval vessels. No NHS mass casualty plan. The Cold War infrastructure that provided one was dismantled in the late 1990s on the assumption it would never be needed. We now find ourselves in a world where it is needed and the infrastructure is gone. Charles Moore writing in the Telegraph is right that Britain has rarely faced greater danger and that our leaders remain woefully complacent. Where his analysis needs to go further is in explaining why. The complacency is not accidental. The paralysis has a cause. A government that cannot proscribe the IRGC because it fears the electoral consequences in specific constituencies cannot make the defence decisions Robertson recommended for the same reason. A government that dare not define the Islamist threat because it fears for its Muslim vote cannot enforce a single standard of policing, cannot name the grooming gang demographic, cannot stop the marches that built the permission structure for five attacks on the Jewish community of north London in six weeks. The domestic political constraint and the strategic defence failure share the same root. Electoral demography has made this government structurally incapable of acting in the national interest on either front simultaneously. Robertson described corrosive complacency. The more precise diagnosis is structural paralysis. The coalition that brought Labour to power in 2024 includes constituencies whose priorities are in direct conflict with the national interest on immigration, on Islamism, on Iran and on defence spending. Every decision that would make Britain safer carries a domestic political cost that the coalition will not bear. So the decisions do not get made. The SDR sits on the shelf. The IRGC remains unproscribed. The threat level rises to severe. And the Prime Minister visits Golders Green two days after elderly Jewish men were stabbed in the face outside their synagogue and calls it appalling. Russia is probing undersea cables and airspace. China is infiltrating higher education and infrastructure systems. Iran is directing proxy attacks on British streets and conducting assassination attempts against British citizens. The Islamist recruitment pool grows with every year of uncontrolled immigration from states whose official ideologies include eliminationist antisemitism and a hatred of the West. All of this is documented, assessed and known. The intelligence picture is not the problem. Lord Robertson used the words under attack. He is right. Britain is under attack on multiple fronts simultaneously, external and internal, strategic and civic. The government that should be responding to that attack cannot do so because the electoral coalition that keeps it in power will not allow it. A nation whose government cannot act in its own national interest because of who it depends on for votes is not a nation under complacent leadership. It is a nation under captured leadership. And that is a harder problem to solve than buying more missiles.
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@Jack_Watling @LaurenceT1942 @RUSI_org Leathality within 150m Doesn’t matter how good the platform is if the soldier cannot use it effectively Unless DIO invests in range infrastructure & SASC adopt real dynamic shooting practices, then you might as well give the troops sticks Live fire practice matters. Shoot More
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@_JesseCinco I’m fascinated by this skills house/range set up. It’s genius. Indoor/outdoor so no mechanical ventilation needed. Ballistic partition walls - could be configured to bays for civ pop target shooting. Use of mobile bullet traps for primary containment and maximum flexibility. 💪
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Jesse Cinco@_JesseCinco·
POV: Dying in every room and developing really bad habits that WOULD NEVER translate to using a gun
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@MilosParrots The SP01 is a slightly more refined CZ75. The Shadow 2 is an entirely different beast, particularly the Orange
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Portable Parrot MBA@MilosParrots·
@BritGuns My list involve guns I have personally owned, shot and worked on. I have no experience with the newer CZ pistols so I cannot offer an honest opinion of them.
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Portable Parrot MBA@MilosParrots·
"Milo. What are the BEST handguns of the last 100 years?" Me- 1911A1-1927 Walther PP-1929 FN P35-1935 Walther P38-P5=1938 CZ75-1975 Beretta 92-1978 Glock P80/G17-1980 H&K USP-1990 And no. S&W semiauto pistols don't make it into my list.
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@KathrynPorter26 I’ve just learnt about ‘peaking plants’ and how these gas power plants pick up the slack when demand is at peak. Considering current UK energy policy madness, are more of these not viable short/medium term option until SMRs come online?
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@BenStoeger187 At least these goons are willing to pay you. I had 6yrs of that shit running the National Governing Body as an unpaid volunteer 🙄🔫
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Ben Stoeger@BenStoeger187·
Not everyone can be an astronaut
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@prestonjbyrne when you’ve solved UK free speech issues and feel comfortable returning to the UK, perhaps you could help us reform firearms licensing!
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@PeterMcCormack @prestonjbyrne Super interesting to hear about Preston’s work on UK 1st Amendment style legislation You touched on 2nd Amendment & I fully agree, no appetite or even need for this in UK. However, exploring UK gun control is an interesting topic as it tracks our decent into a low trust society
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"You're not a free country until you get your rights back." @prestonjbyrne is the only American lawyer fighting Britain's attempt to censor US companies under the Online Safety Act. He's representing 4chan, Kiwi Farms, Gab and SaSu to defend the 1st amendment. Full episode 👇
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British Racing Guns@BritGuns·
@_JesseCinco I just want to know more about the construction of those shoot house walls. Such an awesome facility
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Jesse Cinco@_JesseCinco·
More rifle marksmanship training footage…. Let’s see how many CQB “experts” come out of the woodworks…. 😂
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フユト🐗@fuyuto64·
「俺銃オタとして一番の好物何だろ」って考えて「実戦部隊での珍しい銃やアクセサリの運用」だろうなって思った ①カスタムされたFNHPを使うSAS ②シングルポイントサイトを載せたベレッタSC70を使う南アフリカ軍 ③M203付きAKMを使うIDF ④M60のグリップ付きM14を持つSOG隊員 ここらへん特に好き
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@Remnantize Note the empty P-mag. Great having new fancy guns but somewhat pointless as they aren’t given any real range time.
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British Army Ranger Regiment
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