Andrew Brimson

@afneil The state of our Navy is not desirable at all, that said, now is the time to look at what the Royal Navy needs to be for the next twenty years. Fortunately we don’t have much baggage to rid ourselves of and are in a great position to build the Navy of the future.

A country with a Navy which once ruled the seas now effectively doesn’t have a Navy it can deploy at a time of crisis. We have no ships in the Mediterranean and no ships in the Gulf. It is a national scandal. Both Labour and the Tories are culpable.

@NationalHways @kaihendry The safest and most efficient motorways are the ones you don’t have such control over. The over management and generally incorrect signage causes accidents and creates congestion.

@kaihendry Hello. There are several reasons why speed limits may be lowered temporarily. This includes traffic congestion (actual or likely), roadworks, our traffic officers working in vulnerable locations, extreme weather conditions and incidents. See here for more: nationalhighways.co.uk/road-safety/va…

Is this true @NationalHways ?! youtu.be/oXOmVwKzINU?si…

@hmtreasury Barely a month since this post and the economy is tanking faster than ever. Can you give us a fresh update ? The only way out of this doom cycle is to cut taxes, motivate business, investment and allow growth.

Delivering economic growth will mean we can fix our NHS hospitals, invest in schools and raise living standards with more money in people's pockets. We will deliver a milestone of higher living standards in every part of the UK by the end of the Parliament. Find out more 👇

@HighwaysSEAST Wow - would you claim this is efficient management of a critical Road infrastructure? Why does it take you so long to respond to any incident ?

The #M25 remains closed anti-clockwise between J9 #LeatherHead and J8 #Reigate. 1 (of 4) lanes are closed clockwise between J8 #Reigate and J9 #LeatherHead Emergency works are currently in place. Please allow extra time for your journey.

Traffic has been STOPPED on the #M25 anti-clockwise between J9 (#Leatherhead) and J8 (#Reigate) due to collision. We will keep you updated.

@hmtreasury To be fair Sunak just gave a floor busting response to the lies this government and the treasury are sharing. Economic growth will be stunted considerably by this budget.

@TravellinTrukka @HighwaysSEAST If you watch the video closely it looks like the lorry drifted across the hatched lines and struck the concrete barrier, causing the explosion. I’m glad the driver is safe but I hope there is a full investigation to the cause of the accident and the time to reopen the m25

@HighwaysSEAST I’ve just seen the video of it basically exploding. I hope the driver got out ok and nobody got caught up in it🙏🏻

#M25 #Surrey closed clockwise between J5 #Sevenoaks & J6 #Godstone /#Caterham due to a serious heavy goods vehicle fire. Traffic is also stopped on the anti-clockwise carriageway between J6 & J5. This has also closed the #M26 westbound between J2A and M25/A21. More to follow.

@hmtreasury We have a chancellor who has absolutely zero idea about investment, business or employment. Her idea about investment is investing our money from additional taxes into broken government and more inept quango’s / vehicles. This is not a pro business government.

The UK is a great home for international investment, with some of the globe's top universities, a billion dollar tech sector & more unicorn companies than Sweden & Germany combined. Watch the Chancellor's speech from the summit today to find out more. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@BornFreeFDN Fully support this initiative, there also appears to have been rather a cavalier attitude to unnecessary procedures.

We acknowledge that this must be a very difficult time for anyone who has worked closely with the elephants, but it is time for Chester Zoo and the other nine UK zoos which continue to keep elephants to change. Enough is enough. (2/5)

Chester Zoo has announced that Asian elephant Riva Hi Way has died at the age of four - the second elephant to die at the zoo in a month. More on this in our latest article 👇(1/5) bornfree.org.uk/news/second-el…

@SkyNews This significant failure should have been picked up by QA and limited testing, for such a failure to intentionally deliver to millions of endpoints is chronic negligence or a highly placed bad actor. There is no evidence this is or isn’t due to a cyber attack, either is bad

The CEO CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, said "we're deeply sorry for the impact we've caused" and explains the issues were caused by a single faulty content update. His apology comes as businesses across the world have been affected by a mass IT outage. trib.al/NsHPkWp

@George_Kurtz @CrowdStrike Interesting comment from the CEO, my take is that this is a security incident as bad code was shared. #Crowdstrike QA should never have let this code update pass, either lax quality control or a bad actor added / changed code. Either way, Crowdstrike may collapse.

Today was not a security or cyber incident. Our customers remain fully protected. We understand the gravity of the situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption. We are working with all impacted customers to ensure that systems are back up and they can deliver the services their customers are counting on. As noted earlier, the issue has been identified and a fix has been deployed. There was an issue with a Falcon content update for Windows Hosts. For the latest information that we will continuously update, please refer to the CrowdStrike website (crowdstrike.com/blog/statement…), my posts on LinkedIn, and my posts on X.  I will continue to provide updates to our community and the industry as they become available.

@cmackinlay @UKHouseofLords @RishiSunak Fantastic news, well deserved and congratulations 🥳

I am overwhelmed at being elevated to @UKHouseofLords. My heartfelt thanks to @RishiSunak for my inclusion on the dissolution Honours List. This gives me a platform to campaign for #sepsis #limbloss and for appropriate #prosthetics (as well as sensible #NetZero). The Bionic MP changes into the Bionic Lord.

@cmackinlay The country has lost a very committed MP, your health and family must come first and wishing you success in your future endeavours.

The snap election announcement has caused me 36 hrs of intense soul searching.   Whilst my heart tells me to stand again, there being so much unfinished business across local regeneration and national issues which are important to me, my head knows this to be impossible at this time. It would be difficult to withstand the rigours of an all-out election campaign, a campaign that I’d always wish to lead from the front. Thereafter, upon being re-elected it would be difficult for me to sustain 70 to 80 hour working weeks which were the norm prior to my illness.    I had hoped to phase my return to the House of Commons over the coming months as my abilities improved. Since leaving in-patient rehabilitation a month ago my life now revolves around various medical appointments. I face numerous future operations as a result of the serious sepsis that I suffered which very nearly took my life. I have only just started the prosthetic journey and I have weekly physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions.    I had the most memorable appearance of my time as an MP at this week’s PMQs: it was emotional and the experience quite surreal. I shall never forget it. I had expected it to be the start of my return. It will, however, be remembered as my last hurrah.   I will now campaign to raise awareness for, and particularly the early recognition of, the onset of sepsis. If this results in the saving of one life or the prevention of the type of disablement that I have suffered it will be a worthwhile campaign. I will also do all that I can to ensure that multiple limb loss amputees get the right prosthetics at the right time to ensure that lives can return to as close to normality as possible.   To be elected to the House of Commons is a rare privilege of life.  I thank my South Thanet constituents for placing their trust in me across three General Elections.

@HighwaysSEAST Is there any eta on this reopening? Thank you

Traffic remains stopped on the #M25 clockwise within J3 #Swanley due to a vehicle fire. Lane 3 (of 3) is also closed on the anti-clockwise carriageway within J3. Long delays remain on approach, please allow extra time time for your journey. Thank you for your patience.

Traffic is stopped on the #M25 clockwise within #J3 #Swanley due to a vehicle fire. Delays are building on approach, please allow extra time time for your journey. Thank you for your patience.

@SGSportCoaching @ClusterView Great interview Steve, interesting story.

Here’s a short interview by @ClusterView huge thanks to Mark Antony and the young coach Jack garner! Talking all things football youtu.be/cjImU4rg1A4?si… #interview #reflection #Football2024 #clusterview #somethingnew

@Barclays - had an ATM swallow my card during a power cut in South Africa. Used the app to report it lost and had a virtual replacement card all within 10 mins. Excellent 👌

@hmtreasury @Jeremy_Hunt Total tosh - The UK is being strangled by incompetent government, high taxes, high interest rates, excessive benefit payments. The NHS is virtually collapsed, Policing is scarce, law and order becoming a major issue.

“High inflation is the single greatest barrier to economic growth. The best way to sustainably grow our economy right now is to stick to our plan & knock inflation on the head." Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt responds to today’s GDP statistics.

@cmackinlay Shocking how quickly that occurred, wishing you make a full recovery as soon as your body allows.

On Thursday 28 September I was rushed into hospital with the potential for sepsis. This was indeed correct and I was placed into an induced coma with multiple organ failures. Treatment has been exemplary by all NHS staff and I can’t thank them enough. I am now on a slow road to recovery with services to constituents maintained by my East Kent and London offices.

@ElectoralCommUK @ShepherdWales @SaulMahoney Following the 10 months it has taken you to “secure” your site, can you expand on this sophisticated attack please ? What mechanism was used to be undetected? Was this a zero day attack on your systems or a known method ?

@ShepherdWales @SaulMahoney The attack used a sophisticated infiltration method, intended to evade our checks. While it is the nature of some cyber-attacks to seek to go undetected, we regret that it took so long to detect. We’ve made improvements to detection and monitoring of our networks.

Today we announced that we have been the subject of a complex cyber-attack, and our systems were accessed by hostile actors.

Well not all of us @VodafoneUK your staff erroneously disconnected a number of our company phones on Friday, no one available to support business accounts until Monday ? Shabby support and poor service

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