Tony Hardwick 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🏏 🦌🀄︎ 🏳️🌈
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🇳🇴Norway has decided to further increase its defence spending by 115 NOK (c£8.9Bn) to 3.5% GDP by 2035. This guarantees funding of 5 or 6 Type 26 frigates as well as 6 Type 212CD submarines.
RAF Fairford is now base for "one of the largest US bomber deployments in recent history." This week's arrivals bring the number of bombers stationed there to 21. The 15 B-1s are well over half the total available. When Trump talks of obliterating Iran, he means *from the UK.*
As Kemi Badenoch rages at Labour lies. Another example of Tory hypocrisy. Boris Johnson, when asked questions at the #CovidInquiry, "I can't recall." Rishi Sunak, when asked questions at the Covid Inquiry, "I can't recall." #BBCBreakfast #CovidInquiry
The current state of the Royal Navy: 2 aircraft carriers — neither operational. 6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus). 7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational 5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?). Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged. Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy. Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.
