@BenGrahamUK The decisions of electorate a decade ago should no more bind the the current electorate than the decisions of a previous parliament binds the current parliament.
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Britain voted to leave the EU in 2016.
Democracy means respecting that choice, even if Sadiq Khan doesn't like it.
Calls to reverse the referendum ignore the will of the people.
City A.M.@CityAM
Sadiq Khan urges Labour to back return to EU bit.ly/3PjCPDd
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My response to JMS:
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J. Michael Straczynski went on a completely unhinged rant, accusing @RAZ0RFIST and me of libel because of Babylon 5.
Will have more on this later today!
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@straczynski @RAZ0RFIST Isn't this not dissimilar to the franchising model that fast-food chains and the like have been using for years?
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@RAZ0RFIST Again you twist the facts. PTEN was a loose pre-existing affiliation of independent stations which were already supplied by WB/Paramount and would have been the backbone of the co-venture. The WB was an actual new network that required FCC approval.
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@BGatesIsaPyscho How would tapping the relatively meagre reserves left in the UK fields that would take the best part of a decade to extract make a difference to people today?
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🚨🇬🇧 NO UK NEW DRILLING LICENSES
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband says granting licences to drill an abundance of high-quality oil on the doorstep in the North Sea wouldn't make a difference to people.
Instead, the UK continue to buy oil from Norway who extracted out of the same North Sea.
These people are truly insane - the fallout from the Middle East WILL be huge. Just like Germany Britain will be brought to its knees, through an entirely deliberately manufactured energy crisis.
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@ModernNavy @DailyMail If France were to seize Jersey, it wouldn't be the RN that the UK would be looking toward to respond. Both Jersey and Paris are well within range of RAF bases.
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Nowadays, if the French were minded to seize Jersey, the challenge of finding the ships to carry a force to expel them would probably be beyond the Senior Service, says Patrick Bishop. We need a properly functional Royal Navy @DailyMail @ModernNavy
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@MarioNawfal In fairness, Germany gifted 6 such submarines to Israel, who are an active participant in the war. How's about Israel use them?
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🇩🇪🇮🇷 Germany won't escort ships through Hormuz. Won't host US offensive aircraft. Won't join the war.
But they do operate 6 of the quietest submarines on earth.
The Type 212A runs on hydrogen fuel cells. No nuclear reactor. No need to surface for weeks. Virtually silent. Undetectable to most sonar. Armed with heavyweight torpedoes and capable of diving beyond 700 meters.
Stealthier than most nuclear subs. Without the nuclear reactor that gives them away.
Germany is sitting this war out publicly while quietly possessing the exact weapon that would make Iran's navy very nervous.
@DI313_
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇷🇦🇪 Fujairah suspending oil-loading operations. Iran warned. Then struck. Now the world's 3rd-largest oil storage hub and the last meaningful bypass route around the Strait of Hormuz is offline. Both doors are closed now. Reuters
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@RachelBitecofer If attacking Iran is all part of a divine plan to bring about the second coming of christ, Trump won't be happy. There's no chance of him winning the Nobel Peace Prize with the actual prince of peace knocking about.
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🚨The Pentagon’s Armageddon Problem
When Christian Nationalism Runs the U.S. Military
Pete Hegseth's White Christian Nationalist wet dream was to start war in the the Middle East to bring on biblical apocalypse.
And here we are. 🧵
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These figures are nonsense. The USA has 11 aircraft carriers.
A Great American! 🇺🇸 & 🔥@FlagAndFire
Only a few countries operate aircraft carriers. Most have one. The United States has twenty. That’s not a navy. That’s a floating air force that can show up anywhere on earth.
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I thought I’d made it clear the T26s (frigates) were not replacing the T45s (destroyers) and that what meant to be their replacements (T83s) was a very long way away.
Radfoot Strongdoctor@RStrongdoctor
The T26s do not fill the T45 gap. And the T83 is so far away that the Navy will be operating elderly, undermanned, problem-prone destroyers as its primary air defence asset through most of the 2030s. The capability gap is not coming. It is here, along with the credibility gap not far behind it.
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Behold, what is left of the Royal Navy surface fleet (minus patrol, auxiliary, and mine hunters).
Extraordinary.
GB News@GBNEWS
'The fact we had no assets in the region at all is very serious.' Contributing Editor of 'Defence on the Brink' Eliot Wilson discusses the state of British military assets, calling it 'extraordinary' that HMS Dragon still won't be ready until next week.
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@Suffragent_ Have you tried to apply for help with you NHS health costs? …for-help-with-nhs-costs.nhsbsa.nhs.uk
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This was found outside a migrant hotel in Derby.
It shows how illegal invaders get free NHS prescriptions, free dental treatment, free eye tests, free travel and even free wigs.
Meanwhile, we get nothing. 🇬🇧
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Thatcher organised a fleet of 127 warships and cruise ships within 48hrs ready to sail to the Falkland Islands after Argentina invaded 🇬🇧
Starmer organised 1 ship to sail to Cyprus to protect the island but it won't be ready to sail until next week 🚣🏼♂️
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@ZackPolanski You want a parliamentary vote every time a US aircraft lands at a base they lease under an agreement parliament voted on?
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These aircraft should not be allowed to land on British Soil.
Over 1000 civilians dead already after illegal war started by the US and Israel - and all this with no vote in the UK parliament about our role.
Charlie Peters@CDP1882
The first of several American B-1 heavy bombers has landed at RAF Fairford today after Keir Starmer gave the US permission to use British bases for strikes on Iran
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@punk_iv @OnthisdayRN Which specific T45 decision would that be? I only ask because I think that there have been a few bad decisions about those ships.
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#OnThisDay 20 years ago MOD announces that 12 ships will be paid off. T45 order reduced from 12 to 6, personnel reduced by 1,500. 1SL at time said 'I am confident that these changes will leave the Navy better organised and equipped to face the challenges of the future.'
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@mikeparry8 I think you might have discovered one of the reasons for the existence of NATO.
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HMS Dragon sets sail TOMORROW for Cyprus to protect our Royal Navy base Akritiri which has already been attacked. It'll get there NEXT week. Why wasn't the T45 ship there two weeks ago as the Iranian build up started? Our base is currently being defended by the Greek Navy 🥶
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@ArmchairAdml @TBrit90 Maybe not that curious. Dragon has already had the PIP refit, so better able to operate reliably as temperatures rise in the next few months.
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As per @TBrit90, HMS Dragon has been in maintenance for 74 days, while Duncan is currently active and would've been available for deployment.
Curious then as to why Dragon was chosen?
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
The UK is fully committed to the security of Cyprus and British military personnel based there. We’re continuing our defensive operations and I've just spoken with the President of Cyprus to let him know that we are sending helicopters with counter drone capabilities and HMS Dragon is to be deployed to the region. We will always act in the interest of the UK and our allies.
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Indeed. Labour has been useless on defence. But the Tories left an appalling legacy.
Waqas🔶️@m0w4q45
Just reminder who cut the British armed forces Since 2010, under the Tories, the British Army has dropped from around 102,000 regular soldiers to about 73,800 today. That’s nearly 30,000 soldiers gone on their watch. The Army is now the smallest it’s been since Napoleonic times. The RAF has fallen from around 44,000 in 2010 to about 31,000. The Royal Navy is running at roughly 29,000 regulars, struggling with recruitment and retention. Same guys who talk about bombing campaigns but have single handedly destroyed our armed forces.
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@ShumBaloo @Keir_Starmer Dragon has already had its propulsion systems upgraded to fix a fault that can cause complete power loss in hot conditions. Duncan's yet to be upgraded.
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The UK is fully committed to the security of Cyprus and British military personnel based there.
We’re continuing our defensive operations and I've just spoken with the President of Cyprus to let him know that we are sending helicopters with counter drone capabilities and HMS Dragon is to be deployed to the region.
We will always act in the interest of the UK and our allies.
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@UKForcesTracker @AWenham1 You'd like to think we could rely on the US Carrier Strike group sitting off the Israeli coast to deal with anything heading in Akrotiri's direction.
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Unusual harbour movements from HMS Duncan - out of Portsmouth late last night before returning this morning.
We should be deploying a Type 45 and Sky Sabre to defend Cyprus given Iran has fired ballistic missiles into the Eastern Mediterranean.
(Src: @AWenham1)
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