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@FishOps86 @gav424 Wow!

@gav424 Highest we saw on Lilibet was 101.7 knots which was just before 2300hrs 😀

What a wild night here in the Falklands. The house is creaking worse than my knees when the gusts of wind hits. Its actually quite scary when you are out in it. I can certainly see why the vessels have all taken shelter where they can. Time to batten down the hatches and let out all the chain I have in my locker and ride it out. Happily I have enough ballast on board to keep me planted on the ground.

@Flyingpig1975 @FishOps86 Still looks good Stevie!

FPV Lilibet is ready to head out for another patrol. See what this patrol brings.

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand. Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes. Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports.  That is now over. Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington. Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic. Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Bizarre appointments made against official advice, zero growth in the economy in January and crippling electricity prices for British business. Welcome to the incompetent world of Britain's Labour government. Starmer is simply an inept politician with his handling of the Mandelson affair, the shameful Chagos sell-out and lack of understanding of our allies in the Iran conflict, causing the trashing of our reputation abroad. Giving even cynical showmen like Macron space on the international stage is just one more humiliation. Reeves has singularly failed in her first year and a half to produce any meaningful growth in the UK economy not least because she keeps taxing the sources of wealth. Since these taxes on business will be passed through to consumers, there is already inflation in the system before we feel the full shock of the Iran crisis. All this is made worse by the economic act of self-harm of having industrial energy prices 40 to 50% higher than France and Germany and over four times higher than the US and Canada. Yet Miliband continues his ideological crusade blind to the fact that he is hobbling the competitiveness of British companies. And all the while unemployment rises to a five year high. Yet Starmer, Reeves and Miliband, the three amigos of national catastrophe, are likely to inflict much more damage on Britain before the Labour Party has the courage to get rid of them... Truly a national tragedy.

On political support, on practical support, on UK bases including Chagos, and on NATO the PM has consistently dropped the ball on defence. The US won’t forget this.

Totally agree

Defending our citizens and national interests globally is the responsibility of the government of the day. The lack of leadership displayed by @Keir_Starmer in abrogating this to the USA @realDonaldTrump with access to UK bases after the event is embarrassing

M3 eastbound closed at Fleet. Off ramp diversion not moving either. Completely grid locked

Starmer is saying sorry about Mandelson about every 3 minutes. So when will he say sorry about taking freebie clothes from Lord Ali, sorry about misleading the Waspi women, sorry for imposing the death tax on farmers, sorry for the last 2 budgets, sorry for council tax going up when he said it wouldn’t, sorry for taking the winter fuel payment away from millions of pensioners, sorry for not standing up for veterans, sorry for not stopping illegal immigration, sorry for raising employers national insurance when he said he wouldn’t raise national insurance , sorry for caning the pub industry, sorry for unemployment rising , and sorry for having more u turns than a plumber’s warehouse.

@John_ForemanCBE Maybe. But it’s what NATO has agreed to be formed and this was the final certification exercise.

The UK armed forces: all tip, no actual spear.

Sure. It won’t make any difference. I don’t have the time to make up for your inadequacies. You have launched a fatwa on your loyal high paying customers for reasons best known to yourselves. I will have done six first class returns to NYC in the past year plus first class return to Sydney and numerous Nice-London business class. Yet I still won’t be able to renew my GGL Group O status. If I don’t qualify who does? No matter. I have gold for life which means I can always use your lounges. But instead of always travelling BA I will look for better more convenient deals with other airlines eg Nice to NYC direct, forget BA out of London. Why you would treat someone like me like that baffles common sense. But BA, not me, will be the loser, especially if I decide to broadcast my experience to my 1.2m X followers and on Times Radio and Mail columns. At the moment you’re a case study in an historic British brand gone badly long. I might make it my business to explain and expose why. You’re interesting as a business case study in stupidity. @britishairways

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iOS 26…. Why change the look? It’s awful @Apple really poor visually …. Wishy washy feel and look to it . You’ve lost clarity. Can you offer options to revert to previous look ?

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Rayner had been caught misleading the country over her property taxes. She clearly thinks there's one rule for her and another rule for everyone else. Every Labour MP defending her today endorses her reckless, irresponsible and unacceptable behaviours. She should resign.

We have all had more than enough of the bare faced hypocrisy from this appalling Labour rabble. They are incapable useless hypocrites and we deserve better. They have wrecked our country in 1 year. They should resign now.

‘If it were me, you’d all be demanding I resign!’ @Nigel_Farage says 'it's more likely than not' that Angela Rayner will have to resign in the wake of her tax scandal, after admitting she wrongly avoided paying stamp duty. 'I just don't see how she can survive this...'

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