Classic @DefenceHQ incompetence: only 30 years to think about what would come next, and @BritishArmy ends up retiring the Land Rover before its replacement has even been selected
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David Turner (gs65 on B S k y)
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David Turner (gs65 on B S k y)
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Holding my nose in Musk's sewer and hoping for bluer skies Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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In other news, here's a photo of one of Mrs T's honeybees resting on a laurel leaf in yesterday's warm sunshine
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@Gabriel64869839 @FennellJW Only 3.5 years and counting. Will she need docking and recertification before she even commissions?
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UK ambassador to Norway visited Scotstoun today to see future HMS Glasgow (in photo) and Cardiff fitting out.
The stupidly long time it's taking to fit out these ships is unfortunately the result of some of those decisions, over many years, that seemed "sensible" at the time.
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@Paul_Bestwick1 @EdwardTHardy @Conservatives @UKLabour Not that many: T22 batch 3 perhaps but Tories also ordered 16 x T23, 8 x T26 plus 5 x T31. Not enough but a whole heap better than Labour which slips everything to the right
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@GreatStrides65 @EdwardTHardy @Conservatives @UKLabour To be fair some of the Tory ones were rather enforced by the Argentinians.
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Labour have been in office for less than two years
How long do you think it takes to build a naval vessel?
This isn’t Labour’s fault. This is the fault of years of Tory austerity
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The actual “deployable” size of the UK’s Navy currently. It’s truly sad.
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@alexmassie Half the price of a Type 31 frigate
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The correct decision but, blimey, it really is impressive - but not surprising - that you can spend £179m on not building a tunnel. Classic Britain.
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Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan lbc.co.uk/article/stoneh…
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Reporter: Why didn't you notify Japan that you were going to attack Iran?
Trump next to the Japanese PM:
"Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour? You believe in surprise I think much more so than us."
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I met with South Yorkshire Mayor @OliverCoppard to establish the South Yorkshire Defence Growth Deal.
This £50 million investment will grow defence capability and create high-skilled jobs across the region – making defence a true engine for growth. 🇬🇧
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@alexmassie Leopards don't change their spots x.com/GreatStrides65…
David Turner (gs65 on B S k y)@GreatStrides65
@EdwardTHardy #NumberCrunching 37: the number of escorts (destroyers and frigates) ordered by @Conservatives in the 32 years they were in power since May 1979 6: the number of escorts ordered by @UKLabour in the 15 years they've been in power since May 1997
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Exclusive: Ministers could push back major shipbuilding programmes and other projects to make £10 billion worth of savings in the Ministry of Defence thetimes.com/article/98990d…
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@larisamlbrown Why would a Labour government change its spots? x.com/GreatStrides65…
David Turner (gs65 on B S k y)@GreatStrides65
@EdwardTHardy #NumberCrunching 37: the number of escorts (destroyers and frigates) ordered by @Conservatives in the 32 years they were in power since May 1979 6: the number of escorts ordered by @UKLabour in the 15 years they've been in power since May 1997
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Exclusive:
Britain's civil service ethics chief twice offered to officially question Lord Mandelson over his links to Jeffrey Epstein but was rebuffed by No10.
Darren Tierney approached senior No10 staff in late 2024 and offered to conduct formal interviews before the decision.
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UK to buy additional @thalesgroup Martlet missiles as counter-drone weapon demand spikes. Interesting line stating the LMM has "already proven highly capable for air defence in the Middle East"; have shots been made using deployed @RoyalNavy Wildcats? flightglobal.com/defence/uk-to-…
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@Zaphod2042 @dahontr3 CVA-01 was killed off by Dennis Healey (when Cx in 1966)
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@dahontr3 A very good point, though I'm pulling the "before my time" card!
Might even consider Peter Thorneycroft, who killed off the CVA-01 carriers and their supporting escorts.
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The situation the Royal Navy now finds itself in, has been inevitable for over two decades:
First, in 2004, Geoff Hoon sold three almost new Type 23 Frigates to Chile. Reducing the fleet to 13
Then, in 2008, Bob Ainsworth cancelled the seventh and eighth Type 45 (down from 12)
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@BarbaraRich_law @AspireTechno @TonyDowson5 @lawsocgazette To be fair, the GLP did act for Dan Neidle in his successful defence of Setu Kamal's libel action
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@AspireTechno @TonyDowson5 @lawsocgazette This has always been my view of the GLP and the various cases it has pursued with varying degrees of success
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Charlotte Proudman took over representation of Olivia Nervo in a family law case in 2023.
In an appeal on costs (which found in favour of the father) Lord Justice Males criticised the new conduct of proceedings:
bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/…
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@cabinetofficeuk The hereditary peers' forebears received their places in the House of Lords by dint of political patronage. From now on the vast majority of peers will have received their places in the House of Lords by dint of political patronage. This is not as seismic a change as you pretend
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This is the biggest reform to our Parliament in a generation. 🇬🇧
This morning, the 700-year-old system of hereditary membership in the House of Lords was abolished. Membership is now earned through public service and merit, not granted by an inheritance. ✅
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@Grokipedia still saying I died in February 1981. 😳
grokipedia.com/page/Stuart_Cr…
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