@LeeHurstComic @john39389875 Yep.
Plus, Sir Richard has been in war zones. Just not enough accumulated time for medallic recognition. Probably more time than you…🤷🏻♂️
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My views are my own. Ex-military. Trained in threat assessment. Current assessment: we’re winging it. Risk register appears to be “hope.”
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No, I never served, but I did go to Iraq in 2007 and 2007 and Afghan in 2006 to perform to the troops for free.
Did you go to either?
Have you had sirens go off for incoming whilst you were there or driven in a three vehicle convoy through the Iraqi desert?
Or flown in the back of a Merlin firing off chaff over Basra?
Or sat in a Herc in Kandahar waiting to take off watching the plume go up from an explosion?
STFU if you haven’t.
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Being as he’s managed to swerve every warzone in the last 3 decades, hardly surprising.
I’ve been to two more than him and I’m just a fucking comedian.
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
'This is probably the most dangerous time in the last 30 years that I've been in uniform' On #BBCBreakfast Sir Richard Knighton, Chief of the Defence Staff, spoke one week after the start of the US-Israel war with Iran bbc.co.uk/news/live/ceqv…
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@JohnCleese It’s ai… the clue is the lead falls out of the second dogs bottom.
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Watch my press conference live. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@RussianEmbassy The peace plan is not complicated.
Russia stops shooting, withdraws its forces, and walks back across the border it crossed. The war ends the moment the invasion ends. No new maps. No redrawn borders. No negotiations conducted at gunpoint.
Just stop firing and go home.
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💬 Ambassador Kelin: The UK is leading, or at least pretending to lead, a coalition of the willing whose main objective is to destroy Russia. The UK is very belligerent in that sense.
I've never heard the UK government say anything about peacefully settling the Ukraine crisis.
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@ModernNavy @B0ATsmith @DailyMail @RoyalNavy @DefenceHQ Cyprus is strategically vital to the UK and its allies in a volatile region.
If the bases there lack the defensive infrastructure to protect themselves and the mission, we present a target.
That puts personnel at risk and weakens the credibility of the UK presence on the island
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Daily Mail reports Chief of Defence Staff, Richard Knighton under pressure.
"The failure to send a warship proved to be a disastrous political judgment that enraged #Cyprus, #Jordan and the #UAE."
@DailyMail @ModernNavy @RoyalNavy @DefenceHQ #Iran
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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@RobertH1947 @Matt_Law_DT Changing managers early can steady the season, but it doesn’t fix the structure underneath.
Recruitment strategy, squad balance, football leadership… those are multi-year decisions. That’s why Spurs look chaotic for a while after every regime change.
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Tottenham players have no faith in Tudor #thfc
telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…
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Chagos, Gibraltar, Cyprus - is @Keir_Starmer a traitor by accident or design?
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@EpochOfWhat Operational tours matter. But they’re not the only route to strategic judgement.
Knighton built his career on capability and force Operational tours matter. But they’re not the only route to strategic judgement.
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This is the weakness you get when you appoint a CDS who has never done a single operational tour.
Jake Wallis Simons@JakeWSimons
Chief of the defence staff. He’s no Lord Nelson is he?
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@Sandile_Moloi92 @SpencerHakimian I'm not insulting anyone—that screenshot is fake. No way I'd post vulgar nonsense like that. Just a troll edit. 😂
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@exRAF_Al @BBCBreakfast That’s not true though is it? He just didn’t do the days to qualify g ft or medallic recognition. Plus, he has one of the most strategic brains in the MoD. Glad he is where he is…
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@BBCBreakfast Hardly surprising, given that he hasn’t done a single proper deployment in his thirty years.
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'This is probably the most dangerous time in the last 30 years that I've been in uniform'
On #BBCBreakfast Sir Richard Knighton, Chief of the Defence Staff, spoke one week after the start of the US-Israel war with Iran
bbc.co.uk/news/live/ceqv…
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@BasilTheGreat It’s just a normal guy wearing a hi-viz jacket and white helmet. He’s not an officer. Police don’t patrol on mopeds! But all the same… it’s still a brutal attack
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@Keir_Starmer @JohnHealey_MP At least someone’s working hard to keep us safe as it isn’t you!!
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I would like to extend my thanks to the police, the security services, and everyone involved in keeping Britain safe.
People will be worried after today's arrests, especially those in our Jewish community. Our world-leading security services will not hesitate to protect you.
There are some who will use moments like this to divide people. It is vital that we now come together as a nation, united in our common purpose.
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@AndyAitcheson I’m still surprised they never stripped Glenn Snazzle/Houghton/Osinski of his OBE.
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@ToryWipeout @JohnHealey_MP @UKinCyprus @PalmasVasilis We went in light, spread thin across isolated positions, and quickly found ourselves in a real insurgency.
When soldiers are borrowing kit in the middle of a war, something has already gone wrong.
That gap cost lives!
Poor government decisions cost lives!
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@ToryWipeout @JohnHealey_MP @UKinCyprus @PalmasVasilis I was in Helmand in 2006 on the first deployment.
There were times we were begging our US brothers for equipment and ammunition just to keep fighting.
The mission we were given and the fighting power we were sent with were not the same thing.
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The longstanding friendship between the UK and the Republic of Cyprus is strong in the face of Iranian threats.
This morning with Cypriot Defence Minister @PalmasVasilis I discussed how the UK is further reinforcing our air defences to support our shared security.
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@DrChrisParry @UKLabour Agreed.
Once our reputation for reliability begins to fade it does not stay confined to one incident or one region. It becomes the frame through which every future decision is judged.
That perception will take hold, our adversaries will test it. They always do… standby!
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The issue is not whether we could mount a task force to reclaim the Falklands today (we couldn't), but whether we have a @UKLabour regime that would have the political will to send it.
The @UKLabour view presumably is that 'if we are never going to send a task force, there's no point in having one'.
'We'd much rather spend the money on rewarding cross-Channel amphibious breaches of our maritime border'.
Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁@COLRICHARDKEMP
This is not a comparable situation, but out of interest, the last time British sovereign territory was attacked (Falklands 1982), a task force of some 40 RN ships sailed into action from the UK in about the same time that has elapsed since Iran hit RAF Akrotiri (4 days).
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