Robert Young

Public sector advisor and consultant on transformation.

[Robert Young @Defence_Finance]

After a long two year wait the streets of Bristol and Bath are safer for women after securing conviction for sexual assault. Well done to the women who bravely defended their rights.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘The deal Keir Starmer made with Mauritius was appalling!’

First Minister of the Chagos Islands Misley Mandarin slams the Prime Minister for ‘the surrender deal’, adding ‘we want to stay British!’

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

"There’s not a farmer alive that supports Labour"

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

Best political interview I've seen in years. Gloriously, Lammy is too stuffed with cognitive dysentery to fully appreciate the baroque splendour of the skewering he's being subjected to. Masterful from @TrevorPTweets, if only all the media were like this.

[Iain Ballantyne @IBallantyn]

French SSN has been in and out of the Clyde. We on @Warships have commented on this and published at least one pic of said boat on that task, a while ago. I mean if you send your only attack boat to Australia and the US Navy is busy, who you gonna call? The UK also using Norwegian boats for its sub CO course and could not contribute a SSN to recent ASW ex, but Germany, Portugal and Norway sent diesel boats. UK used to send boats under Arctic ice for exercise with USN but this year sent a few sailors up there aboard American boat. We have fallen very far in the undersea warfare league table.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Ukraine just struck the Protasovo airfield near Ryazan — home to a drone production and training center.

The facility planned to produce 5,000 drones per month.

The best way to stop russian drones is to destroy them before they take off.

[James MacCleary MP @JamesMacCleary]

This is a really damning report.

Last week I asked the govt about the economic impact of the delays to the Defence Investment Plan. All I got was a shirty answer.

This report highlights the stark reality of the damage done by Labour's dithering and delays.

We need the DIP now.

[Robert Young @Defence_Finance]

Oh my god embarassing all we can offer is 40 year old University boat squadron training craft! @thinkdefence @UKDefJournal not even a gun on them! @JohnHealey_MP @Keir_Starmer @10DowningStreet @RoyalNavy @Conservatives @reformparty_uk @Nigel_Farage @KemiBadenoch @haynesdeborah

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

.@HMSTrumpeter @HMSPuncher @HMS_Ranger and @HMS_Smiter
participate in PHOTEX at the start of annual multi national exercise in the Baltic #BALTOPS2026

Via @USNavyEurope

[Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond]

Some people believe that Britain’s slowness to re-build its armed forces after 30 years of under-investment doesn’t matter. They say Putin’s army is wrecked. Russia’s economy is in ruins. And Russia’s people have no appetite for further conflict. All this is true. But once the war in Ukraine ends, it will give Putin breathing space to reset and reconstitute. If China, Iran, or North Korea support this process, a revitalised Russian Army could emerge within 5 years. Putin may not plan an immediate attack against the Baltics or any European member NATO. Instead, we should remember that he is an opportunist. He will look for weakness he can exploit. If Britain lets our conventional forces fall below a threshold level of credibility, we will make ourselves vulnerable. Our nuclear deterrence remains the ultimate guarantor of our security. But, without adequate conventional forces, should we need to respond to unexpected attack, we will be faced with an acceptable binary choice: absorb aggression or escalate early to the threat of nuclear weapons. Right now, our nuclear deterrent is creaking at the seams and our conventional forces are close to being undeployable. I think we may have reached the point where only a strategic shock (which results in the loss of British service men and women’s lives) will jolt us out of our lethargy and complacency.

[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 RUSSIAN MILBLOGGERS ARE PANICKING OVER A UKRAINIAN BREAKTHROUGH

Russian milbloggers are sounding the alarm, claiming Ukrainian forces have broken through, units are under fire, Bolshemykhailivka is falling, and the eastern push is crushing through.

The interesting part is not just the panic. It is that the people usually paid in denial are now openly admitting the lines are breaking.

When Russian propaganda starts running out of confident lies, something has clearly gone very wrong on the ground. Check the blue arrows. @actfast

[Britsky @TBrit90]

The one cut I'm praying for.

[Robert Young @Defence_Finance]

VOTE @UKLabour OUT.
All liars, cheats and only in it for themselves @AndyBurnhamGM

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Out in Makerfield with @AndyBurnhamGM yesterday.

Labour was built in towns like this. Our job is to build a Labour Party worthy of them.

18th June. Vote Labour.

[Great British PAC 🇬🇧 @GreatBritishPAC]

The Dartmoor Hill Pony should not be brought to the brink by modern bureaucracy.
Today we have written to Defra and Natural England seeking urgent answers. We will not stay silent while Britain's living heritage is put at risk.
#SaveTheDartmoorPonies

[Think Defence @thinkdefence]

So are ze Germans joining GCAP and Europe will end up with Rafale and Typhoon again?

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Not enough money and not enough thinking about this in advance.’

Former Royal Navy Officer James Gater says the conditions of five submarines awaiting repair and unfit for war are an inevitable consequence of a lack of investment in Britain’s armed forces.

[Robert Young @Defence_Finance]

Another lying @UKLabour MP @AshleyDalton_MP retract this false claim
Since you came into office, number including primary has FALLEN BY 2,900! @bphillipsonMP @ONS @Conservatives @ActionBrexit @reformparty_uk @GBNEWS @BBCPolitics @NickFerrariLBC @TrevorPTweets @afneil @TalkTV

[Ashley Dalton MP @AshleyDalton_MP]

🆕 Latest figures show this Labour government has delivered more than 70% of the 6,500 additional teachers we promised.

This is across primary, secondary, FE and special schools.

[Richard James @skisidjames]

What is the problem with this useless government. Two years on and nothing seems to work.. https://t.co/ujuzRE9Gkr

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

It's racist - let's face it.

[Robert Young @Defence_Finance]

And even that is highly optomistic given problems with T-31 build and fact remaining T-23s well beyond hull life. The picture could get even worse! @ThreshedThought @DrChrisParry @thinkdefence @UKDefJournal

[Mike Martin MP 🔸 @ThreshedThought]

Hence the FRIGATE GAP - and we are bang slap in the middle of it.

We are incredibly vulnerable. For several years.

[Mike Martin MP 🔸 @ThreshedThought]

Hence the FRIGATE GAP - and we are bang slap in the middle of it.

We are incredibly vulnerable. For several years.

[Robert Young @Defence_Finance]

Since when do we have "Ministerial planes"? We used to have a multi-purpose "Communications flight" to serve multiple requirements @UKDefJournal @thinkdefence

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

Britain's plan to put its two Falcon 900LX ministerial jets onto the Military Aircraft Register and to fit them with the defensive countermeasures needed for dangerous airspace has been paused while other work takes priority. Click image for more.
https://t.co/9bVv6qrM3G