@KenSkatesMS An SMR built for Tata Steel's energy requirements 10 years ago would have done a lot to reduce manufacturing costs and possibly kept the blast furnaces open.
@JeremyBrookman2@RhonddaBryant It's not a country really though is it? If any one of the inter marriages and or alliances between the princes of the Welsh fiefdoms had worked in the favour of those west of Offa's dyke we might have easily had a Welsh royal family ruling England & Wales for centuries.
Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”
@Manics For me it has to be "Vivian". Like so many things MSP lyrics have sent me on journeys of discovery. Learning about Vivian was a pleasure mixed with melancholy.
@Bushra1Shaikh Oh Bushra, while you're correct about most things, this post is absolute nonsense. US forces have a long history of doing everything to rescue downed aircrew. Remember the Jordanian pilot burnt alive by Daesh?
@wrex1980@fesshole I'm reading it at the moment coincidentally. It's taking me forever though as I keep following his route on Google maps & using Street view to look for the Inns/pubs/hotels he stayed at. Surprisingly many are still going.
@SohoKenchie@DPJHodges@Northern_Goblin Bullshit. The Govt of the last 18 months is not responsible for the hollowed out Royal Navy. There are no RN ships in the gulf today because of Tory cuts.
@SangitaMyska@LizWebsterSBF I know quite a bit reUK mil. It seems the public fall into 2 camps. The 1st deluded in thin'g that we're still a major power & those who realise the forces have been cut to the quick. The "jets" the PM is refto will be RAF Typhoons from Cyprus performing their normal duties