andrew crisp

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@RachelReevesMP You are surely taking the piss. It’s like your trolling yourself

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@elonmusk Or we just protecting our kids from social media. Social media causes more trouble than it’s worth. Mental health issues people who shouldn’t be given a platform to spread their disgusting views and then you have foreign states using it to spread disharmony and hatred.

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@thinkdefence A point in time drone. Everything about them needs go be software defined so it’s easily changed

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@thinkdefence They are just another weapon in the toolbox an important new one but we need to learn from Ukraine given how fast Russia learns to defeat one type there is no point having in storage 20k of a particular type - we need an agile production line that can adapt to deliver point 1/2

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@thinkdefence Start a European travel firm 😂

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@JSHeappey Have they or have they simply massaged the figures to make it look like they have by adding in mi5/6 and gchq budgets into mod one plus pensions and nuclear deterrence that George Osborne thrust on them

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@Johnmcternan Or how about the government actually stores enough oil and gas to protect us from energy spikes like Germany etc does ! 2 weeks gas reserve is a joke. @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP can blame trump/ Putin all they like but done fuck all to protect us against problems

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@haynesdeborah This alone shows @Keir_Starmer and @RachelReevesMP are completely incompetent and rank amateurs at running the uk - they are doing Anastasia job of destroying the uk

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@fharris2011 @defencewithac So we cannot afford to fund defence but we can afford £4.5 billion on cycle paths !! @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP your priorities are so fucked up @AlistairCarns @JohnHealey_MP

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@MarkUrban01 @BeaverWestminst Put the honourable back into the right honourable

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@jonsopel Number 11

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@larisamlbrown Now let’s see if the @UKCDS_MOD has the spin to resign as well.

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@larisamlbrown A truely right honourable for a change ! Stood up for what is right and resigns unlike so many before him. Put morales above his owns self interest

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@JohnHealey_MP Respect !! Finally an mp with proper morals who knows what is right & wrong- never thought I would see an mp put the country before self interest ! You are the first sir & for standing up for what you believe is right and against @RachelReevesMP & @hmtreasury fiddling figures

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@LukePollard Fuck sake as did Labour before them ! And you wonder why British public fed up with politicians! It’s always the last lots fault !

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@AlexLuck9 Or buy only half the amount we actually need

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@thinkdefence But why should we pay to fix it ? It was supposed to be fixed cost any issues it’s in gd to pay for it

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@thinkdefence Germany replaces uk more likely ! That will no doubt be the outcome of this stupid Labour gov @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @JohnHealey_MP #tsr2_again

[andrew crisp @akcrisp]

@LOS_Fisher @JohnHealey_MP @UKCDS_MOD @LukePollard why the fuck are we paying to fix gd flawed vehicle design. We should be suing them not paying an extra billion to fix it. It was supposed to be fix cost contract @BenWallace70 do you not think you were lied too re it being fixed?

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.