Again, what does it mean, though.
An earlier answer said Financial Year 2028/29 is now apparently the plan.
Which in turn would make a SDB 2 purchase more or less pointless since it would not arrive before sometime next year at the very earliest.
What. Is. The. Plan.
NEW: Argentina Applies for CPTPP
Argentina has formally requested to accede to the now 13-member CPTPP.
The UK has a veto on any new members, so I guess Argentina will be dropping their demands around the Falklands soon if they actually want membership.
https://t.co/onYbd0PJqf
@KonstantinKisin Cuffing a dying stab victim due to his race is divisive.
Orwellian doesn't begin to describe the point equity (Leftism) has led us to when we abandoned equality (liberalism).
I will take absolutely no lectures about "divisiveness" from the people who gave us two-tier policing, racial hiring quotas and endless race-baiting.
Unlike you, we do not kneel.
Evading the issues raised by the Novak killing by hiding behind the family is wrong on many levels. The one Starmer would understand, as a lawyer, is that the case against Henry Novak's killer was brought by the Crown, on behalf of everyone. This isn't a private prosecution. Nobody wants to cause the Novak family additional anguish, but this case was brought to trial for the public good. The issues it raises remain in the public domain and are entirely legitimate subjects for political debate.
The country owes a huge debt of gratitude for the life and service of Sir Alex Younger.
He was a remarkable man, kind, brave and with a streak of integrity a mile wide. He will be missed by his friends and those lucky to have served with him.
https://t.co/y3BbS7alQl
An important article 👇 from @NigelDoddsDUP about his EU Withdrawal Bill, which gets First Reading in the Lords today.
It would provide for the dismantling of the pernicious Windsor Framework in Northern Ireland, and its replacement by mutual enforcement arrangements, so that *all* of us in the UK would set our own laws, and so that the necessary reforms to our economic life could be accomplished without leaving Northern Ireland behind.
Of course this government has no intention of doing this. As Lord Dodds notes, they are proceeding with the European Partnership Bill which will start the process of giving further powers to Brussels.
But it is important to show there is an alternative, a feasible and practical one. Once this government is gone, I hope its successor can get things back on the right track and restore full democracy to all our country.
https://t.co/jTU8Mi5s7P
There 47 police forces in the UK other than Hampshire and the Isle of White. Do we really think what happened to Henry Nowak could only happen there, we need wholesale change.
When someone is murdered, we get to debate the political & social implications of that murder. I accept no other rules, whether the victim is Henry Nowak, Elsie Dot Stancombe, David Amess or Jo Cox.
This business of saying we must do what the family want is weird. If the family had said what they thought should happen now is the whipping up of division, some riots & some attacks on Sikhs, I'm pretty sure Starmer wouldn't be saying we should follow their wishes then.
Ok. When, though? It is not going to just "happen". Replacement ships have to be ordered in order to happen. And the more time elapses before they are ordered, the more time the Navy will have to wait for them.
The murder of Henry Nowak shows us one thing. The establishment hate X because X lets us see the truth.
Do you believe for one single moment that without X, we'd know anything like what we do now about this appalling case?
They don't want to close down X to protect us from extremism – they want to close it down to protect themselves from scrutiny.
And yet the massed ranks of Whitehall Remainers have learned nothing.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) continues to cite the ubiquitous “fact” that Brexit has caused a 4pc reduction in UK GDP.
This estimate was never the result of in-house modelling – merely the watchdog’s collation of various external pre-Brexit forecasts, mostly from Remain-backing organisations.
Since the 2016 referendum, the UK has actually grown by 12.9pc in total, outpacing 12.5pc in France, 10.3pc in Italy and 6.3pc in Germany – all of which were in the EU last time I checked.
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Yes, we need to use our Brexit freedoms to a much greater extent, allowing Britain to excel in sectors including biotech, artificial intelligence, satellites, agricultural genomics and financial services among others.
And of course the UK needs to recalibrate once again as a low-tax, low-regulation, high-productivity economy – and, again, Brexit provides the perfect opportunity, if only we could summon the courage.
But the "clearly Brexit has been an economic disaster" horror stories aren’t true – and, if we so chose, and pursue the right policies, Britain could soar economically outside the EU.
Conventional wisdom, as is so often the case, is no wisdom at all ....
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https://t.co/3x1C903R8n
Time to say it out loud. The “Brexit was a disaster” narrative beloved of Remainers & Rejoiners is a downright lie. We’re doing better than comparable economies who stayed in the EU.