Mike Pratt

Personal account. Any thoughts expressed are entirely my own. I retweet and like interesting stuff but am not necessarily endorsing the original tweet

[John Duffield @jfwduffield]

Wait until you find out about their bogus qualification & levels of malpractice. Aside from that recruiting nurses from the Third World is positively immoral.

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

I see many of you are still bitching about a man who builds rockets, autonomous cars and satellites becoming rich - on the platform he owns.

Maybe get out of bed and go build something yourself?

[Simon Cooke @SimonMagus]

Yes. Have argued this for ages. But we first we need to sort out our prisons

[Mike Pratt @mickpr1]

It’s not a brilliant example. The Jackal is unsuited to European ops. I would love Supacat to be making lots of vehicles for the Army but heads need banging together to get something appropriate

[James Cartlidge MP 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @jcartlidgemp]

On a busy day like this, you can’t beat test driving a @SupacatLtd Jackal in the Devon countryside - a brilliant example of Britain’s amazing defence industry.

[Tim L-G🇺🇦 @IntercityFC]

If Keir Starmer was running White Star Line in 1912 - ‘We abandoned ship in a sustainable way and fair way. I am proud of our record of funding lifeboats. I will do everything possible to keep our passengers safe from icebergs’.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

An astonishing woman. Sorely missed by us all.❤️

[Mike Pratt @mickpr1]

@AndrewHWestern That’s an ideological position based on no sensible analysis. It takes no account of the consequences. It will cost the government more.

[John Duffield @jfwduffield]

Again. The Mayor of London should have no direct control or influence over the Met Police. Also the Mayor of the London, & all other elected mayors, need to be scrapped. London should be governed directly by the London Assembly.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

If you are of the view that millions of your fellow Britons are angry only because they have been “whipped up” by a few right-wing bogeymen, you truly do not understand your own country.

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

A friend just messaged me - ‘Just read Al Cs letter. I think better of him now. I also understand the motivation to ‘fix from the inside, in a command appointment’….until it gets too much. But how much of this is conviction and how much of this is strategic, hard to say. Gifted and respected warrior, but he’s got into bed with a very bad lot. Hermer, Starmer, Milliband, Phillipson, Lammy and the rest.

A doctrine designed to destroy the fabric of the nation. This isn’t old fashioned patriotic Labour, which in the postwar era was a ‘thing’. This is dark international Marxist Leninist social engineering, plain to see.’

[James @jhallwood]

Unsure free breakfast clubs would survive a major war

[Matthew Warwick @mpwarwick]

Perhaps I am old fashioned, but if the SoS for Defence and the Armed Forces Minister resign on the basis that No. 10 and the Treasury are either unwilling or unable to fund the defence of the state appropriately, then that should be a resignation for both the PM and Chancellor.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Yes. And I will 💅

[JamesFennell MBE @FennellJW]

Time for the PM to go now. This country needs a leader who is prepared to defend it and capable of making the tough decisons the geopolitical moment demands.

[Mike Pratt @mickpr1]

Took the words right out of my mouth

[JamesFennell MBE @FennellJW]

Fuck off you twat.

[Mike Pratt @mickpr1]

@FennellJW Hopefully

[Tim L-G🇺🇦 @IntercityFC]

We now have the same number of Defence Secretary’s as SSN’s at sea.

[Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly]

Britain since 1945 (especially whenever Labour is in power) is a story of slow but steady imperial decline that denudes Defence & national security of money in order to feed an insatiable welfare state & public sector unions

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Like Churchill turning up in 1946 urging we start investing in Spitfires.

[Mike Pratt @mickpr1]

Staggeringly stupid and no real surprise

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

A staggeringly stupid thing for any Treasury official to say. It was Healey's job to advocate for the area within his brief. He was no more "asking for cuts to schools and hospitals" than a Health Secretary advocating for more NHS spending would be "asking for cuts to Defence."