We had a good thing, Britain.
A really good thing.
You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks.
The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls.
That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world.
That was the deal.
Now look at you.
You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state.
You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM.
You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain.
You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City.
Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks.
You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today.
Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock.
Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what?
We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund.
Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t.
You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships.
You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them.
The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies.
You had one job.
Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits.
That’s it. That’s all we asked.
And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.
Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us.
But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.
I have received 17 DM’s asking for my ‘views’ on the comments made by Sir Jim Radcliffe. He stated that the UK is being ‘colonised’ and that the ‘immigrants are costing too much money’.
The most disgraceful Prime Minister in the history of this country has hypocritically inserted himself into this fluff of a story.
This pedophile enabling leader of the parliamentary gaytriarchy who stymied investigations into the industrialised rape of working class white girls in this country should keep quiet.
Jim Radcliffes words were a little clunky but what he stated was undoubtedly accurate. This country is £5 Trillion in debt with the country currently paying roughly £150Billion annually in interest.
Strangely enough, public sector net borrowing is running at £151 Billion annually. In essence the government is borrowing to pay debt pushing up the overall national debt. This is literally crazy economics that is destroying the UK.
Why then does both the political Left and Right insist on taking in hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that are of zero net benefit to this country?
From an economic viewpoint Radcliffe is of correct. Are his comments ‘racist?’ An emphatic no. Has parts of the UK been ‘colonised?’ It is in my opinion a clunky description.
Have parts of the UK undergone rapid, profound demographic transformation in a remarkably short period of time? That cannot be disputed.
If a town changes beyond recognition within a generation and schools, languages spoken on the high street, religious institutions flip 360, what precisely are UK citizens permitted to call that?
‘Diversity enrichment?’
‘Dynamic demographic vibrancy?’ At what point does linguistic politeness become intellectual dishonesty?
Radcliffe stated what many ascribe to. It is not ‘racist’ to hold those opinions. Good grief.
@pmoney@ShureUK@shure@OverclockersUK@noblechairs Few are looking bad in here. I haven’t even got a setup. Order parts to build my first PC and going from there. I can send a picture of my floor and empty corner of a room