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wanderingmarine (retd Col RM)

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

@AFP @FA withdraw from FIFA and all countries establish new world football organisation @FIFAcom will go bust!

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

@GlamBecks21 U turns

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

@ukboomers 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[enzochocobo @EnzoLuca]

Lee Dixon is a dreadful commentator wtf are ITV thinking

[Brand Finance @BrandFinance]

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[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

@FishOps86 @gav424 Wow!

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

@Flyingpig1975 @FishOps86 Still looks good Stevie!

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand.

Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes.
Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports. 
That is now over.

Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington.

Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic.

Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Sir Liam Fox @LiamFox]

Bizarre appointments made against official advice, zero growth in the economy in January and crippling electricity prices for British business. Welcome to the incompetent world of Britain's Labour government.

Starmer is simply an inept politician with his handling of the Mandelson affair, the shameful Chagos sell-out and lack of understanding of our allies in the Iran conflict, causing the trashing of our reputation abroad. Giving even cynical showmen like Macron space on the international stage is just one more humiliation.

Reeves has singularly failed in her first year and a half to produce any meaningful growth in the UK economy not least because she keeps taxing the sources of wealth. Since these taxes on business will be passed through to consumers, there is already inflation in the system before we feel the full shock of the Iran crisis.

All this is made worse by the economic act of self-harm of having industrial energy prices 40 to 50% higher than France and Germany and over four times higher than the US and Canada. Yet Miliband continues his ideological crusade blind to the fact that he is hobbling the competitiveness of British companies. And all the while unemployment rises to a five year high.

Yet Starmer, Reeves and Miliband, the three amigos of national catastrophe, are likely to inflict much more damage on Britain before the Labour Party has the courage to get rid of them...

Truly a national tragedy.

[John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE]

On political support, on practical support, on UK bases including Chagos, and on NATO the PM has consistently dropped the ball on defence.

The US won’t forget this.

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

Totally agree

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Spineless cowardice by Starmer

He has humiliated UK on international stage & this makes him an even greater laughing stock

I’m sure the mad Mullahs are really impressed by his fence sitting navigation of “international law”, which they adhere to so much

This is not leadership

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

Defending our citizens and national interests globally is the responsibility of the government of the day. The lack of leadership displayed by @Keir_Starmer in abrogating this to the USA @realDonaldTrump with access to UK bases after the event is embarrassing

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

M3 eastbound closed at Fleet. Off ramp diversion not moving either. Completely grid locked

[Rt Hon Nigel Evans @nigelmp]

Starmer is saying sorry about Mandelson about every 3 minutes. So when will he say sorry about taking freebie clothes from Lord Ali, sorry about misleading the Waspi women, sorry for imposing the death tax on farmers, sorry for the last 2 budgets, sorry for council tax going up when he said it wouldn’t, sorry for taking the winter fuel payment away from millions of pensioners, sorry for not standing up for veterans, sorry for not stopping illegal immigration, sorry for raising employers national insurance when he said he wouldn’t raise national insurance , sorry for caning the pub industry, sorry for unemployment rising , and sorry for having more u turns than a plumber’s warehouse.

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

@John_ForemanCBE Maybe. But it’s what NATO has agreed to be formed and this was the final certification exercise.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Sure. It won’t make any difference. I don’t have the time to make up for your inadequacies.
You have launched a fatwa on your loyal high paying customers for reasons best known to yourselves. I will have done six first class returns to NYC in the past year plus first class return to Sydney and numerous Nice-London business class.
Yet I still won’t be able to renew my GGL Group O status. If I don’t qualify who does? No matter. I have gold for life which means I can always use your lounges.
But instead of always travelling BA I will look for better more convenient deals with other airlines eg Nice to NYC direct, forget BA out of London.
Why you would treat someone like me like that baffles common sense. But BA, not me, will be the loser, especially if I decide to broadcast my experience to my 1.2m X followers and on Times Radio and Mail columns. At the moment you’re a case study in an historic British brand gone badly long. I might make it my business to explain and expose why. You’re interesting as a business case study in stupidity.
@britishairways

[Brand Finance @BrandFinance]

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[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

Restaurant in Vancouver for you ⁦⁦@Flyingpig1975⁩ !

[Nigel @nigelpeterbrown]

iOS 26…. Why change the look? It’s awful @Apple really poor visually …. Wishy washy feel and look to it . You’ve lost clarity. Can you offer options to revert to previous look ?