Exactly the problem- not an ounce of competence within the civilian side of the MoD and they are in abundance.
Majority work from home and rarely onsite or in office… no accountability to anything or anyone.
@PolitlcsUK There are more civil servants in the Miniatry of Defence than there are active duty personnel in the armed forces. The treatment of the armed forces by successive governments has been disgraceful. End net zero, slash foreign aid, cut benefits. We need to be defended.
This is a political failure of the current & last govt, and a regulatory one. The solution is simple... BAN (ABOVE INFLATION) MID CONTRACT PRICE HIKES.
- They took too long to tackle mid-contract above inflation price rises
- When Ofcom did, it just said 'mid contract rises are ok, if you say in £s at sign-up what it'll be'. This has resulted in even bigger % above inflation hikes.
‼️Glasgow and Edinburgh airports are currently experiencing fuel supply issues for unknown reasons, causing delays and operational changes across multiple airlines.
✈️Several airlines are uplifting extra fuel at other destinations
Impacts so far:
• TUI flights from Glasgow are routing via Prestwick (PIK) for refuelling
• Emirates' Edinburgh → Dubai service will stop in Manchester this evening
• Air France Edinburgh-Paris will stop in Manchester
Further delays are possible across both airports.
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Britain is breaking clean power records☀️
269,000 solar installations completed in 2025 - the highest ever recorded and 37% larger than the year before.
Families are choosing homegrown energy, lower bills and greater energy security.
I am a Labour party member and am not going to vote for Andy Burnham Wes StreetIng or anyone else. I am going to vote for PM Starmer because he won a landslide victory under two years ago & needs at least another two years to demonstrate economic and political success.
@SophyRidgeSky can you tell us in NHS leadership roles whether we will have our 8th SoS of health in last decade or will it stay at 7.
It’s quite difficult to plan much tbh 🙂
#T1Diabetes & #T2Diabetes are not the same overarching 'thing'
Pulling them together into one place-at a policy level- does only one thing
Make people choose priorities-and based on sheer volume and finances?
#T1D will always lose out
Stop doing silly stuff
With thanks
PSK
If the UK was US state it would rank
1st in life expectancy
1st in state with lowest Homicide rate
1st in avg years in school
2nd in lowest drugs deaths
3rd in minimum wage
9th in HDI
10th in lowest obesity
But..
51st in GDP PC
Yet again GDP per capita doesn't equal qol.
🚨 BREAKING:Macron is TROLLING Trump at epic level 🔥
Macron: "When we are serious, we do not say the opposite of what we said the day before. Perhaps we should not speak every day."
😂 https://t.co/TX4BHmXMxr
BREAKING : This is Belt Treatment 🔥
Journalist –– Trump targeted you again with personal remarks. Do you have anything to say?
🇫🇷 Macron –– 🔥"We are talking about war, civilians dying, economies suffering. What I heard is neither serious nor worthy of response. A world leader can't use language he is speaking"
Much needed call out
Not often I agree with stumbler but he’s bang on the money 💰 14 years of Tory sell out have left the nations defences hollowed out and Jenkins has the cheek to say he’s had 18 months to sort it out 😅
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer snaps at Tory MP Bernard Jenkin for suggesting his approach to defence "smacks of enormous complacency"
"This smacks of the fact that for years there was underinvestment by the last Government... honestly, 14 years of underinvestment"
Two major milestones on one landmark day in Rosyth.
Yesterday, we celebrated the Steel Cut of HMS Bulldog and the Rollout of HMS Active, marking significant progress across the Type 31 programme.
Watch the highlights from the day:
This is quite something to witness. HMS Active, the second of the Inspiration Class Type 31 Frigates, ventures out to meet the public for the first time from Babcock's Rosyth facility. It's the pinnacle of Scottish shipbuilding, marine engineering and craftsmanship
In the UK the PM who is not mentioned in the Epstein files is fighting for his future because he appointed someone who is mentioned.
Meanwhile, in the US, the person who is mentioned 38,000 times, and who sends out racist memes, is still President...