@SimonCalder Could the EU adopt UK into entry same way as Norway or CH nationals and we go through EU barriers .. can we join Schengen? What can you suggest as possible solution?
APPLEBAUM: Trump administration wants to do business with Russia, and war in Ukraine is an obstacle. They treat it like trivial problem that could be solved if Zelenskyy would just step aside.
It’s profound arrogance, ignorance, and hubris all wrapped into one. This is a really big war. It’s a war about European civilization, the same civilization they claim to care about. It’s about sovereignty.
Do Ukrainians not deserve sovereignty? This is illustrative of the deep shallowness of Trump administration and their inability to spend even five minutes trying to understand what these conflicts around the world are actually about.
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
So with a surface fleet of only 15 — most of which are in various stages of maintenance — why does the Royal Navy still have 40 ‘core’ Admirals (Rear Admiral and above)? Almost three per ship seems a bit excessive since each ship presumably has a Captain …
The French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle has arrived to protect the British Sovereign territory and Armed Forces base RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
If that doesn’t make you feel embarrassed to be British then nothing will.
Unforgivable @Keir_Starmer
Happy to be corrected by naval experts. But by my calculations the entire Royal Navy surface fleet of warships consists of:
Two aircraft carriers
Six Type 45 destroyers
Seven aging Type 23s
And of these 15 warships only three are currently active (soon to be four if HMS Dragon leaves port tomorrow.
In any sensible estimation of deployable capability we don’t really have a Navy, do we?
@ActionBrexit Now they say preparing air craft carrier… with what support ships? Which submarine support? Government now a laughing stock!
We have become Little Britain !!
@Nigel_Farage@SpencerGuard Don’t worry Labour have requisitioned HMS Belfast and they say once the mandatory consultants have done their enquiry to can be done - projected to cost £2 billion and fees by 2029 it should be ready for the health and safety inspection and diversity training period.
@daveatherton@afneil I gather they just commissioned Serco to prepare Hms Belfast for action again. They advised in should be ready in 2029 to sail to Iran after an extensive refit , health and safety checks and diversity training. Serco advised the project would come in less than HS2 / £50 billion
A brilliant explanation by @ZiaYusufUK about why Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s are true.
The scale and pace of uncontrolled immigration, from differing cultures that are alien to British values, has been damaging.
Labour & Tory MPs should be apologising, not Jim.