Thomas Riley

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@Flattliner @Humanlty1o1 Pretty irrelevant given that there was a 10% rise compared with years on either side....

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@TonyHenderson01 I'm trying to remember how many parties Farage has led that no longer exist anymore. Given that he used to work for "Russia Today" now banned as Russian Propaganda and given the unqualified disaster of brexit, I can't imagine why anyone would vote for his party.

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@law71419 @benonwine @BigMcD Pakistan is not anywhere near as rick as britain.

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@NurseStandard Good god they're awful.

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@LighthouseBilly @smithfreel @DaveKent101 They're not here yet though, they've been in development/talked about for 28 years (since 1998 FSC). So "plans to replace" means absolutely nothing.

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@smithfreel @DaveKent101 Leaving the EU has cost the country far far more than £1Billion and that's why we can't afford it....

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@mdear @_HenryBolton @Keir_Starmer @JohnHealey_MP Yes NATO is cooperation, it's still extremely embarrassing that Great Britain cannot put a warship to sea to monitor a vessel just off our coast, absolutely disgraceful from a country with such a naval tradition that should be contributing *towards* collective maratime defense.

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@AndyCade6 @Robbie_Reasons @lukey1965 Yes you have had breixt. This is exactly what brexit was always going to be.

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@catturd2 Pretty sure most of this is a Russian disinformation campaign either directly or via manipulation.

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@DuncanBullivant @afneil @TiceRichard Cameron didn't finess anything the 2010 SDR destroyed the armed forces.

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@afneil Not to mention we're selling supporting tankers because we can't pay their crews enough.

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@TheNorfolkLion Lets face it the US wasn't there in 1914, 1939 and 1956 either, the idea that the UK can always rely on the US is ridiculous.

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@Town5983 @DrChrisParry @PaulTaylorIeng @Keir_Starmer @JohnHealey_MP Did you miss that HMS Queen Elizabeth steamed 26000 miles, went halfway around the world and visited 40 countries in 2021?

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@DrChrisParry @Keir_Starmer @JohnHealey_MP Conservative defence review 1981. HMS Hermes to be decomissioned as surplus to requirements. HMS Invincible to be sold to Australia. 3 more carriers decomissioned by the conservative government in 2011. Plus the T45s problems not fixed in 14 years and no other ships built.

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@davebucca @ToonDazza @Keir_Starmer The drone was launched by hezbollah, it would make no sense for israel to fire a drone at a UK miltiary base.

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@ToonDazza @Keir_Starmer To be fair you don't need an aircraft carrier to protect an Airbase, rather obviously. the real question is why isn't the airbase able to protect itself.

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@Euro_toff @Alexarmstrong Regan didn't want to alienate the South American countries (although alot of them were actually not happy with Argentina anyway) chille obviously and Brazil. America has the monroe doctrine which whilst it didn't directly apply would have made it politically difficult.

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@Nassos83 @Euro_toff Not really Britain already had AIM-9Js, Britain stole AIM-9Ls from NATO stocks and then ordered replacements from the US....

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@Euro_toff @Alexarmstrong Because Argentina had prepared to attack Chille in 1979 and was planning to attack them after the Falklands.

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@_HenryBolton Funnily enough 6 destroyers can't do the job of 8, which were supposed to do the job of 12.... with better systems that were then never actually fitted. SDR does not include anything about land based ballistic missile defence, for cyprus, RN ships or the UK.