@robprogressive We’ve been using Telepass in Italy - toll roads and most significant car parks - all automated. One app. No need to buy a ticket at the point of entry/exit.
@PVHaltonOBE US warships anchored in the Solent routinely maintain a cordon using their cutter. Basic security in this day and age. I skipped racing yachts in the channel for over 20 years. Always a good idea to give bigger (and especially warships) ships plenty of space!
@PolitlcsUK The yacht crew claim they altered course by 2 degrees. That’s not enough to signal to a warship that you understand their instruction and intend to keep clear. People citing IRPCS (ColRegs) without context have no idea. I’ve made over 100 channel crossings by yacht.
@gregbagwell What is a resigning issue is having to say to the SofS and PM that you can no longer afford to train or arm the soldiers committed to the defence of UK and in support of NATO. You cannot just go along with the make believe if you have any integrity.
@larisamlbrown I could see Dan Jarvis accepting some significant Dixie y savings - which should mean reducing the size of the civil service and MoD infrastructure to more accurately reflect the size of the Armed Forces - but the Trade Unions won’t let him do that, so more capability will go.
A reminder of the current OrBat for 1st Division
1 DRS (still forming but probably- 1x Cav Regt, 1x MRLS & 1x LG Regts
4 Lt Mech Bde- 1x Lt Cav & 6x Lt Inf Btn
7 Lt Mech Bde- 1x Lt Cav & 5x Lt Inf Btn
Div Eng Group/102 Log Bde- Enough Eng/Log units for 1x Bde
Make it make sense.
@gregbagwell No self respecting CGS could agree to deploy troops without adequate protection and equipment in today’s battlespace. If they did, they’d be marching soldiers to certain death and answerable for the consequences.
@PolymarketIntel President Trump surely cannot be that stupid he’d allow Iran to do this? Please reassure me he didn’t start a war to allow Iran to raise funds to wage another war…
@edwinhayward Not sure about your consensus. I voted to remain. A lot more should and could have been done to take advantage of the opportunities available outside the EU, but I’m not at all convinced that the price of rejoining would now be worth paying.