Tim

🇬🇧 Retired Chartered Engineer & Director, IT Management Consulting. Worked across UK,EU,ME & US. Sailor with more enthusiasm than talent. Proud Dad & Grandad.

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@PrfChrisPainter @ElizabethBangs @Channel4News If the answer is @AndyBurnhamGM then the question is seriously misaligned with the UK’s needs.

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@TomTugendhat @JohnHealey_MP This administration has failed UK defence. So did the last one that you were part of. So did the one before that, and every govt back 30y.

No Parliamentary cohort ever pushed back. Everyone currently in politics is complicit.

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@JamesCleverly There’s more time being spent on defence of the budget than on defence of the realm. This government needs to get its act together.

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@TimesRadio @afneil @KateEMcCann @StigAbell £9bn doesn’t constitute ‘plenty of money’, and time is also a serious constraint.

This government t is stuck in a cycle of paralysis by analysis.

If it doesn’t shift to a policy centred on JFDI then it won’t matter how much money there is there’ll be no time to re-arm.

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@jaglancy No, you’ve misunderstood; it’s a typo. The document that will be published was always going to be @UKLabourI’s “Deferred Investment Plan”.

Easy mistake to make.

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@PrfChrisPainter Let’s not pretend that large gangs of thugs riot spontaneously. They’re a means to an end. The question is only ever “whose means and what end”. Let’s start the conversation again from there.

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@NavyLookout The reality is that UK either funds deterrence, or it funds war, and no political fantasy can create option 3.

The problem is that this govt talks about “deferring” far more than “deterring”.

If defence doesn’t become priority 1 then very soon priority 2 won’t really matter.

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@charliehparker So Healey is still playing fantasy defence & ignoring the military?

The bottom line is that we either fund deterrence, or we fund war, & no amount of political fantasy can create option 3.

Govt procrastination both weakens UK forces & sends a dangerously irresponsible message.

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@BBCPolitics DIP fantasies aren’t news.

The critical story is govt repeatedly diverting funds so that half the Navy is tied up awaiting M&R, Army vehicles can’t do their job, RAF has too few aircraft to defend UK, ammunition stocks are too low to fight & forces manpower is still shrinking.

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@RBG_Rollcall @DrChrisParry There are capitalists and socialists with remarkably similar views on globalism and immigration, yet neither would admit an affinity between them.

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@Tony_Diver @TomCotterillX @Telegraph The bottom line is straightforward. The UK either funds deterrence or it funds war. That’s it. No amount of political fantasy can create option 3.

The question isn’t what programmes the treasury will fund. It’s where the treasury will get the money to fund them all.

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@haynesdeborah “Strategic Defence Refresh” is a euphemism for “Strategic Defence decimation”.

@UKLabour has an elected PM with a committed set of priorities. But it’s priority is to usher the unelectable into No10 through the back door, to promote the indefensible.

An absolute disgrace.

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@nicholadrummond The big issue is France’s carrier requirement. The UK should already be thinking about its own; by the time either of these programmes delivers anything useful the F35 will have gone the way of the dodo.

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@jmsltd1 @AdamKinzinger @tryingattimes Sounds about right.

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@lordofintent @David__Osland @UKLabour Oil crisis, 3 day week, winter of discontent, Rail strike, Coal strikes, red Robbo & 500 BL strikes, Steel strike, stagflation, 3M unemployed, £ devaluations, 25% inflation, 17% mortgage rates, 400% house price rise.

No thank you.

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@speedyjerry @Gianl1974 @DAGToddBlanche @AAGDhillon Perverts share perversions not politics.

Powerful perverts protect each other because when one falls the house of cards collapses.

Political enablers have used the power of the state to protect perverts without a single whistleblower. Why; what’s the story that can’t be told?

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@Gianl1974 @AndertonJohn The Epstein files just need to be released in accordance with the law. That includes the huge quantities of surveillance video/audio that the FBI already admitted it has (or had).

Hard to believe that any privately held evidence hasn’t already been released after all this time.

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@GBX_Press @SteveBN1 Isn’t that the law anyway?