princeofsuburbia

To be honest, I'm a miserable old git.
I make stuff from wood.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@EdwardJDavey Ed Davey's mind has left the building.

[Tactical Tom 🇺🇸 @tgdesrosier]

I've been beating up on UK's lack of an effective Navy recently and have duly received the usual rage-posts from indignant UK subjects with no particular expertise.

Let me lay it out:
- UK is an island nation, meaning she cannot survive unless she has unimpeded access to ocean-based trade routes. Food, Fuel, you name it, must arrive from sea. And as UK learned in two world wars, these sea lines of communication are exceedingly vulnerable.

- UK has 14 overseas territories located worldwide, in virtually every ocean and region, from the South Atlantic, to the Carribean, to the Indian Ocean. And as the UK learned in the Falklands, these territories must be protected. Even as I write this, Another dispute is blooming over the Falklands. And if this ended up in another war, the outcome might not be advantageous to the UK. And unlike the 1st Falkland War, I doubt the USA would be as helpful.

- So now we discuss what the UK has available to protect their sea lines of communication and all these territories... You have "on-paper," 11 combatants: 2 carriers + 6 Type 45 destroyers + 5 Type 23 frigates. In addition you have 4 SSBNs (not useful unless there's a nuclear war), and 6 Astute Class SSNs. And of these "paper-tiger," less than 1/2 of your surface vessels are operational, and perhaps only 1 SSN could manage to get underway.

That's it. An otherwise great nation with worldwide vital interests, possessing a fictional Navy pitted against world powers who don't particularly like you, meanwhile the only useful ally the UK had (The USA), has been thoroughly pissed off by your Labor government's lack of courage when we needed them in Iran.

Consider this an intervention, kind of like talking a drunk out of his car keys. Look - I Iove the UK, but please do better.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@afneil Damage control from a heartless hateful person.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@adamboultonTABB Damage control.

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

When debating the utter spin-riddled nonsense that is @UKLabour DIP, the status-crushing weakness of UK’s forces and @UKLabour general view of how to provide bogus “national security” on the cheap, it is worth reflecting on this from Nietzsche:

“Nature does not punish the evil, it punishes the weak."

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@Keir_Starmer Through stricter application of process.

And less defence spending

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@afneil @YouTube Hard to pass moral judgement when you're working for the organisation that published his daughter's address.

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

Well observed and well put. Dan Jarvis represents a “shifty weasel who would do anything to progress his own career”…

As is obvious from the pathetically late, underfunded and inadequate Defence Investment Budget, and the resignations of their two Ministers before its release @UKLabour have totally failed to take defence of the UK seriously and are hoping that (a) the faux-intense, perma-squinting, ex-very junior officer Jarvis will be able to hide that and (b) the defence ‘chiefs’, (already back doing cheesy social media posts of medal-laden parades, and scripted speeches) will not resign over the utter nonsense that they have presented to the country as a ‘defence plan’.

They are probably hoping too that the media and political spotlight will soon move from defence and its hapless lapdog leadership to another issue that they can ‘control’ better.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@thinkdefence Sadly, no you are not.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@friendschurches Easily my favourite site on X. Keep up the excellent work.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

This is the City Barge pub in Chiswick right now. What do you notice? It’s 3pm and they’re open. It’s a sunny day. Yes, that’s right; they have had to remove all of the tables and chairs outside. They have had to destroy their own business. Why? Because Rick Rowe, a Green Party councillor on Hounslow council, who lives very, very, very close to this pub and complains about it almost daily, has banned all three pubs here on strand on the Green Chiswick, from having outside tables. I can only assume he hates pubs, hates business and hates the British way of life. This would usually be buzzing with people enjoying their afternoon. However, they’re the wrong sort of people for Rick.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@johnmcfadian @JohnHealey_MP Meanwhile creates border dispute in East giving reason to invade.
Western nations struggle to help in East as they are busy with their own domestic dramas.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@johnmcfadian @JohnHealey_MP Won't be like that. Russia parks a destroyer or 2 off major port (they'realready there) and stops any shipping, meanwhile a civilianship drags its anchor through gas pipes, data and electrical cables in N Sea and E channel.

[Danny conlin @dannyconlin76]

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[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@thinkdefence Nets cost money!
And they're not sexy techy things.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The party is over @BorisJohnson.

Resign.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@RAF_Luton I can forgive the little mistakes over irrelevant things but this......
To far, to far by far.

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@robox1234 @TonyWard867811 Clearly a bot . Be aware!!

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Here come the cliches…..
‘This is not who we are as country’ ‘this has no place in british society’ and the rest….

Aptly done
@JewishNewsUK

[princeofsuburbia @williamjdavid70]

@labourlewis Concerning that someone so close to power would be so ignorant.