Britania Rules The Waves?

[Togo]

Not now. We need the French. Who scrapped Nimrod?
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/britain-calls-in-french-to-hunt-russian-sub-lurking-off-scotland/ar-BBnjf81?li=AA9SkIr&ocid=spartandhp

[SirOracle]

//Rotrocop and SNP and Corbyn want to scrap Trident as well ?? ??

Regarding the SNP - we want to scrap it as does the "Scottish Labour Party "

If you lot want to keep it then move it to the Thames.

[DTCwordfan]

read Henry Kissinger's 'Diplomacy' for a wonderful account of how the Europeans shagged each other, inc Britain dipping its oar in....through to the 1st WW, the epitome of late 20thC politics, the message being to keep a guarded position but when the moment strikes, then let the guns blaze. And this maybe just one such moment now.

It's brilliantly written - and when you think about the way he slurred his words, the man is a genius when it comes to his pen.

[Gromit]

Whooosh, missing the point.

Atlantic Conveyor was a sitting target because it did not have any adequate defences. It was a merchant ship built not built for a combat role. We didn't have the right ships for the job because we couldn't afford them because we were paying for a very expensive white elephant that we will never deploy successfully.

[Togo]

dt I was reading that the year my daughter was born. She is now 31yrs old. The book has not aged. Don't frighten the children.

[Togo]

// that we will never deploy//
But we need the nutters to think we will if they are mad enough.

[Gromit]

Togos,
Argies, ISIS know we won't use Trident. They are the people physically attacking us and they are not detered. Time to get felt tip pens out eh?

[DTCwordfan]

sorry Togo, now what was the capital of the old Czechoslovakia....? Now that was that Zbigniew Brzezinski as security adviser?????

[Togo]

//Brzezinski is currently Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies,//
// His son, Mark Brzezinski, is the current United States Ambassador to Sweden//
//Brzezinski belongs to the realist school of international relations,//

Brzezinski has been there from day 1. Policy on how to undermine Russian policy in Afghanistan and had personal and close experience of both Nazi and Stalinist ways of conducting 'world affairs'. Polish nobility.

[Gromit]

Who scrapped Nimrod?

In May 2010, the newly elected Conservative led Government announced the Strategic Defence and Security Review of the Armed Forces. The UK government announced the cancellation of the Nimrod MRA4 on 19 October 2010 and consequently that RAF Kinloss, the intended base for the Nimrod fleet, would be closed.

[Quizmonster]

It was a great comfort to me in 2011, when Cameron decided to send the RAF to bomb Libya...and just look how well that's turned out...to hear that we had an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean.
Sadly, it was behind a tug and on its way to a Turkish breaker's yard!

[Svejk]

mikey4444 /// Britain...without an aircraft carrier ?

You couldn't make it up !
19:21 ///

Really, Mikey??

[vetuste_ennemi]

Corbyn is a self-confessed hater of his country. How convincing is Cameron as a defender of it?

[shoota]

Two aircraft carriers are being built as we speak (or type....)
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/the-equipment/ships/future-ships/aircraft-carrier