Is Starmer A Britaphobe?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2005900/HMS-Agincourt-achilles-rename-fury

What next? Rename Waterloo?

What a Pusillanimous wimp.

[Clone]

Haven't looked at the link but

 

YES

[Peter Pedant]

TTT at his best

any way why can't we hve NHS gas-meter? yay

[douglas9401]

A spokesman insisted: “We are proud of our nation’s rich military history and the many famous battles that the Royal Navy has played a part in.

“This process began under the previous government and any changes would be announced publicly in the usual way.”

[ToraToraTora]

come on dougie there is a pun there.....what's it going to be called instead?.... take your time....!

[Peter Pedant]

a name to keep the flame alight

I meant HMS Gas-meter. ( or Petticoat or HMS Fanny)

[douglas9401]

He's not a Royal Navy bigwig, he's a retired RN bigwig. For all we know he spends his days swigging rum and singing sea shanties until a tabloid phones for a few quotes.

[albaqwerty]

Changing it to Achilles who was killed by Paris is going to calm the French, not really,  surely?

[douglas9401]

Oh you are a one, alba. 😄

[Old_Geezer]

I don't know about him being a Britaphobe; but he's giving the appearance of being a craven and contemptible surrender monkey.

[douglas9401]

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24593xe8no

They may change the name to Armadas R Us.

Still, Grant Shapps eh?

[jourdain2]

Agree with O_G.  Agincourt is historical... how far back are we supposed to go to avoid offending anyone?

[douglas9401]

At least 570 AD.

[youngmafbog]

The answer to your question is YES.

[Canary42]

We have had some outstanding achievements when collaborating with the French (Concorde, Chunnel) so respecting their sensitivities is no bad thing.  Certainly not a reason for the silly name-calling which the Tory Supporters seem to indulge in so much. 

[youngmafbog]

And the French will accomodate us in return?

I very much doubt it.

[douglas9401]

Surely we are above being riled by the Gauls and their odd ways though.

[vulcan42]

What's next, banning Shakespeare's Henry V?

[ToraToraTora]

The firesides have always been odd. They burned Joan of arc for wearing trousers now she is their patron saint!

[Atheist]

Someone needs to swot up their history.

 

[DTCwordfan]

Just goes along with Trump's Gulf of America and I see Musk has suggested that the English Channel/La Manche should be renamed the George Washington Channel. Idiots, all of them.