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Once upon a time, Britain had armed forces that could defend more than the southern half of the Grand Union canal in daylight hours.
We are, it seems, currently hunting down a Russian submarine which is in our waters.
Our "nuclear deterrent" policy means that we have only one way of doing this: launching ballistic missiles at civilian, military and political centres across Russia. The Russians will retaliate with their ballistic missiles and suddenly, for about three minutes, we will know where that fucking submarine has been hiding.
The hunt for this submarine is being conducted by a maritime support aircraft. A French one. Because throughout the centuries, it has been proven that relying on the French for your military activities is what we call in Hampshire "a fucking good idea".
Why are we hunting foreign submarines using an aircraft that lands for lunch between 11am and 4pm and doesn't fly at all during the weekends or when there is a Catholic saint listed on the calendar? No disrespect to the French military, but the only people on the planet I would want doing military shit for us less, would be the Belgians. Their response to a submarine in their waters would be to close the Brussels Metro and hide under a duvet.
Wasn't there a plan to replace the British-built Nimrod maritime support aircraft? Ah no. That was cancelled by the current government in 2010 after the previous government let the Nimrod replacement plans go over budget by £789 million. That will leave us with relying on a morning-only maritime coverage by Jacques, Pierre and Serge until such time as we can export 5,000 jobs to a US manufacturer of maritime support planes and get our own maritime support aircraft in about five years' time.
Tell me, what exactly do our politicians do when they are not filling in expense forms?
Can't we create a "political deterrent" that, in the event of a crisis or war, launches MPs and councillors into enemy territory to fuck up their military and defence capability?
We are, it seems, currently hunting down a Russian submarine which is in our waters.
Our "nuclear deterrent" policy means that we have only one way of doing this: launching ballistic missiles at civilian, military and political centres across Russia. The Russians will retaliate with their ballistic missiles and suddenly, for about three minutes, we will know where that fucking submarine has been hiding.
The hunt for this submarine is being conducted by a maritime support aircraft. A French one. Because throughout the centuries, it has been proven that relying on the French for your military activities is what we call in Hampshire "a fucking good idea".
Why are we hunting foreign submarines using an aircraft that lands for lunch between 11am and 4pm and doesn't fly at all during the weekends or when there is a Catholic saint listed on the calendar? No disrespect to the French military, but the only people on the planet I would want doing military shit for us less, would be the Belgians. Their response to a submarine in their waters would be to close the Brussels Metro and hide under a duvet.
Wasn't there a plan to replace the British-built Nimrod maritime support aircraft? Ah no. That was cancelled by the current government in 2010 after the previous government let the Nimrod replacement plans go over budget by £789 million. That will leave us with relying on a morning-only maritime coverage by Jacques, Pierre and Serge until such time as we can export 5,000 jobs to a US manufacturer of maritime support planes and get our own maritime support aircraft in about five years' time.
Tell me, what exactly do our politicians do when they are not filling in expense forms?
Can't we create a "political deterrent" that, in the event of a crisis or war, launches MPs and councillors into enemy territory to fuck up their military and defence capability?
