tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post6152291696517112719..comments2023-10-14T13:18:37.330+01:00Comments on angels in marble: What Should the United Kingdom Contribute to the Defence of the West?hatfield girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-19347983285775761552011-01-31T10:51:13.635+00:002011-01-31T10:51:13.635+00:00Hats, yes it does.
In my opinion and in yours.
B...Hats, yes it does.<br /><br />In my opinion and in yours.<br /><br />But not, apparently, in the opinion of our ruling class, who will place anything - anything - on the altar of "ever-closer union".Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-75186709982963415352011-01-28T20:49:15.330+00:002011-01-28T20:49:15.330+00:00Yacht,
Doesn't the UK need a sensible defenc...Yacht, <br /><br />Doesn't the UK need a sensible defence policy, not a world role or expensive commitments to UNs and EUs and NATOs?hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-76996070886946889222011-01-28T20:46:46.948+00:002011-01-28T20:46:46.948+00:00'They are so over budget and so unsuitable. Hu...'They are so over budget and so unsuitable. Huge cost in keeping them.'<br /><br />Precisely Mr Q. Your words could be set in stone over every defence budgetted aircraft (as any Hatfield Girl knows). But there did seem to be a time when it was acepted that we had a smaller world role; under the last Labour regime the whole nonsense on stilts of projecting power across the globe seemed to start up again - Blair with his wars, brown with his saviouring and leading global economic governance.<br /><br />No wonder our defence industries never get the commercial contracts their inventiveness and skills could command - they're too busy building tax-payer-financed boys' toys for Labour escapees from the attic.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-61555230694764922202011-01-28T12:48:43.998+00:002011-01-28T12:48:43.998+00:00The only way it makes sense is for "our"...The only way it makes sense is for "our" forces and the "French" forces to be two parts of the same thing.<br /><br />Ring any bells, at all, does that?Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-53905159849278055042011-01-28T00:28:42.892+00:002011-01-28T00:28:42.892+00:00The Nimrods had to go.
See Lewis Page here.
http...The Nimrods had to go. <br />See Lewis Page here.<br /><br />http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/nimrod_scrappage/<br /><br />They are so over budget and so unsuitable. Huge cost in keeping them. <br />But why they haven't been replaced with something else is a bit of a mystery. Their 'overland' role is much exaggerated. A sort of flying telephone exchange.<br />But a dedicated anti submarine, long range reconnaissance aircraft would seem to be a necessity.<br />Mr Page disagrees saying that our helicopter frigates will do.<br />I doubt that. A submarine threat that knows our sea defence zone has a 200m radius will just operate at 300m.<br /><br />It looks like will be buying an American replacement. I expect that's already a deal made with the knowledge of the MOD. But for political reasons the coalition can't buy foreign and cut jobs at home. It will wait for a bit of a recovery and some tax receipts before it goes public.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.com