John Healey - Minister of Defence announces cuts across the three Services

[oowee]

12 minutes ago, Flashman said:

Shush. 

Pumping out dross in reply to every post does not make you appear wise.  It makes you look unemployed or employed by the State (little difference) and a Johnny No-Mates. 

You’ve delighted us all enough with your guff - don’t you have mates down the pub who are interested in your waffle.

Somehow, I doubt it…

🤣 🤣 

[Good shot?]

We will be ok, Lammy has said that the French are with us against Putin's threats to the UK.🤔

[old man]

6 minutes ago, Good shot? said:

We will be ok, Lammy has said that the French are with us against Putin's threats to the UK.🤔

Ah, good to know lamentable lammy is across things?

[London Best]

1 minute ago, old man said:

Ah, good to know lamentable lammy is across things?

Even better to know that the brave, loyal, trustworthy French are with us.

[Yellow Bear]

29 minutes ago, London Best said:

Even better to know that the brave, loyal, trustworthy French are with us.

Just like the Falklands

[oowee]

2 hours ago, London Best said:

Even better to know that the brave, loyal, trustworthy French are with us.

Better the EU than Tulsi Gabbard (Trump pick for National Intelligence Director) a  Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathiser who if confirmed would preclude intelligence sharing with US.

UK / EU defence pack here we come.

[old man]

2 hours ago, London Best said:

Even better to know that the brave, loyal, trustworthy French are with us.

Absolutely!

12 minutes ago, oowee said:

Better the EU than Tulsi Gabbard (Trump pick for National Intelligence Director) a  Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathiser who if confirmed would preclude intelligence sharing with US.

UK / EU defence pack here we come.

Just another lamentable situation?

[12gauge82]

23 hours ago, Flashman said:

Shush. 

Pumping out dross in reply to every post does not make you appear wise.  It makes you look unemployed or employed by the State (little difference) and a Johnny No-Mates. 

You’ve delighted us all enough with your guff - don’t you have mates down the pub who are interested in your waffle.

Somehow, I doubt it…

To each their own. Personally I enjoy reading oowees posts and having a bit of friendly jousting with him at times. 

[wisdom]

On 20/11/2024 at 22:45, Weihrauch17 said:

This 100%, this Governments priorities are truly obscene. Kill Pensioners, Bankrupt Farmers and threaten food security,  cut back Defence spending whilst goading Russia with Storm Shadows so they can give £14 Billion Annual Foreign Aid,  £12 Billion abroad to help with someone else's none existent Climate change and £30 Billion on GBE and the unproven and totally not needed Carbon Capture BS.  And they will make hundreds of thousands redundant with their budget and the insanity of Net Zero, happening on multiple fronts already.  Utterly mind boggling insanity.

Totally agree.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

53 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:

To each their own. Personally I enjoy reading oowees posts and having a bit of friendly jousting with him at times. 

You're in a small club there then.......................

[enfieldspares]

58 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:

To each their own. Personally I enjoy reading oowees posts and having a bit of friendly jousting with him at times. 

And so do I enjoy them. And everybody else's that posts here. Now what's that they say about opinions? That everybody has one...the same as everybody has an XXX...and that some opinions...like some XXXs...stink more than others?

Edited November 22 by enfieldspares

[12gauge82]

20 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

You're in a small club there then.......................

That's okay isn't it? We don't all have to agree all of the time and I think no less of anyone that has a different opinion to my own, providing they're respectful. 

[Vince Green]

We should always bear in mind that most defence spending ends up in somebody's pay packet. Whether that somebody is a soldier or a worker in one of the industries that supports the armed  services. All those workers pay tax or spend their wages in the shops where it goes back to the government as vat. It just goes round and round in the economy. Cost to the nation is zero.

Cutting the defence budget doesn't save the government any money. It just puts people out of work but the state then still has to support them.

 

Edited November 25 by Vince Green