moonraker

Your record on predicting, assessing , analysing ,military capabilities intentions and outcomes is woeful. I can't be bothered to trawl through the hundreds of posts on the subject just to provide evidence.

There are a number of factors that have created the woeful state of our armed forces. Primarily the defence cuts of successive Tory governments since 2010. They hollowed out many and removed entire capabilities in the 2010 Strategic Defence Review, it was neither strategic nor a review, simply an exercise in austerity. The corresponding manpower reductions and poor recruitment campaigns have left our forces woefully undermanned and unfit for purpose. Political dithering, interferenceand lack of understanding by politicians on major procurement projects is a significant contributor to overspends.

The how are we going to pay argument does not stack up. Post WWII the most radical government of modern times created the NHS and delivered multiple other social benefits. The USA new deal in the thirties was based on a government spending money “it didn’t have”. Provide your spending is focused on longer term infrastructure and social improvements it is an investment and you will get a return on it.

If you’re a twitcher there are some interesting species, not just penguins. The only place I have ever been where they had darts commentary on the radio, including the impromptu bar fight that broke out during the game. It is certainly a one off and if you are genuine world travel worth a visit. Don’t miss the Cathedral with the corrugated iron roof.

Yes but City have more money than Liverpool and make it soooo hard for them buying all the good players.

Yes, and I would recommend them. PM me for more info.

Wow just wow

And are entitled to be treated humanely and receive a fair and efficient hearing, shamefully neither of which this excuse for a government seems capable of doing.

You need to understand the difference between illegal immigration and asylum. The right wing love to use incorrect terminology to justify their illegal plans deliberately using illegal immigration and asylum as one and the same thing, another is saying foreign courts should not rule on UK matters, when the courts they are referring to are International Courts, i.e. courts within which the UK has equal representation to all the signatories of the agreements that set up the courts in the first place, they are not "foreign". Ironically International Courts were originally championed by UK governments including tory ones.

The thing is these prosecutions were private prosecutions totally in the gift of the post office. The CPS had no involvement in making the decision to prosecute. Given that the the evidence against the individuals came directly from the PO and the Software house and has been shown to be unsound and unsafe I fail to see how one can point the finger at the CPS. There are a number of "Organisations" who can bring such prosecutions, a hangover of Victorian public bodies charters, somewhat belatedly the Gov are talking about removing these arcahic rights.

Major difference was Adkins had had a whole season with the team, Martin is having to sort out the shitshow from last season.

So please can you expand on what the EU could have given us, we already had one of if not the best deal, what is that you 5hink we deserve more than the other countries and why?

Our Bath City loanee got MoM fire the Romans today, kept them in it with a string of Greta saves. Big difference in leagues but you never know😉

Where is this from, Sky reporting Saints have requested he play.

75% according to BBC, still irrelevant if we don’t convert it.

Tells us nothing

Dodd also played for Bath City, we purchased him from there.

It may be an “immutable fact” but it also a big assumption that the record matters to JWP. He has never seemed to me to be focused on glory hunting, of course I am sure he would love to get the record. The key is no sensible offers.

He is preimiership player, we are in the Championship if the chance him to return to Prem arises that is right for SFC that does not negate the service he has given to us. He will always be a Saint, is Mike Channon not a legend? JWP has been a shinning example of a loyal player.

Bit more high tech, especially the deployment system.

Correct, however the purpose was to stop high speed suicide / autonomous boats and nothing to do with refugees and asylum seekers boats.

Well, I don't see any great competence, efficiency or effectiveness from the the private sector. They have a monopoly and still they can't run it, only priority is dividends and bonuses. In public ownership ministers are directly responsible for performance. Thatcher's privatisation experiment with national infrastructure and utilities has failed, and we will pick up the bill while shareholders and senior executives count their winnings.

My God that man needs sectioning

If the choice is between an octogenarian Biden and a terminally narcissistic Trump then I’ll take Biden. He is not a cult, he is not a narcissist, he is not a liar (at least not in the Trump sense), he does not rely on the support of the dimmest least educated red neck gun touting weirdos the English speaking world possesses for legitimacy. It’s a poor choice, but sometimes that is the hand you are dealt, and sometimes that is the hand you created. Bless America!

Their ship numbers are a concern, however there is a big difference in having lots of kit and being able to maximise its potential. The USSR, and its successor have made numerous attempts to develop Naval Air power and failed. I am not complacent but judging a nations armed forces by numbers is fraught with problems. The real world is not top trumps.