Starmer may have the misfortune to be in power when multiple mistakes made by previous administrations start coming home to roost. The state of the Royal Navy is the current one, but you're righ… (View Post)

Warships require a fair bit of maintenance, but the RN's availability rates are so terrible because there isn't enough money. If a ship needs major maintenance there will often not be enoug… (View Post)

The US bases in the UK are legally RAF bases. If Starmer gave the order the army could turn up and park a couple of Warrior IFVs on the runway. Not a damn thing the USAF could do about it. Trump woul… (View Post)

Starmer is the kind of person who will consider whether they should call a meeting with the aim of discussing the potential for looking into the possibility of making a decision on a course of action… (View Post)

They're all guilty when it comes to defence. The decisions to drop the Type 45 buy from 12 hulls to 8 and then 6 - which was ill-advised at the time, and now looks monstrously stupid - were done… (View Post)