Yes Robert is right. It doesn't matter that you have the carriers unless you have all the other ships you need to go along with them to provide the anti-aircraft and anti-submarine screens. We h… (View Post)

Lidl yesterday was well stocked with Tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. I didn't buy any as I don't eat imported fruit and veg that can be grown here. So I eat seasonally (apart from the occa… (View Post)

You do realise that the size of their navy is pretty much immaterial given they wouldn't be the ones trying to mount a recapture 8000 miles away? What mattered in 1982 was our ability to get men… (View Post)

I am sorry but you really are deluded. What we did in 1982 was extraordinary but we could do it now. We simply don't have the ships. As an example in 1982 we sent 8 destroyers and 16 frigates as… (View Post)

The UK does not have an army of 153,000. That is the total size of our armed forces - Army, Navy and Airforce - including reservists. Our regular army is just over 80,000 and there are another 30,000… (View Post)