Something rather jolly today. Mrs Saxe Coburg otherwise known as the queen decided to make her old man the lord high admiral of the fleet now that he is 90.
This could be a bit dodgy as old Phil the Greek was in the navy a while and might fancy throwing his weight around.
If he was to wander down to Portsmouth he might wonder where all the ships were.
A trip down to Plymouth might be an excuse to admire the massive boom constructed so the whole fleet could berth there some time back.
He might have to shuffle about a bit to find some ships though.
The fleet is now smaller than it was when another Liz was on the throne, smaller than it has been forever in fact.
There is one carrier but of course no planes as the Harrier fleet has been grounded .
So when we decided to get all heavy with Libya we "didn't need" carriers but actually delivered a lot less at greater cost than France who deployed oh yes an aircraft carrier.
So even inside their jingoistic militarism this shower make no sense.
Of course this country has carriers in the pipeline two of them, one of which will never see service and the other will sail without oh yes aircraft because we won't have any.
But an aircraft carrier is supposed to have, ohh never mind I am obviously not bright enough
And the final irony, is that carriers need to be part of a carrier group of support and escort ships which of course we cannot put together as we have sold everything else to pay for the carriers.
Oh, and of course Trident, the most pointless weapon ever.
My God I hope they are not letting the high admiral anywhere near those rockets....
R
This could be a bit dodgy as old Phil the Greek was in the navy a while and might fancy throwing his weight around.
If he was to wander down to Portsmouth he might wonder where all the ships were.
A trip down to Plymouth might be an excuse to admire the massive boom constructed so the whole fleet could berth there some time back.
He might have to shuffle about a bit to find some ships though.
The fleet is now smaller than it was when another Liz was on the throne, smaller than it has been forever in fact.
There is one carrier but of course no planes as the Harrier fleet has been grounded .
So when we decided to get all heavy with Libya we "didn't need" carriers but actually delivered a lot less at greater cost than France who deployed oh yes an aircraft carrier.
So even inside their jingoistic militarism this shower make no sense.
Of course this country has carriers in the pipeline two of them, one of which will never see service and the other will sail without oh yes aircraft because we won't have any.
But an aircraft carrier is supposed to have, ohh never mind I am obviously not bright enough
And the final irony, is that carriers need to be part of a carrier group of support and escort ships which of course we cannot put together as we have sold everything else to pay for the carriers.
Oh, and of course Trident, the most pointless weapon ever.
My God I hope they are not letting the high admiral anywhere near those rockets....
R
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he would enjoy a whizz-bang, wouldn't he!!
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