Perhaps there is a case for a smaller navy. Defending maritime trade is the major justification and the world is relatively peaceful. Aircraft carriers are useful for force projection but shocking expensive. But control the purse strings and control the navy. Simple isn't it? Chatham naval dockyard was thriving once. It turned out well trained apprentices once. Now it is dead. Portland is gone or going. Portsmouth is much reduced. We cannot even defend our own fisheries from foreigners due to Edward Heath's treason in giving them to Europeans to rape and raped they have been. Heath was a good enough politician to know how to use post dated cheques. So is Brown. Chickens will come home to roost after he is out of politics and the money is wasted.
Join the navy today? I wouldn't want a son of mine anywhere near it. Update:- In fact it is even worse. Lewis Page, late of the Royal Navy explains in his book. See:-
Lions, Donkeys
and Dinosaurs
By Lewis Page is a first rate book and
strategic review. He tells us that the men are over worked and under paid while
hundreds of very senior officers do little or nothing except demand more
expensive and useless toys for their old regiments.
Spin and silence at the end of the special relationship
[ 3 December 2005 ]
We used to be told about our special
relationship with America. Perhaps it didn't mean too much but now it means a
whole lot less. Blair is buying inferior European kit at humungous prices which
is incompatible with American systems. Americans are restricting our access to
their research because they think it will be passed on to Europe. Meanwhile the
Jews get access. Theirs is a very special relationship; that of blackmailer and
the blackmailed.
This stands for all three services. We need them all.
