Re: Punching well above his weight and getting battered. nm Archived Message
Posted by Si on February 16, 2019, 10:59 am, in reply to "Punching well above his weight and getting battered. nm"
Take your point, Dan - but is he actually punching above his weight? I mean, how much weight and sense do we see coming from his counterparts in other parties? Take this for example: Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Jamie Stone questioned the announcement that the HMS Queen Elizabeth would be deployed to the Pacific region. New Royal Navy aircraft carrier HSM Queen Elizabeth ‘well protected’ from Russia threat “Gavin Williamson is heating up UK defence rhetoric, something which may well be seen as provocation by Beijing. This comes following years of hollowing-out of Britain’s military capabilities, with the British Army now at the smallest it has been in decades,” he said. “Do we really have the capacity at the moment to send this ship over to showboat? Stone doesn't merely fail to notice that Williamson's bellicose remarks do not in any way amount to 'defence rhetoric' - rather, his remarks are singularly and insanely offensive - Stone simply avers that the Uk is not ready yet! Well that's not too distant a cousin of Fallon's demented notion that the Uk will soon be sufficiently tooled-up to take on Russia! Just shows the extent of the martial grip on the moronic minds of those that thrust themselves forward to (mis)lead us.
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