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Labour's taking no votes for granted? They’re taking it for granted that they’ll have nae votes.
ReplyDeleteRobin McAlpine touches rarely on Geopolitical issues, so his latest blog post is interesting.
ReplyDeleteHe examines the prime directive of the military under their own terms. There’s no point debating whether their philosophy is correct, question them on their performance to deliver under their own definitions, ie defence of the realm against foreign aggression.
Put aside the catastrophic failure in relation to the Ajax, Armoured Fighting Vehicle, that’s just routine middle management incompetence.
What about the strategic stuff? We have a fleet of nuclear submarines fitted with missiles for which we don’t have the launch codes. This was always a flaw, but now the threat to our geographical sovereignty is the entity holding the launch codes. This is a fundamental strategic blunder. Perhaps Trump is the Black Swan event, and that couldn’t be planned for, but we’re here now. Adjustments to strategy must be made, and made quickly.
We’ve two aircraft carriers which can’t function independently of the US Navy. They’re just lapdogs riding on their master’s coattales. Leaving aside the Falklands, this was always the case. The last time our aircraft carriers were used in anger was at the very end of WWII, in the sea of Japanese, where they (very ably) supported the US fleet.
The solution to failure proposed by the people who got us into this position is to divert even more resources into projecting power, ie not to increase spending on actual DEFENCE.
The Atlanticist politicians serve only the MIC.
9.56 Your comments are about English defence! Who are Scotland defending themselves from. Who are Scotland going to war with? Who will be the First Nation that conscription is forced on? Why does Scotland have Englands nuclear arsenal?
DeleteRobin McAlpine interesting? really? when and how and in which coffee shop in the west end did that happen?
DeleteHaven’t you heard. He’s a world statesmen according to him and his cat.
DeleteWhy the apparent sudden drop in RefUK support? What happened in the last week or so?
ReplyDeleteNigel’s good relations to President Trump were (arguably) an asset. His relations to Mad Emperor Trump are a liability.
Trump’s eye roams the globe looking for geo-strategic assets, like he’s playing a game of Risk.
After Greenland, we can expect the Panama Canal (either the Canal Zone, or the entire country of Panama if they object). After that why not the key to the Mediterranean, Gibraltar?
After that why not the key to the Antarctic, the Falklands, or perhaps more specifically, South Georgia (and he won’t take South Georgia without the Falklands)?
Nigel has no leverage over the Mad Emperor. Stephen Miller; Gríma Wormtongue, ripped from the page, and made flesh, is perhaps the only person who has Tump’s ear.
More in Common, Westminster voting intention, field work 10 - 13 Jan.
ReplyDeleteUK headlines; RefUK 10% lead over Tories, +2% week on week, bucking a putative trend. RefUK support remains static at 31%, Tories lost 2% to the Greens.
Scottish sub-sample (132)
Con 17%, Lab 16%, LibDem 8%, RefUK 27%, Green 4%, SNP 24%.
Nonsense numbers.
My friend texted me those figures while I was shoplifting. I got such a shock I dropped the bottle of Chanel I had lifted. I blame Nicola Sturgeon and all that Egypt stuff.
DeleteIs More in Common sponsored by reform or some other right wing unthinking tank?
ReplyDeleteIfS will be disappointed.
ReplyDeleteSo will Wee Stewie.
DeleteThe John Smith Centre, at the University of Glasgow, announce an upcoming, relaxed conversation, debate format between Deputy First Minister, Kate Forbes MSP, and Fraser Nelson of The Times.
ReplyDeleteKate is bowing out of Holyrood this year, to spend more time with her young family (a truthful statement for once). It would be interesting to see if she can secure perhaps a part time position, working from home. Someone of her standing, and experience would be a shoo-in for many of the managerial positions in the plethora of QUANGOs, and Scot Gov, funded third sector, and charity outfits (see predatory pederast, Patrick Grady, and other has-beens too numerous to list). I fear Kate’s ultra traditional, social beliefs will exclude her from such rewards.
Perhaps her contacts in the British American Project will prove more promising?