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I read elsewhere that there was a 13.3% turnout. I didn't even think it was possible to drive the vote so low.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a triple depressive whammy comprising politics in general, football, and the Murrell affair?
Eight, Type 83 Destroyers and five, Type 32 Frigates have been axed from the Military Industrial budget of the UK. The ships would have been built at BAE Systems in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteThe money will instead be reallocated to various drone projects. These will be built at locations let to be determined. Obviously, the infrastructure required for drone production is massively different from that of ships. They could be built anywhere. A new or existing facility in landlocked West Midlands for example with a local workforce adept at vehicle manufacture (since drones are more akin to cars than boats).
That is assuming that the drones could be manufactured in quantity at all. The supply chain is dependent on components which presently come exclusively from China, such as Rare Earth elements.
The decision to cancel the programme of Royal Navy replacement ships makes a mockery of the decision to bring British Steel, Scunthorpe under public ownership. It was only because of the capacity of Scunthorpe to make plate steel that it was saved from closure. The government steadfastly refuses to nationalise Port Talbot which is twice the size of Scunthorpe. Port Talbot makes only strip steel, and is therefore not a “strategic asset” in the way Scunthorpe can be portrayed to be.
DeleteWon't be long before the Attack of the Drones; maybe followed by Revenge of the Grith.
DeleteDrones being controlled by AI.
DeleteWhat could possibly go wrong.
"Drones of the world unite and throw off our colonial oppressors".
Sounds a bit like Andy Burnham.
Burnham probably keeps a note of when his neighbours leave their houses and come back. He's creepy.
DeleteI feel a bit sorry for the Alliance to Liberate Scotland guy who got 13 votes.
ReplyDeleteBarrheid Boy will still manage to put an optimistic spin on the result.
DeleteWow! Absolutely sensational!
ReplyDeleteThe British unionists will band together to vote for a Westminster candidate because they deem that parliament more important, and they don't care about their own local Scottish representation because they've no respect for Scotland, the country in which they live
ReplyDeleteThere are two things going on there, one, they're stupid, and two, they're really stupid
was the cancellation of the RN ships a cancellation of the ships during the vow or are we talking about other types of ships not to be built?
ReplyDeleteNo, the ones during the vow (after the ref) were the 5 Type 26 general purpose frigates, the other 8 of 13 originally planned being more expensive sub-hunters which are being built.
DeleteThese latest ones are the planned Type 83 replacements for the Type 45 air defence destroyers - though it turns out apparently the type 83 is not cancelled, just not getting more funding just yet. Design funding has been very low for them so far, and for some odd reason, they're a bit behind schedule ...
The Type 45 will probably be extended IMHO. And why not?