fatuouspauper.bsky.social
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Absolutely this
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They're still deluding themselves with talk of $8,000 stimulus cheques
Then they'll blame the democrats and say they sabotaged Trump, just like the Brexiters insist it's all the remainers fault and we've never actually had Brexit
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Etc.
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Have you tried magnesium supplements? Maybe a coincidence but I've been sleeping much better since taking it
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Not Wehrabovington surely?
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If they make flowers, you haven't done it wrong 🙂
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It's a pleasure, I love pruning. It's like sculpting a living thing
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Bonfire Of The Quangos has been tried and failed
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Home insurance premiums in Godstone rn
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Banning online sales will destroy small businesses like this
katto.shop
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Pfft.. bureaucrats
/S
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"Boejing" sounds like an airliner you'd buy off Temu
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Needs moar turrets
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It's all Greek to me
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On the contrary, which is why trashing capability for short term financial gain in so objectionable
The LPD's are never going to be replaced, are they?
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You said:
"An industrial dispute with Civil Servants is totally implausible. Civil Servants don't obstruct government. They enable it."
Do you agree that there is indeed an industrial dispute with the RFA that Labour have proved incapable of resolving?
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I eagerly await Healy's new orders to replace the Waves, and Albion & Bulwark
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Just as well we have plenty of time and money, and there are no unhinged dictators threatening war in Europe while the US is betraying us then 😵💫
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So the RFA aren't undertaking industrial action and they aren't experiencing a recruitment and retention crisis?
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ETA, I don't really believe axing a significant proportion of the RFA is because of a lack of anything other money, or a Labour government's inability to resolve an industrial dispute with Civil Servants
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Buy stuff from someone else, preferably with an agreement to onshore some tech/manufacturing
The Poles seem to be managing this kind of thing pretty well
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It's fine to scrap old stuff provided it's being replaced.
But it's not being replaced, is it?
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Great to see the lost capability is already being replaced 😃
Oh...
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Much disappoint
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I wouldn't believe a word of the Torygraph, but this wouldn't surprise me. I'd be more surprised if they actually went to 2.5%, rather than actively diminishing our capabilities
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Fucking hell
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What happened?
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Wasn't Valentine production kept online due to demand from the Soviets?
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The bit about having to keep Convenanter production going or lose the labour to other areas of the economy was
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Got his PhD thesis 👍
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Stares back in "unable to engineer a fan"
BTW, I think he'd agree with you on the matter of tactical incompetence rather than bad tanks being the main cause of British armoured woes. IIRC, he says as much in his A13 Cruiser Mk IV book
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Its the unexpected bollock washing that puts me off automatic flushing
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I'm sure GrokEIS will be a magnificent substitute!
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Good news indeed, but will believe it when I see it...
Really Starmer just needs to get his big boy pants on and say "Sorry folks, buts it tuppence on the income tax to defend the realm"
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Yeah, Regia Marina in general is under appreciated in the historiography
Their fleet was relatively modern and they fought their ships with considerable dash and daring
They were a major headache and achieved naval supremacy for a short while in the Med
Worthy adversaries!
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Probably why Patton took three months to capture Metz
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Us Brits have been (quite unfairly) running down the Italians in the Second World War for ages
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I went in there a few weeks ago for the first time in ages. It was like stepping into a third world country.
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Nice
The bonkers thing is that most of the problems with Crusader were things you'd think are relatively easy to fix - air filters and a fan drive
Apparently beyond the wits of Nuffield though
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Interesting comment on air filters, which was arguably the single biggest defect on Crusaders
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I watched it live, it was enthralling
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As Woody says, its amazing that PM Knight can speak for an hour and a quarter about tanks without ever once mentioning armour or guns