I am not usually in favour of us fighting wars in the Middle East. I do think the only way to deter Iran who see us as an enemy and regularly attack us one way or another is to provide strong defence and to help destroy their aggressive forces. It is almost unbelievable that there has been no naval ship going to the Eastern Mediterranean. Our two fairly new aircraft carriers are both in UK ports. None of the 6 destroyers were available to send to protect our air base in Cyprus either before hostilities or when fighting broke out. One destroyer is crewed and ready but Ministers decided it was more important to send it to an Arctic exercise than to divert it to the real thing. Don’t they know there is a war on?
Surely they should have sent more air and some naval power to the Med weeks ago when it was obvious there were tensions that could boil over?
Shouldn’t they require better planning of deeper maintenance to avoid the service loss of too many ships at the same time?
The government’s punk lawyer approach makes life impossible. Sloppy law has left them in limbo on the disastrous planned give away of Diego Garcia. Threatening old soldiers with yet another review of long ago IRA troubles is unfair and puts people off joining the army.
Meanwhile the government promises extra money to repair holes in our defences, but this is too little too late , sometime never money.Will no Minister rebuild our defences? Will no Minister lead our forces in a proud way, ensuring they are available for action when needed? Starmer’s failure to act against Iran is shaming our country.
March 7, 2026
the poor quality procurement of defence assets and services is a big part of the problem. the failure to move towards drone and anti drone world. the massive hidden losses and screw ups in the nuclear weapons endeavour. the waste on inter services rivalry and duplication. incestuous way the same people keep screwing up defence projects, forced by the way SC works, takes too long for anyone from outside defence to get. massive effort on failures of DEI crap, like open discrimination against white working class males, adverts that show British soldiers getting prayer mats out mid battle, and other such nonsense. badly led, badly prioritised, no vision.
March 7, 2026
Alk part of the master plan. As we’ve seen with Chagis and Gibraltar, giving away our assets to weaken the country.
There is unlimited budget to keep Importing the third world, the majority of which would form a fifth column if the odure hit the fan.
We really must rid ourselves of these anti British charlatans in Westminster before there’s nothing left to salvage.
Traitorous doesn’t do justice describing these people.
March 7, 2026
Starmer’s failure to act against Iran is shaming our country.
And we all know why he doesn’t want to act is because of a certain voter he doesn’t want to upset 🤔but he doesn’t give a tosh about Cyprus but at least they have Italy, Spain, France and others to send naval vessels to protect Cyprus after Iranian strike, but Mr Jellyfish just fiddles like Nero when Rome burnt
March 7, 2026
Good Morning,
Chagos, UK’s most influential politian of the last 20 years is presently the guest of the President of the USA, like him or not, he’s the one fighting for the good of this country, most of the others are ineffectual gas bags, doing more harm than good.
March 7, 2026
Correctl Peter, live him or loathe him Farsge is a real patriot and probably our only chance.
March 7, 2026
I’m not in favour of us being involved in war with Iran, but if we do such a thing at least we ought to do it well. You can’t be half-commited to waging war; spin and PR are weapons to dominate public opinion but they count for nothing on the battlefield.
Starmer has not followed his Party’s instincts here (or perhaps his own) and like so many British leaders, gone along with the US. He can’t have it both ways. My guess is the prevarication affected our military planning or at least the adoption of military plans.
Stepping back, we’re involved in a totally unnecessary war and have made ourselves – quite literally – a target. The war is unpopular here (50:30 against) and the US 56:44 against) for a number of good reasons. The US has lost its way and we should reassess the postwar “special relationship”.
March 7, 2026
Starmers labour government, and that is an exageration of terms, is on performance since taking office, anti British and the british people. The very latest EU greasing action is to sell out Gibralta. Add up all they have done since taking office, and any reasonable judgement would deem them traiterous. They govern for what they imagine are the interests of labour, not the United Kingdom. Even what they saw as their sectarian muslim vote is fast abandoning them. May is our first real opportunity to begin their demise, take it before the damage they are intent on becomes irrevocable.