Not content with giving our sovereignty away to the EU in the reset and our money away to many foreign governments, EU students and migrants, the government is busily undermining our defences.
They want to give away the freehold of our important base at Diego Garcia to a non nuclear state friendly with China. This naval base is crucial to defending trade routes in the Middle East and Indian ocean.
They failed to defend our base in Cyprus leading to demands from Cyprus and the EU that we reconsider that base, crucial to our interests in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.
They have negotiated a Treaty with the EU giving them powers over the Gibraltar border and airport, a crucial part of our air and naval base there.
They have watched as Ukraine has shown the importance of drones to modern warfare without putting in UK capacity to build and use drones in our own armed forces.
They have seen the growing potency of fast ballistic missiles in the Middle East without strengthening our home defences against these. Why is there no plan and no urgency to defend these islands against drone and missile attack?
When need arose to provide air defence cover for shipping and bases in the Middle East they had no naval vessel available to do the job. Most of our frigates and destroyers were undergoing slow maintenance at the same time with no thought for the need to have any of our 13 frigates and destroyers available to defend us. Our two carriers also stayed at home. Why? What ‘s the point of a navy with plenty of admirals and no ships at sea?
Two recent wars show the need to rearm . Our Nato commitments require us to rearm. Where is the defence plan? Where is the money? Where above all is the sovereign will even to defend our islands?
March 26, 2026
Where has been the genuine opposition from the Opposition?
March 26, 2026
Alk part of the great reset. We are slowly being disarmed and destroyed by the Marxist crowd to have the way for an Islamic Republic aided and abbetted by KC3 himself.
The country is being turned into a third world dump so it will dovetail nicely into where the invaders come from.
Yesterday’s debate in North Sea production starkly highlighted government policy of destruction of jobs, tax revenues and energy security mandated by one man. The increasing bonkers Ed the stone Milibrain.
All is going to plan according to the real head of government, Hermer, never voted for and never challenged.
March 26, 2026
Because almost all of this is a result of 14 years of Conservative government so we must conclude they agree with it all rather than oppose it.
Reply Untrue. Conservatives kept minesweepers and a frigate in Middle East to help keep open Suez and Hormuz, crucial trade routes for us.We usually kept a carrier and submarines at sea as well as nuclear deterrent.
March 26, 2026
Good morning.
If you really want to know in what parlous state our defence and navy is in, go and look at what is happening to our submarine fleet. We are supposed to have four Trident submarines with the ability to rotate them over a reasonable period. This is not happening.
A nation that cannot even fill its pot holes is a nation that cannot pay for a defence force.
March 26, 2026
Everything they do is weakening our country.
Their objective is to make it impossible for it to survive as an independent, Sovereign nation; they are deliberately dismantling the UK.
March 26, 2026
“Cyprus and the EU that we reconsider that base, crucial to our interests in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.”
This is what we should be reconsidering: we are a small island nation off the Atlantic coast of Europe. What “interests” do we have in the Med and Middle East? Are military bases, useable by America, helpful to those interests? China seems to do pretty well securing trade routes without having a string of military bases around the world, and they are a massive hegemon and the world’s biggest trader. What is a global dwarf like today’s Britain doing with bases and “interests” in far flung places.
By all means make the homeland a fortress. But fix the potholes and NHS before eyeing up and tying us up in foreign parts.
March 26, 2026
No matter how you look at the Labour government, whether you are a socialist or a realist Labour are not doing the UK any favours in any area they focus on.
Defence is simply another example where the core objective of Labour policy is to destroy our essential sovereign support institutions and leave the nation weak.
Industrial policy is destroying manufacturing and jobs under Net Zero.
Farming and rural affairs are causing chaos and destroying our most basic survival industry.
Fish in our own waters has been given to the continental EU at no advantage to the UK.
Energy is being made unstable, expensive and un-accessible with closure of the North Sea.
Borders have been abandoned allowing open access to all.
Policing is none existent in many areas allowing open criminality to roam at will.
The PM treats Parliament with contempt and the speaker allows it?
Can anyone name a single feature of this Labour administration that is positive for Britain.
Even our diplomatic service has been traduced by sleaze and scandal, plus open hostility towards our most important key security ally.
It is not good enough.
March 26, 2026
The biggest problem is our politicians are simply not up to their job. For instance Starmer spent yesterday’s questions time and again saying the answer to our energy price crisis is for the parties in the Iran War to de-escalate on the very day when Trump made absolutely clear to anybody with any brains that he has decided to escalate the conflict very soon. Why else would he be publishing his harsh conditions for peace? It must be for show to justify his imminent escalation. If he was seriously negotiating Donald Trump wouldn’t be doing so in public and specifying harsh terms for people, especially his Opposition in America shortly before mid-term elections to see that he will withdraw without achieving anything like them. Unlike Teresa May he knows how to negotiate, unlike Sunak he knows not to commit himself publicly to the unachievable and unlike Starmer he knows what he is doing. Nobody in Parliament and indeed no journalist afterwards picked up on nor presumably spotted that Starmer failed to read the obvious and absurdly asked for the opposite of what is soon going to happen, that is Trump has decided ‘to unleash hell’ upon Iran within days. There is no substitute for the brains our political class lacks.
March 26, 2026
One hopes Trump knows by now that the Straits of H. is the essential prize, to achieve that the way lies through regime change – that’s is clearly a big ask. US Ground forces are on the way, but most generals say not enough for the job, will he get any other nations’ ground forces to join him?
March 26, 2026
“Where is the money”
Well not in the NSI Bank who seem to have lost £400 million according to reports today.
Also they seem to have overrun the updated expenditure of their systems by £2 billion.
The CEO is apparently reported as being on over £500,000 per year.
Yet another government management failure to add to the long failure list.
Will anyone be sacked ?
March 26, 2026
You say our base in Diego Garcia is important, but why ? What interests do we, the UK, have in the Indian Ocean thousands of miles away ? If it is “important” why don’t we also have bases in the Pacific ? How does that base protect the UK ? No strategic review would conclude that base is anything other than very peripheral to our defence and a very low spending priority. We should just sell it to the USA, a move Trump would understand.
Reply It is crucial to defence of trade routes through Indian ocean into Pacific, to links with India and Australia, and is range of Middle East.
March 26, 2026
Roy, using that argument, you could be asking what point is the base in Gibraltar or Cyprus or Ascension Island or the Falklands? Most of us would suggest we are better served owning and controlling those strategic places than abandoning them at great cost.
A bird in the hand as they say…
March 26, 2026
Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor whose previous experience was as a PPI claims assessor has raised taxes by £45 – £60 billion a year.
Where has this extra money been spent – welfare, pensions (which are contributory so there is a case to increase this spending), sickness benefits, civil service pay and net zero subsidies. These are the priorities of this government not our security or the welfare of those who contribute.
A mention also for the civil servants and top brass in the Ministry of Defence who have been in place since before this administration and who have not managed to persuade governments of any colours to priotitise defending the nation. These actors are just as culpable.
March 26, 2026
Let’s not be in too much of a rush to do that – a considered gradient of evaluation and supply would be better than rushing into purchasing out of date equipment.
With luck the threat from Iran will soon have been removed – then we just have to stop our PM whispering encouragement to Zelensky and giving our precious money to keep an unnecessary war going. “No Mr prime minister, we do not want to go to war, and certainly not with Russia – are you out of your mind. How does joining/supporting this war keep British people safe?”
The sooner Starmer goes the better – we would all be so much better off.
March 26, 2026
“Where is the defence plan? Where is the money? Where above all is the sovereign will even to defend our islands?”
Where is anything M’Lud? We have had no viable industrial, energy, health, defence, migration or trade strategies for a very long time. We are completely adrift, rudderless in stormy seas, just blown here and there by the prevailing winds.
Yesterday, Starmer held his head in his hands at PMQs. Well that’s the way I’ve felt for a very long time.
Cometh the Day, Cometh the Man (or Woman)?
I don’t see him (or her) yet…but we desperately need someone with ability at the wheel. Captain Keir is heading for the rocks and has no idea how to avoid them. I’m not sure he can even see them.
March 26, 2026
So who is going to keep our sea lanes open?
March 26, 2026
Then let’s get a real perspective, benefits greater than those paid to those that actually work, higher than inflation pay awards for state employed who are members of a sponsor’s union.
Those in charge, of the UK Parliament have their eye focused on rewarding their voters, the next election, before being concerned about expenditure, who actually pays and honesty