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Heavy_D posted:gonna just park this one here for a special occasion  I'd somehow missed out on Toby Young until now, and perhaps I'm only hearing half the story but his unending litany of gently caress ups is farcical. Also I didn't know that The Other Johnson was an mp as well. The Westminster clown infestation is worse than I feared
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ah the caustic wit
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Reagan was more of a "invade any tiny nation remotely associated with communism" with a hearty dose of nuclear brinksmanship and light treason on the side
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Finally more caustic wit in government. That's what planning the future of HE requires.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Welp, she topped Regan did know she was into pegging
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meant to say "didnt", maybe i knew subconsciously all along
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well she's a tory so loving people is basically her MO
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So wait did they make the terrible writer guy obsessed with "boobies" a cabinet minister or something? What's he doing at DfE?
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nopantsjack posted:So wait did they make the terrible writer guy obsessed with "boobies" a cabinet minister or something? What's he doing at DfE?
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nopantsjack posted:the terrible writer guy obsessed with "boobies" this is literally every tory minister pls be more specific
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bump_fn posted:this is literally every tory minister pls be more specific THat is not true. Plenty wre obsessed with boys arses.
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Crowsbeak posted:THat is not true. Plenty wre obsessed with boys arses. why not both
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MikeCrotch posted:why not both Said the Minister on his junket to Thailand
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Pound_Coin posted:Said the Minister on his junket to Thailand is that like a small junk is the minister boating around se asia
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Jan 3, 2018 16:09
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Huh. I guess with the news re. Young's inclination to eugenics this means Boris is secretly suicidal?
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the timelord regenerated as a fukken northerner again 
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Hahaha, wow: The flagship of the Royal Navy was just sold to Brazil.
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Really rude of the peasants to sell her majesty's ship
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Aircraft carriers are useless anyway, especially the British midget carriers.
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The United Socialist States of the Atlantic Archipelago have unveiled their newest flagship TABS Marx.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Aircraft carriers are useless anyway, especially the British midget carriers. I agree with you re shorty carriers, but this was a Amphibious Assault Ship, this was fairly useful
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I'm not really so bothered about us getting rid of our expensive toys, since diminishing British power projection's probably better for the world over all, but it certainly does rankle me that it got fixed up on the taxpayer's purse then sold off for a dubious (since it's gonna be refitted again prior to sale) profit we'll see none of.
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TomViolence posted:I'm not really so bothered about us getting rid of our expensive toys, since diminishing British power projection's probably better for the world over all, but it certainly does rankle me that it got fixed up on the taxpayer's purse then sold off for a dubious (since it's gonna be refitted again prior to sale) profit we'll see none of. OK here's a question thread: Was it Corbyn who shitcanned all of the UK's anti-submarine aircraft? Because history says that of all things to shitcan, that was pretty dumb. While the government is working on replacements, right now it rents ASW patrol when the nuclear deterrent subs leave port from France and Canada
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The world will never be safe so long as Britain has a navy.
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IMO there's two directions the Royal Navy can go (not including "abolish the Royal Navy"). And you can only do one because you don't have enough money or sailors to do both. one is to have amphibious assault ships (like HMS Ocean), frigates, submarine hunters, maritime search and rescue planes, etc. -- the stuff that you would need if you're content with putting around the North Sea and you also want to occasionally move some Royal Marines around. or, two, you could scrap all that and spend everything on two aircraft carriers and the supporting ships for a single carrier group. Because you need two carriers to have a single group, since half of the year one carrier will be in port for maintenance. guess which one the Royal Navy picked.
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Here's the great thing about this, though. If you can't do anything except sail this carrier group around, then what are you doing? Mainly you're supporting the U.S. Navy, which is similar to how the Commonwealth navies got set up by Britain when they went independent. i.e. the Royal Navy will be just another American battle group, except the sailors will have different accents and wear fancier uniforms.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:IMO there's two directions the Royal Navy can go (not including "abolish the Royal Navy"). And you can only do one because you don't have enough money or sailors to do both. The two carriers thing I get, but doesn't the QE II class only support eight fighters?
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Nebakenezzer posted:The two carriers thing I get, but doesn't the QE II class only support eight fighters? the ones they're replacing only carried a couple of fighters though. like a dozen tops.
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Nebakenezzer posted:The two carriers thing I get, but doesn't the QE II class only support eight fighters? Official figures say anywhere between 40 to 48, which seems about right for its size relative to a Nimitz. I think any shortfall could be blamed on the UK not actually having enough F-35s to fill-out the full complement.
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Just think of all the jobs you could make building a nuclear powered supercarrier that will get immediately destroyed in any war with a country that has surface-to-ship missiles.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Just think of all the jobs you could make building a nuclear powered supercarrier that will get immediately destroyed in any war with a country that has surface-to-ship missiles.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Just think of all the jobs you could make building a nuclear powered supercarrier that will get immediately destroyed in any war with a country that has surface-to-ship missiles. It's not nuclear-powered 
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Just think of all the jobs you could make building a nuclear powered supercarrier that will get immediately destroyed in any war with a country that has surface-to-ship missiles. This is Russia's hope, yes Missile spam vs. active defenses I think is probably the Fuda Gap of naval war: studied to exhaustion by everyone involved
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Just think of all the jobs you could make building a nuclear powered supercarrier that will get immediately destroyed in any war with a country that has surface-to-ship missiles.
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isn't torpedo spam harder to counter?
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Nebakenezzer posted:OK here's a question thread: Corbyn has never been a Minister of the Crown, and consequently he's not shitcanned anything whatsoever.
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