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Cheers Arry

They have to do a certain amount of drills and exercises before deploying. They could of course forgo these but that would then introduce risk during the deployment. I guess that risk has been deemed unacceptable given the assets already in the region.

Actually, you are right. I remember now discussing this a few years ago. Still don’t think it’s right.

don’t be organising nights out this early on mate . You know big D won’t like that and you’ll only make yourslef look a fool when he doesn’t let you out for the night

You’ll get no good of him im afraid

Bok

I told.hom time ago.ill pop.tbrew pick ya up lol its hard to run hares now license lol

To steal your phrase bangers don’t talk wet. Everyone knows you’ve never done any hunting and you only come on to relay your uncles old tales you used to always mention. Got to 40 years of age and decided to do abit with a pee shooter that’s about the size of it for you. When you can bum a lift out of the estate of course

Mohammad and Mr Singh open their shops 24 hours a day you complain about that us poor Irish open late and close for lunch and you complain about that. What way did ye great British operate your shops during the great time of the empire when ye had it perfected the world over? I’m starting to think there’s no pleasing you at all WILF

You ain't stepped foot on land i run lol anyone knows me will tell you i don't give a f**k its a few rabbits At least whrn your paying top dollar you can see with your eyes the bitch stop em no story's pub talk or nonsense lol your getting a pup from killers got to be worth 2k a pup aye ?

Chicken Pie and Cauliflower Cheese. Cheers Arry

Not in the 6 nations .. don't think they've ever played all 3 at the same time

Cushty

Good man october

The fly not in the ointment! You know?

Yeah should cut your 4 acres

So like I said you missed my point. It wasn’t a solution it was a tool for demonstrating the real problem, lack of priority in government and the electorate.

It will be super interesting to see if marines are deployed to capture island/s. A significant part of their doctrine in a potential future war with china is island hoping. A successful operation would send a big message to the Chinese. I wonder how the US citizens feel about boots on the ground though.

I referenced what you said because it’s a forum , a vehicle for debate and discussion. You offered a solution to raising defence spending, I offered an alternative. Dont get upset if someone has a different view to yours As I’ve said many times ; I can respect anyone’s view without necessarily agreeing with it Cheers.

I think that’s the plan but it could take two weeks to get there from the South China Sea, who knows ? I wouldn’t like to guess what’s going on in Trumps mind Cheers.

Why reference what I said then? Of course the burden is upon the tax payer. They make up the electorate and decide through elections what their money is spent on. And time and again fail to prioritise defence or its funding. Fail to hold government accountable for waste or dumb initiatives. I just find it so lazy to always say “we’ll use the foreign aid budget”. Like that isn’t one tenth what is needed or even a political reality.

nothing to worry about trump sending 5,000 marines to the gulf ,will they try and take kharg island ?

A can speyk diabolical send him off. Talking about politicians FFS.

I wasn’t looking for a point, I was simply offering alternatives I didn’t think the burden should fall on the taxpayer when so much money, in my opinion, is thrown away by politicians. Cheers.

There is simply not the political will from the government or the electorate to pay for a military proportionate to our expectations. Using a doubling of income tax was a simple example for what would be needed. Yes of course alternatively you could pay for it by diverting funds from other spending or find efficiencies but I find that frankly lazy because it’s proven no more doable than raising taxes. Even if all that could be done you would then be faced with the same political dilemma we face with every other budget/tax scenario, e.g., “spend it on anything other than defence”. The Brit