Recent content by WATFORD zero

As mentioned earlier, rejoining the Customs Union would bring in close to £100B per year, now I'm no mathematician but ...........

It is a mixture of worrying and brilliant as we sit here in 2025.

So how do you think the Brexit that you voted for (and apparently new exactly what you voted for) has gone for the UK defence policy ? Maybe we should give the economic, immigration, protect our borders bollox a wide steer until later because I'm sure you can't you still be naive/stupid enough...

I have a horrible feeling that is where a significant proportion of our defence spending should go. Not great for those who get off on Boats, Subs, Planes, Missiles, and thousands of fit young people full of testosterone with guns. The future belongs to the geeks :down:

I bought a new blade two years ago, but can I get the current one off ? I've tried every type of oil known to man. I'm going to buy a new mower because I can't get the blade off (again) :facepalm:

If you think that is bad, you should see what they've done to our cavalry regiments. I really don't want to be sarcastic, but whatever we are now investing in is for 2035, not 1945.

It'll sharpen up that blade (y)

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I would be stunned if every professional service person didn't fight and if you talk to professional services people you will find out that the last thing they would want in the middle of a fight is conscripts. If you are old enough to have been friendly or worked with people who were...

It was. Thinking about it, the reason I generally post the emojis is in recognition of the fact that most of NSC (and certainly my posts), no matter how passionately we feel about it at the time is just old men shouting at clouds (and a few old women, and one or two youngsters who need to take...

But if it's a race between designing, building and commissioning major military assets and technology, I really think there's only going to be one winner (and technical obsolescence is only moving in one direction). Hence we first have to figure out what are going to constitute the biggest...

The thing about what we should prepare against was a completely new point, maybe I should have put it in another post. (And it was so tempting)

Rejoining the Customs Union will get the vast majority of it and I'll bet we can do it quicker than designing, building and commissioning a single new sub :wink:

Or do what @Doug-ees-evil suggests on this very thread And fund the whole increase in defence spending, leave all taxes where they are, and invest the rest in growing the UK's economy by 4-5% per year :thumbsup: And, as @The Fits pointed out earlier, we need to figure out who and what we will...

If we are talking about how we invest our increasing defence budget over the next decade, it would be worthwhile taking a long look at what's going on in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, because by 2035 I'm really not sure that large multi-million pound military assets and huge numbers of...