UK Politics Thread (Part 3)

No , his parole should be denied and he should serve the remainder of his sentence. Once his time is served however he will be released and there’s not much anyone can do about that.

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I would think it’s more to do with the black holes HCunt keeps making up, great big pits the government needs to fill.

I wonder how many more individuals are taking much needed money from the NHS -

One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts (msn.com)

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It was purely coincidental.

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Recommend you replace that link with this: One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts | Party funding | The Guardian

I believe it’s the original article.

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Worth pointing out that it is “supposed” to be an RAF plane but since they painted it in bright colours it’s about as much use as the proverbial chocolate teapot as a military aircraft.

Do you wonder why the NATO countries despair of the state of Britain’s military?

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The utter incompetence of the media in failing to question the complete bullshit spouted by Sunak today beggars belief.

Not sure which is worse: an inept prime minister or an inept media.

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Inept opposition has to factor in there too.

News to me? Who’s always there with the planes and the tanks and the ships when needed? Maybe our media don’t report on the Italian jets, Spanish carriers and French armour being deployed when needed?

Unwillingness, not incompetence.

This from earlier this year:

Or this from 2015?

I spoke to my mate in the MoD about it a couple of months back and, in fairness, he did say that the US always complain that spending is not enough or not on the right things.

However, that doesn’t really cover things like running down the tank facilities (Johnson was even contemplating effectively scrapping the Royal Armoured Corps) when the NATO partners were offering to maintain them.

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Sunak is on Radio 4 now, talking utter bollocks.

He doesn’t appear to realise that there’s a difference between words and actions.

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Didn’t open the links, but not sure anyone from the US Army should be leveling criticism at another countries armed forces given their previous.

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There are more than 2 members of NATO……

He went from being a (relative) breath of fresh air to something approaching an automaton , minus the charisma , in an incredibly short space of time.

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I’m not sure why anyone would have expected anything different from him?

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It’s the hope that kills ya.

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Ironically, these very same conversations will be taking place if Starmer ever gets into number 10

You think Labour will promise thing one and then change it to thing two once elected? Never.