27/10/2017 00:00
Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper I wanted to join the Royal Navy; it was probably all thanks to novels by Douglas Reeman and Cecil Scott Forester which I read at length in my youth. In the end it was not to be, but obviously I still maintain a big interest in the "grey funnel line". The errors and infighting of the present Conservative government in Britain are well-known and clear for all to see, but its treatment of the armed services, especially the Royal Navy, doesn’t usually make the headlines.
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Catalonia parliament declares independence, Rajoy dismisses Puigdemont.Look Jason.This is news about Spain just incase you have forgot what news is.You turned your back on England all them years ago for whatever reason so concentrate on Majorca and stop putting England down.PS well said MelB.
I hope that the Argentina Government is not reading this, because we could not muster a task force to defend the Falklands Island if they decided to attack again, and with the threat of our two Amphibious ships going along with 100 Royal Marines we would struggle to amass a defence force to fight them off.
Unfortunately,it's not just the armed forces that are being cut to the bone,it's just about every service in the UK,the police,fire brigade,ambulance service,medical services and just about every council service,the only growth is in foodbanks,who would have ever thought that the UK in 2017 would come to this.
There would be more than enough money if successive governments didn’t throw it away on providing for people who don’t want to work, who think that the UK is a free for all and spending a massive amount of money surveilling people who should not be there in the first place. But unfortunately PC rules instead of common sense.
It is high time our editor is made redundant and replaced by one who will provide insight and comment on events happening here in the Balearics.
Great Britain can not afford to keep a large Army,Navy and RAF anymore. The Royal Air Force has been "asset stripped" to the bone. There are very few Servicemen, Aircraft and equipment's. Terrorism is the great threat today. The MoD have been subjected to huge financial reductions. Concentration of all reduced funding, needs to aimed at defending Great Britain, and not policing the World alongside America.