Posted on 07/01/2018 5:41:48 AM PDT by Nextrush
The Army is thinking of buying a large fleet of inflatable tanks, in the hope of fooling an enemy into believing we are still a serious military power.
Even if we can find an enemy dim enough to fall for this, it probably won't work.
Incompetent modern Britain, which has a weirdly contrived shortage of CO2 when everyone else is trying to get rid of it, is quite capable of running out of air when time comes to pump up the inflatable tanks.
It is working very hard on running out of electricity to drive the pumps, too.
Our mad dogma-driven destruction of coal-fired power stations has left us horribly vulnerable to power cuts.
But the desperate scheme symbolizes modern Britain, a country made up of inflatable fakes-easily punctured by a single, solid, sharp fact...….
…..a mass of unrepayable public and private debt made worse by an impossible trade deficit.
Then there's the inflatable NHS, into which we pump endless sums of money...….
Inflated exam results are used to pump up our schools (grandly renamed "academies") so that they look good, even if their products can barely read and have learned little except crude Left-wing prejudices.
And so back we come to our Armed Forces. Our Army is smaller than it has been for 200 years.
Many of our shrunken Navy's ships are stuck immobilized at the quayside because they won't work in warm water.
And it has just been forced to sell one of its most important and powerful vessels, HMS Ocean, to the Brazilian Navy for a song...….
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Hitchens is no friend of President Trump, but helps DJT make his case.
I have already written that the "UK" is a few letters and an "ED" short of what its becoming.
Hitchens describes himself as the 'scribe' of his country's obituary as it is.
But not to get too smug, I think some of his comment has application to our nation's situations, especially when he touches on education and debt.
I want one. Available on Amazon?
Back then they were building real ones by the thousands but nowadays they...
> The Army is thinking of buying a large fleet of inflatable tanks <
I thought Hitchens must be kidding here, to make a point. But he’s not kidding. The British Army really is considering this.
Such deception worked before D-Day. But in 1944 the UK also had thousands of real tanks. Today they have around 200.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6614895/british-army-could-use-inflatable-tanks/
Inflatable tanks? How very British.
This is just the end results of what happens when politicians use public money to buy votes.
United Kingdom is surviving by eating their seed corn.
It’s a tankless job, but someone has to do it.
Not to mention, Peter, inflating the UK population with muslims ... sorry I meant ‘Asians’.
Free Tommy Robinson.
Inflatable tanks aren’t offensive to minorities and they don’t commit “hate crimes”...sarc
Robinson’s charges and sentence seem to be inflated though...
FREEPER TREADHEAD PING
I believe Obama demonstrated his knowledge of farming when he
referred to it as “eating ones corn seed”
But if the tank has a barrel droop, do they give it tank-agra?
A quick definition of the term “eating your seed corn”
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/To+eat+the+seed+corn
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