Britain should turn all the boats heading to the UK into Royal Navy vessels. Add a Union Jack to the sterns, and presto! You’ve got a large and impressive navy again.
Posted on 03/26/2026 8:47:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Royal Navy was facing growing criticism over its effectiveness as Defence Secretary John Healey struggled to say how many warships it has.
The Cabinet minister came under fire after been grilled on how many frigates there are in the navy as he took to the airwaves to say British forces may now intercept Russian “shadow fleet” vessels in the Channel.
“We have...we have...we have...we have...we have...we have 17 frigates and destroyers,” he told LBC Radio.
“It’s down from 23 at the end of the last Labour government.”
(Excerpt) Read more at standard.co.uk ...
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Britain should turn all the boats heading to the UK into Royal Navy vessels. Add a Union Jack to the sterns, and presto! You’ve got a large and impressive navy again.
Questionable terminology. I am not 100% sure, but I think the defense secretary in the UK is not like our secretary of defense or our Secretary of war. That would be the defense minister.
I think the defense secretary is the top civil servant as they are MOD, their ministry of defense. But the article then calls having a cabinet minister and that just confuses things further.
Ever heard of the theory of “Natural selection”?
This picture it it in real time!
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