The early retirement of the Harrier force next year will leave Britain without any aircraft to put on its carriers for at least nine years until 2020 Photo: PA
The early retirement of the Harrier force next year will leave Britain without any aircraft to put on its carriers for at least nine years until 2020 Photo: PA
I wonder how long before they decide for budget reasons that the second carrier, the one slated to be the first with cats, gets scrapped all together, and the first carrier doesn't get retrofit with cats, making the purchase of F-35Cs also moot.
I guess A.A. was right. The RAF screwed the Navy. Or the way I read it, Number 10 Downing screwed the Navy.
Sell half of them on e-Bay and keep the rest going with the proceeds...(/sarc, sorta)
So in the name of balancing their budget they are going to axe their ability to project force?
Guess they will have to depend on Soccer players and hooligans to protect their island paradise.
Could it be this???
Somali family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was ‘in poor area’
Posted on July 11, 2010 9:53:04 PM GMT+09:00 by cycle of discernment
Somali asylum seeker family given £2m house... after complaining 5-bed London home was ‘in poor area’
By CHRIS HASTINGS, GEORGE ARBUTHNOTT and MATT SANDY
10th July 2010
A family of former asylum-seekers from Somalia are living in a £2.1million luxury townhouse in one of Britain’s most exclusive addresses at a cost to taxpayers of £8,000 a month.
Abdi and Sayruq Nur and their seven children moved into their three-storey property in a fashionable area of London last month because they didn’t like the ‘poorer’ part of the city they were living in.
Mr Nur, 42, an unemployed bus conductor, and his 40-year-old wife, who has never worked, are now living in Kensington despite the fact that they are totally dependent on state benefits.
They live close to celebrities, including artist Lucian Freud, singer Damon Albarn and designer Stella McCartney, and their home is just minutes from the fashionable Kensington Place restaurant which was a favourite haunt of the late Princess Diana.
The family’s new home is believed to be one of the most expensive houses ever paid for by housing benefit, which is administered by local councils but funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.
It is humiliating for, what a mere 100 years ago, was the world's greatest empire to have fallen to these depths.
Harrier Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF06XZ3_cww
Ungland...No way Britain will keep those carriers mothballed for 9 years, they will either scuttle them or turn them into razor blades.
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