This should be an argument for a minimum basic income, as these thousands of people are effectively being paid by the state to sit at home because British Steel has no orders on the books.
It does need to be algae free, and to that end the water is pumped with ozone rather than chlorine. The last rebuild, during Obama, needed a full draining soon after recommissining to clear out the algae again, at some cost. They since ramped up the ozone levels to kill anything in the pool.
People said the same when I criticised Fetterman when he was still pretending to be lefty. I was right then, and Polanski gives me the same shady feeling. There’s no reason to lie about the Red Cross, no reason to claim that hypnosis increases breast size. So why does he do these things? Is he telling the truth when he says things I like to hear?
Reform (it was his deputy who did it) made an empty threat, which is extraordinary but unless they demolished planning law first is inert headline grabbing.
Meanwhile, another man who would quite like to run the government decided to do some social media bandwaggoneering rather than remembering that as an MP and party leader he can in fact get the Met Commissioner on the phone to explain the event before putting his foot in his mouth.
So both tried to get social media frenzied, with varying success, but I would hope for something better from the Green party.
China has been involved in several wars. It has been fighting in Mali since 2012, and has had several skirmishes against India in the past decade. Before that, it was at war with Vietnam in 1979 with tens of thousands killed.
The Type 45 has turned out to be a bit of a lemon. Daring has only just returned after being laid up for 8 whole years to replace its failed propulsion equipment. In Summer 2021, Defender was the sole operational vessel, the rest laid up with failures. It has been a bit embarrassing.
One of the exacerbating issues is that it has a rather old-fashioned design paradigm, which means the whole ship is one integrated unit, rather than the modern style of modular design and build. This means it’s very involved to change one thing. To replace the poorly-conceived diesel generators, the ship had to be cut open and the whole electrical system redone.
The Astutes have barely been better. Construction has been troubled, and only Anson is in service. And that’s been sent to Australia to gladhand the Aussies. And as soon as another Astute becomes ready, Anson is to be brought in for refurbishment so the shortages continue. Motivation is low on these builds, as the Navy confirmed they’re dumping the Astutes as soon as the AUKUS vessels come in.
The Vanguards are immaterial to conventional warfare, but they haven’t been too hot either with more availability woes.
Both QE carriers are technically available, but PoW has a dicky starboard propeller shaft, and in any case, with over half the fleet out of action, there are too few vessels to form an adequate escort force so they won’t find themselves near a war.
This should be an argument for a minimum basic income, as these thousands of people are effectively being paid by the state to sit at home because British Steel has no orders on the books.