Prime Minister Statement on Integrated Review - 16 Mar 21

[rebel_with_a_cause]

Boris about to make a statement.

 

[Coracao]

Boris about to make a statement.

He's already doing it on BBC Parliament. They are taking questions already. Starmer asked him to confirm whether there were any cuts, he obviously completely avoided the question, as per usual.

 

[rebel_with_a_cause]

He's already doing it on BBC Parliament. They are taking questions already. Starmer asked him to confirm whether there were any cuts, he obviously completely avoided the question, as per usual.

It took me so bloody long to post that.

 

[Coracao]

Make that twice he has failed to answer it.

 

[Coracao]

Three times.

 

[rebel_with_a_cause]

22nd March for Defence Secretary's statement on modernisation.

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

Three times.

Why would he answer Starmer? Starmer will have seen the review well before release, he's just grandstanding as usual.

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

22nd March for Defence Secretary's statement on modernisation.

That's the Command Paper

 

[Coracao]

Why would he answer Starmer? Starmer will have seen the review well before release, he's just grandstanding as usual.

He has been asked my 3 different MPs whether there will be cuts to the Armed Forces. He has avoided the question three times.

 

[Señor_Chang]

Why would he answer Starmer? Starmer will have seen the review well before release, he's just grandstanding as usual.

The point is that the PM answers publicly and from his own mouth.

 

[alfred_the_great]

Just read it.

The Army has nothing mentioned by name, whereas both RN and RAF do.

 

[rampant]

Just read it.

The Army has nothing mentioned by name, whereas both RN and RAF do.

Think we have to wait for next week for that. But a claim of 24 frigates by the end of the decade is interesting. T26/31/32 or did he mean 24 Escorts which would in clufe the T42s, which would suggest around 5 T32s unless they bump up the numbers on the existing programs

 

[medwaymud]

Think we have to wait for next week for that. But a claim of 24 frigates by the end of the decade is interesting. T26/31/32 or did he mean 24 Escorts which would in clufe the T42s, which would suggest around 5 T32s unless they bump up the numbers on the existing programs

Well, at least that is a boost to British shipyards.
I mean , now we are out of EU we can get them built where we like, right ?

 

[jagman2]

Well, at least that is a boost to British shipyards.
I mean , now we are out of EU we can get them built where we like, right ?

Warships always built at home in the UK

 

[kinross_special]

Well, at least that is a boost to British shipyards.
I mean , now we are out of EU we can get them built where we like, right ?

can you name a current British warship that hasn't been built in a British yard....? Actually, to be scrupulously accurate and save you the bother, I'll name both of them. HMS Magpie and HMS Protector.

 

[rampant]

Well, at least that is a boost to British shipyards.
I mean , now we are out of EU we can get them built where we like, right ?

We always did, and always could. EU procurement rules only ever required that any competion held must be open and transparent

 

[lastwalt]

We always did, and always could. EU procurement rules only ever required that any completion held must be open and transparent

His point still stands. Now we can do warship procurement the way we do NHS PPE procurement. Do any of Hancock's drinking buddies have a shipyard?

 

[medwaymud]

We always did, and always could. EU procurement rules only ever required that any completion held must be open and transparent

I did not know that and am delighted to hear it.

 

[gorilla]

Interesting that we;re increasing the amount of nuclear warheads in our possession!

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

Downloadable here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/969402/The_Integrated_Review_of_Security__Defence__Development_and_Foreign_Policy.pdf