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You're right, £12k for doing nothing is not wealthy. Neither is having £500k house you bought for a fraction. Nor having a DB private pension.
And not forgetting you're within a gnats arse on pension credit benefits too.
Why do your benefits rise faster than anyone else's income?
Not in attendance this year, but from the outside looks like a thoroughly depressing lack of progress from 2 years ago when agility, urgency and optimism seemed to be the chat.
Few more 4x4 painted green, SME still waiting for MOD to open the wallet, and big delays in AFV.
National Armament Director Rupert Pearce giving the Keynote Address at #DVD2026 🗣
@UKArmaments @BritishArmy
Apparently defence commentators don't know how benefits work. Surprised? No.
UC is means tested, there are millions on low-paid and part-time wages being paid UC.
Wind generation is currently (1530h) circa 1GW, but it's not because it's not windy. It's because it's not windy in the North Sea. West of Scotland and Celtic sea need Floating Offshore Wind, that helps diversify our generation and builds a new industry with global potential.
A dozen soldiers with fiskars hedge trimmers doing the job of 2 brush cutters or even just a digger.
That's not really a surprise, is it?
4.2 million volunteers is 6% of UK population.
Estimated able-bodied between mena and women aged 18-40 is some 8-10 million.
EXCLUSIVE: A mere 6% of people in the UK would volunteer to fight for the country in the face of an imminent invasion, a new @YouGov survey has revealed.
A further 14% of Britons would agree to serve if called up, but 17% said they would refuse any order to defend their homeland, while a whopping 52% of people polled said they would be ineligible because of age or disability.
As for the chances of war, the survey - shared exclusively with @SkyNews, found that almost one third of people - 29% - said they believe it is likely the UK will come under a full-scale military attack within the next decade.
By contrast, the majority of respondents - 51% - described such a threat as unlikely.
They will hope that they are right as the poll exposed a lack of confidence in the ability of the military to keep the UK safe should the worst happen.
Some 53% of people said they were not confident their armed forces are strong enough to defend the country against an attack, while just over one third - 38% - said they were.
In another interesting finding, the survey discovered that an overwhelming majority of the British public - 57% - believe the government is spending too little on defence. A mere 6% said they thought the defence budget was too big.
However, there was no agreement among the more than 2,300 British people surveyed on where any extra money to invest in the armed forces should come from.
More than half said they opposed funding a bigger defence budget by raising taxes, reducing expenditure in public services or by borrowing more.
The poll was conducted in June following the publication of a new defence investment plan that Sir Keir Starmer’s government failed sufficiently to fund, leaving at least a £5bn blackhole for the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, to fill.
Successive governments have reduced spending on defence since the end of the Cold War as they shifted resources into peacetime priorities such as health, welfare and education.
But politicians across Europe now say the so-called “peace dividend” is over following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Yet a switch back to spending a much larger chunk of national wealth once again on defence has yet to happen in Britain.
YouGov also polled people in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, France and Poland as part of its survey.
Everyone was asked what they viewed as the biggest global threat from a list of options, which included a military attack but that only came out on top in Poland.
Britons, Canadians and French cited climate change; Germans said mass migration; Americans said political extremism; and Australians said religious terrorism.
Opinion was also divided on which country posed the biggest threat to world peace.
The UK and other European nations said Russia but ranked the United States second.
For the Australians and Canadians this order was reversed, with the US seen as a greater threat to peace than Russia. In the US, the biggest threat was seen as Iran.
As for whether countries think the US is a force for good in the world with Donald Trump as president, the overwhelming view was no, it has become a “force for bad”.
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Where once we wanted to stick Brimstone on everything... Now we should be sticking LMM on everything. Or both.
The UK has ordered hundreds more UK-built Lightweight Multirole Missiles from Thales to rebuild air defence stockpiles and protect British forces in the Middle East. Click image for more.
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Gent in yellow, "I'm an engineer, a scientist by background, and what I really care about is energy"
"And that's one of these things which I feel has been turned into a culture war"
"So let me say one thing"
"We know that heat pumps, insulation, EVs, etc can save half your energy usage"
"It's a massive difference"
"And Iran, while, and this is not just about climate change, we can use as a strategic reserve"
"We can use that oil for aviation or AI data centres"
"But we've got politicians here on the table today, I believe, who deny these facts"
"And why should we platform you when we can save that money? The energy. The money"
"And this also means that we're not paying the oil money to Russia, which uses it to strike Ukraine every day, and we pay again for defence missiles"
"So it's a very serious question. And this is the science, this is the fact. You cannot say that that does not save half the energy."
They literally spent £686m to fund 3 months work. Wtf is going on.
GCAP moves into full trilateral mode with GBP 686m contract for design of next-generation fighter jet for the UK, Italy and Japan. Click image for more.
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If you needed another reason to believe that the Defender is no longer fit for service as a light utility vehicle for the British Army, look no further...
@AlistairCarns
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KNDS annonce le lancement du #CAESAR chenillé.
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#WeAreKNDS
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I'm not sure the Welsh Government using HESA 136 Shahed / Geran-2 Drones as their imagery for their plan for economic growth is necessarily their finest Comms hour. Rather sinister and tone deaf for the people of Wales and the many Ukrainians that have sought sanctuary in Wales.
