In an article for the Telegraph, Grant Shapps bemoans the failure of our Nato allies to spend sufficiently on their armed forces to keep our adversaries at bay. Captain W.E. John Ellwood (RFC Ret’d) imagines our Defence Secretary on the front line. Acting Flight Commander Shappsworth, popularly known as ‘Shapps’, ‘Scrapper Shapps’, or sometimes, ‘Go-get-em Grant’ was […]
THE wheels are falling off at the Ministry of Defence under the inspired leadership of Grant Shapps, the Army wives dealing the latest blow. Thanks to their protests, the plan to change the way Army accommodation is allocated has been shelved. The hapless Secretary of State should have thought twice before messing with them. Neither Mr Shapps nor those […]
HERE’S a question for Grant Shapps, our wonderful Secretary of State for Defence and former Secretary of State for Business, Energy Security and Net Zero. How do you propose to make weaponry in the UK without a domestic supply of high carbon steel (that’s the stuff made at Tata’s Port Talbot plant which is now […]
DEFENCE has been very much part of the Academy’s lifeblood – accounting for a sizeable slice of the school’s budget. The combined cadet force (CCF) has been an integral element of guarding pupils and staff in the event of an attack. We have been fortunate to have had several competent and capable masters who have […]
ON January 14, the minehunter HMS Chiddingfold reversed into HMS Bangor in the dock at Bahrain. Repairs are expected to cost £25million. In a typical outpouring of gibberish Defence Secretary Grant Shapps (aka Michael Green) said: ‘We don’t say it’s incompetence when we see an aircraft come down. A very rare occasion just as this would […]
LAST week’s dire warnings from Defence Secretary Grant Shapps prompt the question of whether this is another Project Fear in the making and a dangerous ploy to condition us to accept a Global Defence Reset. Shapps asserted that in the next five years we could be at war with China, which has a military force of […]
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