I think a lot of AShMs could. A direct hit, or even a near miss from a Mk82 would destroy an MBT, so I’m pretty sure it would cause damage beyond the armour of any battleship too and plenty of missiles have 500lb class warheads, then you have stuff like P-700s, Kh-22s and DF-21Ds. I certainly wouldn’t volunteer to be inside the ship while all that is hitting it.

What good has having a vote and veto done us so far?

Have to say I don’t understand this at all. WTO trading doesn’t prevent imports coming from the EU, it doesn’t even force us to place maximum tariffs on everything just because we can. So unless the EU has stated that it will cut off all exports to the UK in the event of a no deal, I have no idea what this is about at all.

Same one you’ve been using until now unless told otherwise. As for the way things turned out, I think it’s fair to say that things turned out very different to what people signed up for in 1975 and even the EU turned out very different to the way it was in 1993. There’s also a Remain video on YouTube with a woman in Northern Ireland claiming that the only money they get round there is from the EU. I also think it’s fair to say that the Lisbon Treaty is basically the rejected EU Constitution rewritten as a treaty. So we were lied to in order to get us into the EU and lied to every step of the way since, so why is it so special even if someone did lie to get us out.

^December 13th 1986.

It is actually 40% to 16% but what the percentages don’t tell you is that the absolute magnitudes are 1:3. There is 3 times as much coming into the UK as going out. Therefore there is 3 times as much market to gain as to lose and/or 3 times as much to collect in tariffs, not to mention that a no deal would avoid the £40bn divorce bill. Staying until the end of 2020 would involve us paying more of this divorce bill (circa £20bn of it) and at the end of 2020 we would still be stuck with this same stalemate. Better to get out now and save that £20bn and collect up to £30bn in tariffs.

The storm was known about several days in advance, that’s enough for an emergency response. I have seen an F-22 loaded into a C-5 before and I know it can be done. I also know that when the ASTRA(?) crashed at Boscombe Down in the UK it took only 36 hours to divert such resources from the other side of the Atlantic and have it gone.

That seems like a whole shed load less work than trying to fix a dozen storm-battered stealth fighters. But I agree that a C-5 would probably be the way to go, not lorry.