John you forgot to try to deny that you are trying the big lie routine. Oops.

You keep trying to throw out these meaningless sound bytes in the hopes that everyone’s forgotten what you’ve done and you can gloss over it all. “It’s everyone’s job to pull together now for the good of the country….bluster….harrumph.”. In other words ‘we’ve made a huge mess please fix it so we can claim victory’.

Credibility John?. It’s at the same level as your dignity!

Usually stories that far off the truth are the domain of the Daily Mail, not the Telegraph, aren’t they?.

I must have missed something. When, if ever, did Britannia fill her decks with battle scarred warriors receiving the tender ministrations of nursing and surgical medicos?

Whilst she never had to be so converted…..consideration was given to this for Corporate in ’82 but was shelved under odd circumstances….she did coordinate and assist with the evacuation of friendlies in the Aden action in ’68 including pulling out over 1000 friendlies herself.

Details for her war role as follows:

The Royal Yacht Britannia was designed as a dual function vessel – a Royal Yacht in peacetime and a hospital ship in times of hostility.

There was extensive consultation with the Medical Director General of the Royal Navy during the design phase both to determine the requirements for the ship in the hospital ship role; and to ensure that the conversion could be performed in the most economic manner with minimal alteration to the existing structure and equipment.

As a hospital ship Britannia had accommodation for 200 patients with the wards in the after part of the ship where the Royal Apartments are usually located. While most patients were anticipated to be medical and surgical cases provision was made to cater for patients with tuberculosis and infectious diseases.

Provision was made for operating theatres, ophthalmic facilities, physiotherapy facilities, X-ray facilities, and pathology laboratories all on the lower deck. Provision was also made for a full dental clinic, including laboratory, on the main deck. In addition the sun deck located aft was specially strengthened to permit the landing of helicopters for casualty evacuations.

Although normally manned by a Royal Navy crew, when operating as a hospital ship, Britannia would have been manned by a merchant navy crew in accordance with international law.

This is why the earlier assertion that ‘just buy some billionaires cast off megayacht’ wouldnt quite do the job…HMY needs to be quite a bit more than just a toffs gin palace. I’ve only found one design I think would fit the program for a replacement Royal Yacht…..problem is it’d cost the price of a decent frigate and its Dutch!. Appledore could build it I’m sure but I think the point is to showcase British talent and expertise!.

Do you know who pays for its upkeep ?

She’s in commission in the Royal Danish Navy. She is an independent command funded through their defence budget and, like Britannia, has a secondary war role as a modest scale hospital ship.

As, certainly up to the last figures I saw, Denmark was a net contributor to the EU there is very little possible chance that anyone outside of Denmark has funded this ship to even the tiniest extent.

Well, that’s all pretty predictable. Further terrorist outrages in the U.S of A plastered all over the media. But, on this forum, nicht; denada; sweet f.a. It hasn’t happened.

After all, what are just three more terrorist attacks compared with ten billion peaceloving Muslims ? A percentage so tiny as not to raise a flicker on the register of public outrage. At least, not on this forum of occasional public outrage.

Hypocrites and humbugs all !

For the last time, from me anyway, John you will be told that you are not fooling anyone. The outrages of which you speak, as with the similar ones in Europe, have been identified for what they are. The uncoordinated acts of the socially inadequate…..claimed, where they even bother, by an ISIS so desperate for profile that even now it is talking of its status post caliphate collapse.

The irony is that the only people more desperate for attention, than the extremists, are those who are trying to paint them as an unstoppable and fearful wave ready to wash us and our Western way of life off the map. It is vastly amusing that, just as both groups become marginalised and left behind by genuine progress, they finally find that they had one indelible characteristic in common. An utter dependence on a steady stream of gullible fools to swallow their agenda and a terror when the supply of idiots finally dries up!.

I not only absorb lessons; I write them.

Nothing askew except in your imagination. The trend is upwards. Stick around – you’ll see. But, be very afraid for the Euro.

John….do you know what QE is?. You cant say the economy is doing well when we’re having to dump billions in to make it so.

The trend is not upwards…were hoping the trend is flat. Check out where the pound is against the dollar. Its still a good 10-15% down on where it was averaging pre-June. Against the Euro its 15% off still. These aren’t correcting. We import more than we export John these drops are hurting us….and we’ve not hit the crunch point of leaving yet.

John,

I thought you had already absorbed the lesson on this?. The BoE having to drop £10bn in QE in to the economy to keep it propped up is bad. We dont need QE when the economy is growing….which it was doing nicely….until the vote.

Tell me again John what was the net UK contribution to the EU in 2015?. Haven’t we just had to have more of a stimulus package from the Bank than an entire years contribution to the EU?.

Sorry John I know the term stimulus package is, in your lexicon, more commonly something needed after a toff ‘night out’ but to the business community it shows things are just a bit more askew than is being admitted!.

Damn, that was funnier than mine.

Ahh but let’s face it not everyone has a straight man like John Green to work with!. I have unfair advantage 😀