I’m not so sure China won’t field 200+ J-20.

Undoubtedly China will eventually come to field far more than 200 J-20s and derivative designs. I would be surprised if fewer than 400 airframes are eventually produced, and numbers would only be so limited if a 6th generation replacement was ready to debut earlier than anticipated, which whilst plausible is hardly a comforting alternative for potential adversaries.

It’s bad enough FGFA will be higher RCS

Thee is no evidence that FGFA has greater RCS than J-20. Nor is RCS the be-all and end-all. If it were the F-35 would not exist and the F-22 would look very different.

India has been outnumbered and outgunned by China for a long time now, and will be for the forseeable future. I know it is difficult for the American mind to grasp that certain realities persist independent of policy decisions, but the rest of the world — including India — is quite accustomed to engaging with the world as it is and not as one might wish it to be.

What radar parts?

At the same time we are to believe Russia is getting MiG-29Ks itself, and not having the same issues (presumably, larger ones, since Ukraine wouldn’t sell the parts to Russia)….nah I don’t believe the whole “shipping to India and finishing construction there” story one bit.

Recall the laundry list of modifications India wanted for its “off-the-shelf” Rafale purchase. Could it be that Indian MiG-29Ks are similarly different from the “baseline” model that Russian Navy is receiving, and that Russia no longer has access to those parts?

Come on, it was an ill advised thing to say under the circumstances.

There is a rather large distance between “ill-advised” and “anti-semitic”.

And of course the reason it was ill-advised is because Corbyn should’ve known that there are a great many people who do not understand analogies, and a great many more who will pretend not to understand them if they can derive political or commercial benefit from doing so.

As for the rest: parties are not ends in themselves.

In my personal opinion however, a number of the above posts are getting close to an incitement to hatred.

As someone with a keen interest in global demographics, that video is appalling. Forget the racist/scaremongering undertones — so many of the figures themselves are just rubbish.

If the Westminster government say no at the moment the answer is that they dont secede.

If Westminster tries this then they’re even dumber than I think they are.

And again you manifest your inability to comprehend what is plainly written. And again you misrepresent what I have actually said. Fortunately this isn’t television, and everyone here can look back over this thread and see what you are doing. Feel free to take another month or ten off.

Well then your post was off topic and shouldn’t have been made in the first place and you were replying to a post that specifically addressed the Falklands.

Or maybe you should read what people write instead of what you imagine they write, though being accused of “constant hypocrisy” on a subject I’ve never once addressed was good for a laugh.

In any case, with the UK leaving the EU I’m sure that England, out of its love of liberty and the right to self-determination, will shortly relinquish sovereignty over Gibraltar, which voted 96% for remain.

Of all the articles I’ve read regarding Brexit over the last few weeks, this is one of the stand-outs, and not just because writer John Harris evokes Orwell so powerfully:

We all know the cruel irony that sits in the midst of all this story: that Britain – or what is left of it – will now take a sharp turn to the right, and the problems that have fed into this moment will only get worse. Well, there we are. History is rarely logical; until it really bites them, a lot of people will probably be more supportive of the kind of super-Thatcherism we may well be subjected to than a lot of other people would like. More to the point, if England and Wales have taken a drastic turn towards uncertainty and dysfunction, it will not be the first time. It is a difficult point to make at a moment like this, but politics will – must – go on. If we fear not just what this decision means for our country but how much it says about Britain’s underlying social condition, we will have to fight. But first, we will have to think, probably more deeply than ever.