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Hi Jam,
Well, our navy is now smaller than the French, Indian & Chinese Navys; the "carriers" we have are jumped up cruisers; frigates and destroyers you can count on both hands and we've a couple of subs....conditions for the matelots may be better, though - these days they have separate showers for the girls amongst them.
The point about having a decent navy is that it should be more powerful than other navies. Simple. While we can never compete with the Yanks for size, at least we should be in a position to tell our European "chums" what to do. Can we? Answer no. We have surrendered our maritime heritage & our fishing grounds to that bunch of rogues called the Common Market....Anyone can come in & empty the North Sea of whatever fish is in there - Frogs, Spaniards, Danes - you name 'em. Anyone that is, apart from the British fishing fleet whose quota this year restricts them to not much more than a couple of cans of sardines.
Get out the EU, rebuild our Navy and sort out this Euro Riff-Raff A.S.A.P., that's what I say.
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