Grant Shapps will hail a “golden age for British shipbuilding” in a speech at the Sea Power Conference in central London today as the Conservatives continue their push to talk about defence.
The defence secretary will announce that “up to” six new warships to support the Royal Marines will be commissioned.
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5 months and he will be gone. Finito.
Grant says all kinds of things that do not come true…………….. The Navy chief sounds like a Tory fan boy.
The navy is the smallest its ever been and we have not got enough aircraft for the carriers.
Nord 2 stream attacks, done by America, where are the navy he said people say, over the horizon, he said 🤣no in dry dock getting repaired
Is this so we can pick up more people in the channel, because that’s what we need in the U.K, is more people !
I remember when Cameron hailed the Golden Decade with Chinese investment in infrastructure about 10 years ago…
.. Fast forward to today and we're being hacked by them (allegedly)
It's just a rumour that was spread around town.
Where is the steel going to come from? China? Not Britain for sure
Who was the last British defense minister?
If we give the contracts to Fergusons they should be ready in 100 years 😂
BRING BACK THE DREADNOUGHTS
What a load of waffle, and why is he trying to speak like a statesman other doesn't suit him
Why warships?
Clueless
Any being built in England ? Wales? NI ? …. or just all in Scotland ???
Bring back engineering, there's no youth being trained in engineering… Its dire
Waste of money
Is that to terrorise other countries and make out we are the good guys?
Are they upgrading the 5 newest OPV which we are using as gunboats
Like the 40 hospitals
SHAPPS IS LYING YET AGAIN, ALL THIS WAS DONE 5 YEARS AGO
All this sabre-rattling by a country which cannot even control its borders! As for "new warships", they will almost certainly be obsolete as soon as they are commissioned due to massive technical advance in weaponry eg lasers, missiles and electronic warfare. The Russians are streets ahead in this.
Shut the door on your way out.
Im absolutely convinced that the pe
ople at the top are as thick as mince. bUkraine has just crippled Russias blasck sea fleet using what?…remote conrol explosive canoes. What a massive waste of taxpayers money this is.
The various missiles China has means ships are over rated, why is he covering a genocide with our navy
Who does he think actually listens to him and believes a word he says?
Clap trap.
They are not talking about the right now situation they have a positive plan for future generations oh come on all chatting negatively because they push them to react negatively until all have nothing at least this country will not let them have negative views about the future oh come on .😊😊😊😊
The current T45s and currently building T26s and T31s are perfectly adequate, or would be if they ever receive their full intended weapons fits instead of our Whitehall and Westminster vermin leaving them half armed i.a.w. their standard FFBNW lie. Above all, the ships require full appropriate strike length VLS installations suitable for each class. Meanwhile, ALL the remaining T23s need a minimum viable fit of 8 x deck canister launched NSMs in addition to the already installed CAMM Sea Ceptor AAW fit.
Come on, not again, spend money on education or healthcare.
28 bath tubs blah blah blah no taps no weapons no jets no lasers no missiles yada yada yada
Aw shut up what waste of breath to get a few votes
About as true as the 40 new hospital's
Vassals lol
Whatever party is in next they need to continue with the investment into our armed forces. I would also like to see the number of our army increase. /that is pathetically low.
We have plenty engineers arriving in uk daily
How about more F35 to fully fill the carriers
He is good but what a mess these popple have made
Can't Shapps previously wore a name badge pretending to be Michael Green and resigned from government over a tragic bullying scandal. Research The Guardian articles.
We are Going on a Massive Ship building Program. First we have to Retire Everything we have In the Current Fleet to Pay for it 😂😂😂
As long as they aren’t Built in Scotland. The Type 45s and Carriers are a Mess.
Ridiculous puppets to US foreign policy
‘We outrank Russia in terms of submarines ‘……? Is that correct . I don’t think so
Lets wait and see if they come good.
I hope they do as it will be fantastic for our country and our armed forces🇬🇧🇬🇧
So what about HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark that I’ve been informed from the inside is getting sold to pay off a certain area that can’t be said on social media?
Selling these will help fill up the much needed help on the shortages of the other ships of staff issues we have at the moment but that’s the only plus!
This has been kept under wraps and if public knew the real reason there would be uproar because it leaves our fleet and especially our flagships without refuelling and other resources being able to be transferred from ship to ship meaning more stop offs or relying on other countries to fill the gaps. This isn’t what the government portrayed when we unveiled the 2 new flag ships at all.
Let’s hope they build them better than the two new carriers
What a total clown .