Mark “Beaker” Bate
@BeakerBate
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Former RAF | Independent Ship Pilot | Delivering Future Pilots | BSc IP + SS Aberystwyth | MSt IR Cambridge
Somewhere in Sol
Joined December 2023
We are at the stage of just sinking them and letting them find out the hard way. When will enough be just that? https://t.co/RgilWTqmFk
news.sky.com
In the darkness of the dunes more than 100 migrants are poised, getting ready to run.
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Look @PaulKennard18 we can just copy the 🇧🇼 defend force for NMH 😬😬😬😬yes I know it’s a 189 but don’t tell anyone that it’s essentially the same as a 149 🤣🤣
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Oddly I find myself in complete agreeance, now if only we could roll back bloated regional governance starting with pointless Mayors……….
I am abolishing Police and Crime Commissioners. For over a decade, they have overseen our police forces but have failed to provide the sufficient democratic oversight they were set up to do. A change that will save us millions and see money reinvested into frontline policing.
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By raising taxation across the board? This is becoming the Baldrick bean 🫘 counting scene……..
We had the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in the first half of the year, but there's more to do to build an economy that works for working people. At the Budget I'll take the fair choices to cut waiting lists, cut national debt and cut the cost of living.
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Two years after selecting the @BoeingDefense E-7A #Wedgetail as an interim #AWACS successor, @NATO has now abandoned the acquisition as "the strategic and financial basis has disappeared" -
defensie.nl
Nederland ziet samen met een aantal partnerlanden af van de verwerving van 6 Boeing E-7 Wedgetails. Ze waren in beeld als opvolger van de Boeings E-3A, die nu als Awacs-toestellen worden gebruikt....
.@NATO selects @BoeingDefense E-7A #Wedgetail for its #AWACS replacement. Six aircraft to be delivered to @NATOAWACS, to begin operations from 2031... https://t.co/f7pIgcfWHa
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ZERO credibility, the U.K. is a laughing stock.
The Ministry of Defence has said it is too early to confirm when the British Army’s new RCH 155 wheeled artillery system will enter service, though the project aims to achieve "minimum deployable capability within this decade". Click image for more. https://t.co/uu3L3llMQc
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Oh look, something else I’ll be supporting 🙄🙄🙄
YouGov’s latest polling on the two child benefit cap: it remains overwhelmingly popular across all demographics - including Labour voters, and lower income voters who support it the most. Begs the question, scrapping it - at a cost of £3bn a year - gains the votes of who?
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An Argentine Navy aircraft keeping a watch on Chinese fishing militia vessel operating illegally inside the country's waters. The menace of Chinese fishing militia is spreading like wildfire. They are destroying fishing resources all over the world! @poyjampoy @Jay83214566
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Yes, but. Surely even you can see the obvious be it 47 or Gaza…….oh wait, forgot, I’m paying for it 🙄🙄
I joined #bbc as a trainee 50 years ago next year. That makes me one of its longest serving employees after David Attenborough. He got the planet.I got the building sites on it.I love this noble institution & it runs through me like a stick of rock @BBCBreaking
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Where’s Waldo? 😄 A Mirage 2000 prototype with some assembly required at Dassault’s Saint-Cloud facility (Circa 1977).
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Another successful day on Saturday, some gems in the local record shop, better times…..
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Hard to disagree.
Lammy is the logical conclusion of ‘multiculturalism’ + DEI politics — a useless prick humiliating the country, the Commons and ‘black people’. If he were assistant manager in JD Sports the 18 yr old staff would say ‘over-promoted prick get rid of him’. If Labour keep putting
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Thanks, decision made, will stick with my ICE. This along with ever increasing BiK for those on work EV schemes makes it unattractive.
🚘 EXCLUSIVE 🚘 A new pay-per-mile tax will be unveiled in the Budget for electric cars which will kick in from 2028 It will cost the average eco driver £250 a year and longer-distance travellers much more than that It will be levied at 3p per mile on current Treasury plans.
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🚀 Join us LIVE for Electron’s 74th mission and 6th launch for @QPS_inc, “The Nation God Navigates.”
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Uber this morning and the driver is playing tunes by Elvis but with an Italian makeover, bizarrely a stress free journey.
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They call It Islamophobia we call it…👇 In Iran I was told if I don’t wear hijab, I get kicked out from school, I get jailed, lashes, beaten up & kicked out from my country. In the West I’m told, sharing these stories will cause Islamophobia. #LetUsTalk
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Can’t disagree with this, let’s see how the upcoming training over the next 2 weeks with Italy goes now that she’s in the Med. https://t.co/HLimlrweUH
telegraph.co.uk
What Darth Vader has to teach us about Defence project management
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