Finally, Dragon Has Sailed.

HMS Dragon has finally left Portsmouth, a week after receiving orders to prepare to go to sea.

Two full days on the ammunition pontoon suggests she is taking a full load-out with her. She is apparently expecting action. 

I'm glad the Captain and the Admirals in charge are taking no chances, but it does give an indication of what paper tigers we have for Warships under normal circumstances. Warships with no weapons are not warships. They are just training barges. 

The government's whole attitude to defence needs a complete bloody shakeup. These are weapons of war, not gin palaces. They are not floating exhibition centres either.

The MOD needs to give it's head a wobble and start being the Ministry of DEFENCE. At the very least, it should be able to defend this country from any and all threats external. 

As a side task, it should also be ready to defend the public from larger internal threats that the Police cannot control.

3-5 years. I give them 3-5 years before they will be called on.

I Called it: MODs Lack of Air Defences in Clear View.

Well, the Iranian attack on Akrotiri Airbase has shown, in clear view, the lack of Air Defences at UK airbases.

I predicted this last year: Delphius' Debate: British Military Wargamers Panic About Lack of Anti-Air Assets in the UK.

I also predicted that the only option we would have would to be deploy Type 45 Destroyers in the path of any incoming air threat, because that's the only assets we have capable of air defence. We have no land-based air defence assets capable of taking out drones.

Today HMS Dragon, a type 45 Destroyer, leaves Portsmouth headed for Cyprus. A multi-billion pound asset, designed to defend a carrier fleet, sent to defend an island against drones that cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. 

A single Sea Ceptor missile costs around two million pounds. 

This is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. 

The MOD really needs to get on the case procuring a cheap, reliable air defence system capable of defending against drones. 

Ideally a layered system, with small, cheap guided missiles providing longer range defence, then for close in work, we can have laser weapons mounted on mobile units (so they are not set in fixed, attackable positions) that can be moved around an airfield. 

There are already systems available that can intercept ballistic missiles. Luckily the UK is too far away from Iran to be concerned with those (although it's not beyond the Iranians to develop the facility to launch missiles (say) from a beached ship).

But again, it would be prudent to look at procuring an air defence system capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, because we will require a defence against them eventually. 

And the 6 type 45 destroyers we have won't protect the UK indefinitely. They can't defend two carriers at sea and the UK as well, all at the same time. 

The UK and it's military bases at home and abroad are inadequately defended. It's time that changed in response to the increased threat from cheap drone-type threats.

Where Next for the Muslim Bloc Vote?

Labour lost the Muslim Bloc Vote (MBV) and therefore lost the Denton & Gorton by-election. 

The MBV landed with the Greens and they won. The interesting thing is that Labour didn't really see it coming. They were still pandering to Muslims during the campaign.

You have to ask why they didn't see it. Were they lied to by the Muslim community?

The reasons for the desertion is clear. Starmer the Sociopath doesn't care who he pisses off. He'll quite easily lock up a concerned mother posting on X. He's pissed off the pensioners, the freedom lovers, the wealthy and the poor, but he's also pissed off his main voting bloc. 

When it comes to Muslims, he's had the Police raiding the money laundering fronts like barbers. It's not been made very public, but quietly there have been big raids in some areas where it's got too fucking obvious to ignore. When every other shop is a barbers, there's no way they're doing 100Ks worth of business. 

So the Police go in, with dogs and not only do they find cooked books, they find drugs. There's always a sub plot, be it drugs, under the counter baccy or whatever. 

But the raids have got so big, the criminal gangs that run the Islamic community have disassociated themselves from Labour. 

The real threat of a grooming gang enquiry has also ruffled some feathers. Mainly because huge numbers of Muslim men were involved, include clan leaders. It's unacceptable that they would be investigated. They are above the law, in their eyes.

So, the MBV has switched to the Greens. Time was, the main focus of Green Party policy was whether we were recycling enough. Now, it's all about Gaza, a war that has nothing to do with the Denton and Gorton constituency. There are no major arms factories supplying Israel located there. There are no airfields launching strikes into Gaza there. 

But that's the Green party's main focus in Denton & Gorton. 

Green party policy has morphed into pro-Islamic rhetoric, because it bestows them votes. 

And yet Green Party supporters say that there has been no shift towards being an Islamic party. So where were the Green policies during the by-election? Support for a Tram link from Manchester City Centre through Reddish to Gorton and Denton? Support for Andy Burham's re-invention of bus operation with Bee Network buses?

Nope. Gaza, Gaza, Gaza. 

Restore Britain has a hard task ahead.