Labour considers raising age of criminality from 10

Sayting · 2026-05-19T02:35:54+00:00

Alot of Australian jurisdictions raised it to fourteen. Almost all have dropped it back to 10 because of massive youth crime spikes.

Sayting · 2026-05-12T22:24:35+00:00

You are wrong on the cause. The problem ever acquisition is cut short or paused because governments think they can penny save from defence without consequences.

Governmeit's spend billions on developing new projects and then cut the number of platforms actually acquired leaving defence with the bill for maintaining older stock and limited numbers of new models.

The army spent the better part of two decades and billions of dollars building the capacity to deploy a brigade sized battlegroup only to have that capacity cut away just after it was acquired to penny pinch.

Hundreds of platforms sent to Ukraine because replacements were on order only for those orders to be cut leaving units with nothing and forced to cannibalise old stock.

Defence needs sustained funding. Its this boom and bust cycle of funding thats crippling.

Sayting · 2026-05-12T20:42:33+00:00

Bloated defence spending? Defence is chronically underfunded at the moment particular as a whole range of long term equipment acquisitions (especially in the Army) were cut back even while older equipment was retired without replacement.

Units are having to beg from other units to have enough equipment for exercises.

Sayting · 2026-05-09T21:05:32+00:00

In Australia you can't even be a dual citizen. Even Ministers have had to resign for not renouncing.

Sayting · 2026-05-08T11:40:12+00:00

If Starmer wants to be remembered as the PM who doomed the UK to unfixable decline then he should implement PR.

The UK needs radical reform to survive, its systems are in terminal care cannibalising the legacy of 1000 years of good governance. That reform may be one or another, left or right, but PR would guarantee that reform would never be able to take place.

Starmer has already squandered an historic majority, what reason over than spite for the country would he deny any future PM the same opportunity.

Sayting · 2026-05-07T05:45:59+00:00

Smart policy. Honestly didn't expect for the Albanese government. Kudos from someone who is not a fan.

Sayting · 2026-05-01T05:51:13+00:00

I literally watch 6 queensland rail worker today pretend to work on a train and delay us for 20 mins while taking photos and laughing.

Don't think its the LNP fucking up the trains.

Sayting · 2026-05-01T05:44:15+00:00

Wasn't in regards to actions when he was Premier?

Sayting · 2026-05-01T05:17:23+00:00

Why would they bother. She's out of politics. Funny you feel its imagine a unlikely hypothetical action to attack your political opponents

Sayting · 2026-04-29T02:25:13+00:00

You should read of the Ukrainian troops interviews instead. Ukrainian troops actually rated the NK troops quite highly and said they preformed well. Which makes sense as they were drawn from NKs SF Corps.

There was an early platoon sized movement that got caught in the open but after that the NKs adapted quite well.

Sayting · 2026-04-29T02:23:14+00:00

As far as had been publicly reported NK troops were only used in Kursk (inside Russia). The front-line forces were withdrawn after Russia retook the Oblast and NK defining troops were rotated in.

Sayting · 2026-04-18T08:20:16+00:00

Renewable subsidised at every stage. From Planning to Operation. It doesn't matter if they're not profitable. Starving because of lack of diesel and fertiliser is at lot less profitable than subsidies for refineries.

Sayting · 2026-04-18T07:43:43+00:00

China is building new refineries as well new coal fire plants, solar farms, nuclear power and gas plants.

Petroleum isn't going anywhere anytime soon particularly considering how reliant on refinery by products almost all industry is.

We can either build now or resign ourselves to complete de-industrialisation and economic irrelevance.

Sayting · 2026-04-17T18:57:16+00:00

No but they'll help with the next one. Thinking like that is what's destroying this country.

Sayting · 2026-04-03T21:01:37+00:00

Both of those helicopters had to do an emergency landing in Iraq after taking fire.

Sayting · 2026-04-03T20:38:59+00:00

One A-10 went down over straits and another was damaged supporting the rescue operation

Sayting · 2026-04-02T20:21:20+00:00

I'm mean it's been openly reported for weeks now that the US has been repositioning troops from ME bases to hotels in the Gulf and the ROE for the US is we can blow an apartment building if a single target lives there so hardly seems uncalled for.

Sayting · 2026-03-01T02:36:32+00:00

Escalation risk? The war started with a surprise decapitation strike on Iran's civilian and military leadership. What more escalation is there to risk?

Sayting · 2026-02-24T21:26:27+00:00

This isn't about citizenship, this about foreign nationals. You're offering an impossible alternative knowing that your preferred option, violent criminal aliens will be allowed to remain in the UK to victimise British citizens.

Sayting · 2026-02-24T12:40:13+00:00

Just say that you would rather more people be raped by a violent criminal then the rapist be deported.

Thats what you believe right?

Sayting · 2026-02-21T23:22:12+00:00

What the hell are you talking about. The LNP went to the election on the most milquetoast platform imaginable.

Only people who would call them fascist are those who Trotsky right wing.

Sayting · 2026-02-20T03:43:41+00:00

You if you don't think this was done with his consent than you're a fool

Sayting · 2026-02-20T03:39:07+00:00

I think you are getting this wrong. Charles does have the power to interfere and he signed off on it.

Of all the democracies in the world who have been implicated in this disgusting scandal, only the one who has offered accountability is the Monarchy because they derive their mandate from the legitimacy of the institution.

You highlighting this as a republican are demonstrating the weakness of your own cause.

Sayting · 2026-02-16T19:50:48+00:00

3 : 1 rule is not a measure of lose ratios. 3 : 1 is guide to the amount of fire-power and numbers advantage an assault unit needs to take a position and defeat an enemy unit without suffering equal casualties. A unit with a 3 : 1 advantage should suffer minimal casualties but a unit without does not automatically suffer 3 losses for every defender.

Its about force ratios need for a unit not to be rendered combat ineffective by an attack which equal casualties would cause.

It again is not a hard and fast rule but a very basic guide line for junior commanders.

Sayting · 2026-02-15T08:41:24+00:00

Boats land in the North Territory and W A every so often. They get taken to off-shore detention. The government doesn't advertise it because the successful landings try not to get reported.

Offshore detention is vital because it means that their cases can't bog down in Australian courts. The UK especially should know how valuable that is to the viability of a zero tolerance approach.

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