End of the Royal Navy??

[DanCanovas]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Chock's knocked it on the head, we need to stop pretending that we're the old "Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves!"....we don't even rule the English Channel any more! Or any of the seas around us come to think of it! We need to pull ourselves out of global affairs, rebuild and repair our forces, rebuild and repair our country...and then re-emerge a stronger and better nation for it. At the moment we're so wrapped up in foreign affairs, acting like we're the old Great British nation, that at home, things have fallen apart completely.

I think poor domestic and defence policy contributes.