OrangeRKN wrote:captain red dog wrote:Utter stupidity from the British and the French. If you know anything about the Navy, its another case of Johnson the clown. Those two ships are pretty much dossing around all day doing strawberry float all, would be no good in anything more than a very minor skirmish.
It's a PR stunt
Exactly. It's done to rile up Mail or Sun voters. It serves no purpose, those ships will not be able to do anything more than float about within eye shot of the protestors.
Apparently the French are now sending navy ships too. Utterly pointless and wasteful exercise. We've gone from WW2 nostalgia to Peninsula War nostalgia in a matter of weeks.