Refreshing truthful #Shapps. Why can't sitting politicians also speak the truth? Also why did Schapps hold back on #Putin's "hold" over #Krasnov?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/17/grant-shapp-trump-russia?CMP=share_btn_url
Grant #Shapps is a former internet get-me-rich-quick hustler who used numerous fake aliases. By the law of averages his opinions occasionally randomly coincide with good sense, but he and most of his wretched useless English Nationalist confederates have been ousted by the British Electorate. The UK Defence Secretary is the eminently shrewd John Healey , and extraneous views now offered by "Michael Green" sorry Grant Shapps on the subject are just so much irrelevant chatter.
Spiv #Shapps can't resist using his valedictory to list his numerous cabinet positions; testimony only to the chaos we have had to endure, and to his personal vanity.
British defence minister Grant #Shapps accused #China on Wednesday of providing or preparing to provide #Russia with lethal aid for use in its war against #Ukraine.
Shapps told a conference in London that #US and British defence intelligence had evidence that "lethal aid is now, or will be, flowing from China to Russia and into Ukraine, I think it is a significant development".
"The world cannot wait, #Ukraine needs us to step up so they have what they need to push #Putin back.
That’s exactly what the #UK has done today.
A full breakdown of what we’ve rushed to Ukraine to support the men and women fighting on freedom’s frontline:"
- Grant #Shapps, UK Secretary of State for Defence
"I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!"
Terry Pratchett; Guards Guards!!
#Discworld #Zahawi #BringBackJohnsonGuff #Shapps #MulitplePersonalities #Kuenssberg #JustGo #GeneralElectionNOW
The U.K. will not force or persuade #Ukraine to accept a bad peace treaty, especially one that entails the loss of territory, said Defense Secretary Grant #Shapps in an interview with Times Radio on May 14.
The comments follow reporting by the Sunday Times that U.K. Foreign Secretary David #Cameron had allegedly personally pitched a peace plan to presumptive #Republican presidential nominee Donald #Trump.
New ships will help fight future wars
This BBC story is a mess
#Shapps, not a reliable witness, said 3 ships would "definitely" be built & "plans to construct the next 3"
"definitely" - is there a contract let? "plans" from #toriesOut are meaningless - We'll evict them soon
"golden era of ship building"
What's he on? Most of our yards shut down decades ago!
It appears currently just 2 submarines are under construction - presumably at Barrow - under a 1994 contract
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68947242
Grant #Shapps, formerly Energy Minister, signed off on policy without considering evidence, finds High Court. He "assumed" targets "would be met".
Now Grant Shapps is #Tory Defence Minister. Every day, we must assume he now signs off on defence policy, without evidence, assuming Britannia rules the waves, and that there's nothing that can compare to the British Grenadiers.
He's a former "get rich quick" web marketer who traded under the pseudonym "Michael Green".
MP Mark Menzies loses Tory whip as party investigates claims he misused funds | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mark-menzies-tory-mp-funds-b2530658.html
#Menzies
#Tories
#Whip
#MisuseOfMoney
#CampaignFunds
#MisuseOfCampaignFunds
#PayOffBadPeople
#MedicalExpenses
#InternationalEnvoy
#Labour
#Rayner
#DoubleStandards
#Dodds
#Holden
#Sunak
#Professionalism
#Integrity
#Accountability
#CCHQ
#FlydeWestminsterGroup
#Shapps
#Cooper
#LibDems
Grant #Shapps has abandoned a trip to #Ukraine’s southern city of #Odesa, reportedly because of a Russian missile threat.
The #UK Defence Secretary had to abort the visit earlier this month after he was warned by #British intelligence that the Russians had become aware of his travel plans, according to a Sunday Times report confirmed by a source close to Mr Shapps.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/17/shapps-calls-off-odesa-visit-after-russian-warning/
Andy Davey: #JeremyHunt promises pensioners he will keep the pension triple lock. Meanwhile a plot by right-wing Tory MPs to replace #Sunak with #Mordaunt is in play. #Shapps too. So the election strategy is on track – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal on an RAF aircraft carrying British Defence Secretary #Grant #Shapps back from Poland, according to government sources.
Defence sources said there was no danger to Shapps, who was travelling back to the UK, though they called it a “wildly irresponsible” act of #electronic #warfare.
It is understood that the #GPS signal was interfered with for about 30 minutes while the plane flew close to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.
#Mobile #phones could no longer connect to the internet and the aircraft was forced to use alternative methods to determine its location, the source said.
"I’m in #Kyiv to raise the alarm to the democratic world - we must make sure #Ukraine wins this war.
The #UK has stepped up to do more than ever, with our largest military support package to date. Every nation must now do the same and ensure freedom triumphs over tyranny."
- Rt Hon Grant #Shapps, UK Secretary of State for Defence
As a daily follower of the leading Ukrainian u-tube military commentators, like Denys Davidov, there is a bitter irony from their frequent reference to British Intelligence.
If we British are so intelligent, why did we take our lead from nationalist twits like Farage to vote in 2016 to destabilise & weaken the European Union in the wake of occupation of Crimea in 2014?
And why is a zero like #Shapps (aka Michael Green internet get-rich-quick snakeoil salesman) Defence Secretary?!
Creating two separate states is the only solution to ending the conflict between #Israel and #Palestine, the defence secretary has said
#GrantShapps said it was "disappointing" that Israel's prime minister has rejected the idea
Benjamin #Netanyahu's position was not "a surprise", he told the #BBC
But Mr #Shapps said #Palestine "deserved" a sovereign state, adding "I really don't see that there is another solution"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68046625 #MiddleEast #News
For any now remotely-interested, in 2016 #Shapps supplied the minimum-expected, and spectacularly pusilanimous, endorsement of "remain" on grounds of interests of "business" , but blithely unconcerned by regional geopolitical ramifications of the Russian revanchist annexation of Crimea.
A former online entrepreneur with all the strategic insight and clout of a tomato, not qualified or fit to hold the High Office with which he has been entrusted by Prime Minister #Sunak
#EnglishNationalistsOut
#Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, when London was awash with oligarch cash. Shapps-brand English Nationalists made #Brexit core-policy in 2016 & succeeded in 2020, doing their utmost to foment copycat folly by member states. Putin, apprehending European weakness (France then only remaining EU member state with an independent nuclear deterent), occupied more of Ukraine in 2022. What are EU citizens to make of reading of divisive nationalist halfwits like #Shapps purporting to 'lead our allies'?
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