Royal Navy: Sinking

According to the current American President, Britain "has no navy". An exaggeration, of course, but not one very far from the truth. Even General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, Britain’s First Sea Lord, claims that the Royal Navy is not ready for war. This is a disgraceful situation, because the whole point of having a standing army, air force and navy is for that very reason. Wars cannot always be predicted and neither do they form an orderly queue. The raison d'être of a nation’s military is to be ready for war.

Once the fear of the world, the Royal Navy patrolled the globe’s largest and most widely flung empire, defending our tiny island against Continental fascists and invaders, while also policing the oceans to liberate enslaved captives. It is now barely capable of responding to troubles in the Middle East, a far cry from the famous 1982 exchange between Mrs Thatcher and Admiral Sir Henry Leach on the eve of the Falklands War:

“How long would it take to assemble a task force?”

“48 hours.”

His Majesty’s current government cannot be entirely blamed for the Navy’s poor state; previous Conservative administrations had regularly underfunded and been all too willing to hide under Uncle Sam’s coattails, which the current Whitehouse increasingly resents. Although our nation’s moral, spiritual and Christian decline is far worse than our military’s, the sorry state of His Majesty's Naval Service is an apt and distressing picture of our national fortunes.

As we legislate the killing of our children and elderly, encourage false religion, tolerate heterodox theology from church pulpits and abandon and disdain our Christian heritage, the God of heaven further withdraws His blessing from our degenerate isles. May He have mercy.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34

A. D