Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.

March 11, 2026 - 12:13 UTC

91
41
1802
Can you imagine if a hacker took control of her x feed and filled her page full of posts with thousands of likes saying if the UK had any balls we would become world leaders again and nuke Iran? I'd put a tenner on her standing up in the commons the next day calling for nuke strikes.
0
0
1
It takes a long time to pack enough teabags for the voyage.
0
0
1
She's thick as two short planks.
2
0
22
You sound like an understanding soul in the right job.
Why is it being sent?
4
0
0
If she’d read her brief she would have realised that 2 short planks are key to the Tory Navy Building Strategy
1
0
9
I think she has it in her head that preparing a high tech naval ship for a potential war zone situation, is a bit like kicking the tires, and making sure you've topped up the coolant before jumping into your car for a tedious trip Devon.
0
0
16
If she was PM given her views on tax and spending cuts HMS Dragon would have left a week ago to the scrapyard.
0
0
30
The front fell off.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
1
0
35
Brilliant. The Australian long Johns.
1
0
2
When does government cease blaming the previous government for governmental failures? It's a demockery not democracy.
0
0
0
Rubbish to my mind, it does not matter when it arrives,it can not really use any arms when it does ,the limited amount of missiles are incredibly expensive and not used against very much less valuable drones,if they did fire off one or two they would then have to get more from Gib. 2000 miles away
1
0
1
Speak to your dealer. He's not giving you the good stuff.
0
0
0
She thinks it’s like Thunderbirds when Thunderbird 2 loads a pod with the right equipment and Thunderbirds are go.
1
0
9
F.A.B. Ms Badenoch!
0
0
1
Empty vessels make most noise .
0
0
0
The Tories have a poor track record when it comes to ocean going vessels. Remember when they procured the services of a ferry company with no ships and t&cs copied from a pizza delivery web site?
0
0
2
yea, it had just finished maintenance. so obv no weaponry
0
0
1
Badenoch is a very good example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing
0
0
0
She appears to operate as LOTO on a vibes-led basis, so she probably just assumes everyone else can as well.
0
0
0
What does she know - they were only in power for 14y until 2024!
0
0
0
It could all be moot, there’s a decent chance the boat will breakdown before it gets to the Med.
0
0
1
And with no mission in mind, other than leaving?
0
0
0
If she was Prime Minister we'd be in such a state HMS Dragon would probably have been turned into an asylum seekers' holding pen.
0
0
1
We could have put the ReformUK and Tory MPs on it instead.
0
0
2
Absolutely none serious person.
0
0
0
😎😂 Rule Britannia!
0
0
0
But she’s not prime minister and hopefully never will be. Best hope for England is Zack.
0
0
0
Hopefully with her on it
0
0
1
She needs to be able to discern when she is fantising. Very unhealthy sharing of hers here.
0
0
2
5,000 Big Macs and some pea-shooters. Genius
0
0
0
On recent experience, likely that HMS Dragon would have spent 15 minutes in her company and then left Portsmouth Harbour to join the Reform Party
0
0
7
She really is monumentally dumb .Whoever briefs her needs to start wearing big boy trousers.
1
0
8
Do you think she would listen to someone briefing her? With her ego?
1
0
13
Totally inept.
Heaven help us if she ever becomes PM.
0
0
1
If she and her party were still in power, we'd have a Navy consisting of two men in a row boat and a dog called Colin (as lookout).

Keep going, show the electorate how unfit you are Toxic Tory (soon to Deform).
0
0
0
Presumably not to shoot down any missiles, ‘cos they don’t do that according to her last week.. just to hang around in the Med
0
0
0
First time I have listened to PMQ’s for ages - she really is a moron and has zero self awareness.
0
0
14
She continues to be spectacularly uninformed
1
0
0
I think a better word is ignorant, uninformed suggests nobody is trying to explain stuff to her in words of one syllable
0
0
1
The tories reduced our warships from 24 to 13 from 2010 to 2025 , source uk defense journal , badenoch didnt mention this when spouting her drivel once again
0
0
1
A particularly dumb comment that doesn't show much understanding of the situation.
0
0
1
She just can’t help herself.
0
0
0
Leader of oppostion thinks she is campaigning for some votes because her responses are not serkous. If she was leading our response to this war l would be terrified to say the least.
0
0
1
or armed with potatoes as Natasha Clark, the political editor on LBC, said this morning.
0
0
0
Isn’t it one of those ships whose engines broke down in hot weather? Just as well it’s not summer in the Mediterranean yet, but even so it should have gone to Greenland.
0
0
0
But she’d have had the headline for the day…. So she’d have been happy.
0
0
1
Doors hanging off? Has she never heard of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster?
0
0
1
She's increasingly detached from reality (a common feature of modern right wing politics it seems)
0
0
6
And her in command
0
0
0
The Tories have to maintain their standards for launching things that fall or drop off...
0
0
2
And no supplies to keep it there.
0
0
1
That’s what Pritt & Blu-tak’s for. Chris Philp carries it for her. Probably
0
0
0
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-general-election-armed-forces-starmer-b2571819.html
1
0
1
Notice the flag wan£ers flying the jack upside down as usual.
0
0
0
The woman's a fool.
She's just point scoring.
3
0
10
I could understand if she was actually scoring.
0
0
11
With all the success of my beloved Tottenham Hotspur...
1
0
3
Own goals don’t count.
1
0
3
If she was PM! 🤣 Well in this world of uncertainty it’s always encouraging to know there is at least one certainty. She’ll never be PM.
1
0
4
But as leader of the opposition, long may she continue.......
1
0
3
If Badenoch had been PM, it would have had an escort of flying pigs
0
0
1
@davidallengreen.bsky.social

Daft. HMS Dragon would have been in a better state pf preparedness.
0
0
0
PM Badenoch, early March:

'Send HMS Dragon to Cyprus this very day'!

- But it's not loaded with weapons, madam PM...'

'Well find something that is and send that NOW!'
0
0
17
Now, now - Kemi doesn’t make gaffes, remember, so this must be right. Clearly when she was definitely being working class by working in McDonald’s she also picked up critical dockyard and weapon maintenance skills.

Only logical explanation…
0
0
17
I couldn't resist citing this great exchange from the Star Trek movie "Generations".
0
0
5
ah, but knuckle-draggers don't bother themselves with the small details...
0
0
0
Yes, just kick the tyres and turn the key... what's the big deal?
0
0
2
Armed with extra large water pistols
0
0
0
You’re nit picking Kemi knows best all those sailors hanging around …..
0
0
0
As it was in dry dock, it's akin to trying to drive a car that's up on bricks with its wheels missing!
0
0
2
She would been a poor choice as an acting prefect in the lower 6th, for anything else requiring more horsepower, she is woefully under qualified.
0
0
3
🤣
0
0
0
and Boriss, Cameron Brown, Blair, Major and Thatccher are equally to blame for the running down of the Navy in particular..
0
0
0
She’s incompetence personified, so yes, absolutely.
1
0
12
With its French launcher system

#ImpotentGammonFury
0
0
0
To be fare the bbc are blaming @snp.org in Scotland for not sending all their Ferries.....
1
0
4
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😁🤣🙃😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
0
0
1
I presume that Kemi had the foresight to see that Iran would launch an attack on the UK despite us not being involved in the air strikes on Iran. They didn't attack us after the air strikes last year but obviously they would do this time, right?

Everybody knew that in advance, duh.
0
0
1
Military logistics is another area where she professes to be an expert, though totally irrelevant and incompetent.
0
0
3
As the PM said, it was being fitted with the exact equipment needed for the job it will be doing - defending Cyprus and other allies against drones and missiles.
But why would a Tory leader understand that? When they were in power they bought aircraft carriers but no planes to land on them.
2
0
89
We just need to go back into the single market. Boost our economy and then spend tons more on defence
0
0
1
Or sufficient ships to form a battlegroup and defend them.
1
0
28
For someone who regards herself as intellectually superior, Badenoch is remarkably stupid.
0
0
1
Not the sharpest pencil in the block. Her front bench have a collective desperate look of a deflated balloon.
1
0
1
🤣
0
0
0
If she he was prime minister, HMS Dragon would‘ve set sail immediately with a suitcase full of banknotes, so that the crew could buy ammunition from the Iranians when it got there
0
0
0
In the annals of Tory history, they’ve had a fair few nut jobs in charge… BadEnoch is trying very hard to get to the top of that unfortunate pile.
0
0
1
Badenoch
0
0
0
I visited the Mary Rose exhibit in Portsmouth this week. A reminder how a warship badly prepared for conflict will run into trouble
1
0
25
Not to disagree with the overall notion but… Mary Rose sank due to poor communication amongst crew. The cannon crews hadn’t finished resetting by the time she began to bank, which cause the flooding that sank her. At least, that’s what I remember from the Mary Rose exhibits when I last visited.
0
0
0
A Statement from CCHQ
0
0
0
no food for the crew either
0
0
5
It's comforting to know we will never have to worry about that contingency. Jeremy Corbyn has more chance of being PM than Badenoch.
0
0
1
I wish that smug, shallow, sanctimonious arsehole would STFU permanently. Clueless endlessly & aimlessly flailing, self-contradictory hypocrite.
1
0
0
Her stock position is to take the opposite standpoint of whatever Starmer says or does - 'just because'. That or calling for him to resign - on any matter you might care to name. 'Just because'.
0
0
1
That woman Bad e nough carnt except that she does not have what it takes to be anything other than a Foghorn !
Has no original ideas but follows other foghorns, Reform rhetoric !
Like Farage jumps ship when opinion isnt in their favour...
0
0
0
She's so tiresome.
0
0
0
Don’t underestimate the power of spud guns - they can REALLY smart
0
0
1
It was the government she was part of that quietly let the Naval ships fall to ruin
0
0
17
We can all spitball what we would do if we were in charge. Step 1 is to convince the electorate, which her party failed to do.
0
0
0
Pah! Would that have stopped CHURCHILL!?!
1
0
1
The tactical genius who gave us the Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns?
Probably not
0
0
0
Far be it from me to defend Badenoch but I dont think that's fair criticism. Obviously implied in what she says is that wider circumstances would be different. Whether that is feasible or not would be the issue.
1
0
0
How would they be different?
1
0
0
HMS Dragon there, legging it out of a window in Portsmouth with its trousers half on half off, because her husband came home early.
2
0
5
It would be as if the car was up above a pit at a garage with people welding the exhaust pipe on and then they get a call from PM Badenoch and drive it straight off the ramp with mechanics still hanging off it.
0
0
2
"We're going to someone else's war boys! Man & load the guns!"

...

"Shit we don't have enough men here do we?"
"No! Ser!"
"Ammo?"
"No! Sur!"

...

"Fuel?"
"No! Sah!"

...

"Sir!?"
"Hmm?"
Points to where there should be various planes & part of the ship is falling off.

...

Plop
0
0
1
Box of digestives is all they need in war?
No?
They need more?
0
0
4
And Captain Pugwash at the helm
0
0
0
And unfuelled with all crew on shore leave while urgent maintenance is being undertaken…

The silly girl should take up something more appropriate like running a Sunday morning car boot stall… in northern Greenland …
0
0
0
Capt Badenoch.
0
0
0
Can you just imagine Kemi and Nige giving it a push?🤣
1
0
0
It cpuld be hilarious - and rather messy!
0
0
1
Perhaps the Royal Navy would have had a Destroyer ready for action if the Tories had not cut Portsmouth's dry docks from 3 to just 1. Ships now have to queue for maintenance.
1
0
42
Funny how these facts slip Tory, and media, minds. (If they ever bothered to know)
0
0
13