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Petition update, 28 October 2008

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A strategic defence review of Royal Navy tasks and requirements considered twelve destroyers the minimum that could do the work. The government have ordered HALF that amount and are reluctant to order any more. On the lowest proportion of defence spending since the early 1930s, we have ordered six escorts in the last ten years. We should have been ordering at least one escort destroyer/frigate every nine months to sustain the fleet. Instead it has been amputated by an order every twenty months.

The senior service is being rushed into a retirement home when we are still an island nation. Most goods (95%) imported or exported travel by sea. Much of defence spending is too low to sustain a defence of the realm, but this item in particular goes to the root of Britain's defence strategy and cannot be corrected quickly in an emergency.

These petitioned for ships leave plenty of tax money for increasing health and education spending. This government are letting dogma get in the way of our safety. We want ten, consider more then!

Current signatories

Richard I CArling, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• John Salmons
• Ian Clay
• gary j harrison
• Adam Plank
• Dick King
• S King
• Melvin Wagstaff
• P Sandeman (savetheroyalnavy.org)
• frank
• James
• David Bryan
• peter toone
• John David Hale
• Frank Boggis
• dave abbott
• ken shuttlewood
• dp
• Sally Beety
• Derek Bousfield
• Stuart Anderson
• Alan F Dawson
• Conrad Waters
• Brian Murphy
• David Payne
• Russell Laverick
• Rob Millington
• Ian Pearson
• Brendan Garvey
• Michael Thompson
• robert b
• Jambo
• p elliott
• N King
• Leslie Ferris
• Matthew Gray
• john harvey
• gloria &keith patten
• Iain Turner
• Andrew Hart
• MARK HOROBIN
• Alan
• David Axford
• Douglas Laybourne British Patriot
• Patrick W.Morris
• Allan W. Dean
• Patrick O'Clee
• DAVID LEWIS
• Alan Dixon
• Laurence Brazier
• Keith Butler
• Bill Hollis
• Peter Hartell
• Bryan Pace
• Sidney J Reeves
• frank farmer
• Peter Evans
• John ARMITAGE
• Michael Rickards
• Mark Heathfield
• David Lowe
• Richard Evans
• Rob Haywood
• terry baker
• Kevin Gilbert
• robert neil bradbury
• Martin James
• Laurence Toley
• Jon Chartier
• Jonathon Staples
• Bryan McCavour
• Elizabeth Anderson
• J R Harrison
• Iain Cunningham
• T. Trevelyan
• Gordon Vincent
• Andrew Siviter
• Sean Stone
• Lydia Baker
• Jonathan J M Bartholomew
• Christopher Wilmet
• Mark Taylor
• Ian Annand
• LIONEL G ROBERTS BENNETTO
• Timothy Crump
• David Molloy
• Richard Fleming
• Luke Gibbons
• S.P Beaird esq
• Graham Pattison
• Matthew Frost
• BUKHTIAR AHMED
• Kirk Husbands
• Steve Carter
• Andy Nicholls ( Serving RN )
• michael morgan
• Tom Vigor
• Thomas Bishop
• David Philip Knight
• Steve Wright
• Dominic Waite
• Frederick Clark
• Rowan Weston
• Tim Stanton
• Lee Martin
• Benedict Hardy
• Owen Richards
• Salvador Lloret-Farina
• Alex Cholot
• Chris' Buet
• richard Ghost
• Charlie Picking
• Paul Jan Mehmet
• Paul Lynch
• Aidan Smith
• Luke Gorick
• Alex White
• Simon Thompson
• Jordan Britchford
• chris whitfield
• nick armbrister
• Kevin Hallifax (Ex - Royal Navy)
• Mark Paul Smallpage
• Michael Sanchez
• Brian Ellison
• Michael Ney
• James Dryhurst
• trish
• DAVID STURGESS
• Lucas Ainsworth
• adele sen
• Blythe Richards
• Dave Hemsley
• Stephen James Rawlinson
• Kev Caley ex-RN
• Matt Paget
• RAYMOND F. BRUSOKAS
• michael saul
• P Edmondson
• Chris West
• Elizabeth A Radcliffe
• Jon Biddle
• Barrie Lambert
• Simon Hunter
• Alistair Gunn
• Alexander James Warrington
• G Lenain
• Nick Bewley
• Simon Addison
• Nicholas Birmingham
• Lindsay Bremner
• Euan Stewart
• Brian Wainwright
• Charles Clifford
• Robin Calvert
• Matthew Price
• Callan
• andy skinner
• pauline Orr
• Alan Doig
• John Cheshire
• Nicholas Lunn
• James Constant
• William Lancashire
• Albert Leach
• David Machin
• Graham Richardson
• Robin Armour
• Grant Fettis
• Peter Grist
• Diane Howells
• Charles Davis
• David letton
• ben
• Gregory.L.Payne
• Chris West
• Mark Lawden
• Iain Andrews
• Russ HALL
• stephen jackson
• COLIN ROY PETER JACKSON
• Ken Holmes
• rosemary smith
• Alan Jary
• Geoffrey Harris
• chris seager ex RN
• Lawrence Hendry
• Richard Davis
• Katharine Witham
• Lee Henderson
• Matthew Thornton
• Warren Lockhart
• Melvyn D Baker
• Ross White-Chinnery
• ben treasure
• David McGuire
• David Tyler
• e.w.neal
• Alexander Addison
• Mark David Taylor
• k andrews
• James Thorns
• Simon Eccles
• George Graham
• Gary Naylor
• Michael Smith
• Tim Wells
• ALEC HENDRY
• david king
• stephen rolfe
• Sean McCarthy
• rob smith
• Keith Birtle
• Edward Clarke
• Robert Lees