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 ⚓💸Another day, another patriotic asset quietly flogged off at a price that wouldn’t cover a London studio flat. The deal to sell HMS Bulwark to Brazil isn’t just embarrassing—it’s a neon-lit warning sign flashing managed decline. Critics have rightly branded it “a spectacular failure,” and once you look at the numbers, it’s hard to disagree.

Because here’s the kicker: HMS Bulwark and her sister ship HMS Albion were sold together for around £20 million total.

Not each.

Combined.

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Once central to Britain’s amphibious warfare capability, Bulwark has spent more time mothballed than mobilised—kept in limbo by years of indecision, underfunding, and defence policy that lurches from review to review without ever landing anywhere useful.

After sinking hundreds of millions of pounds into building, upgrading, and maintaining these ships over their lifetimes, Britain has now waved them goodbye for roughly the price of a mid-sized footballer or a couple of London townhouses. Brazil didn’t just get a bargain—they got proof that the UK no longer knows what to do with the tools of its own defence.

Selling two major warships for £20 million after letting them decay in dock is not fiscal responsibility. It’s institutional negligence dressed up as pragmatism. This is what happens when you can’t crew ships, can’t maintain them, and can’t bring yourself to admit that your strategic ambitions no longer match your budget—or your political courage. ⚓📉

Ministers talk tough about global threats, freedom of navigation, and “Global Britain.” Meanwhile, the Royal Navy is quietly holding a clearance sale out back. You cannot posture as a serious military power while offloading core assets like unwanted furniture because they’ve become too inconvenient to keep.

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Here’s the uncomfortable question: how many more assets are being quietly written down, mothballed, or flogged off for pennies because no one wants to admit the scale of the problem?

Is this prudence—or surrender by spreadsheet?

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