Comments by "Simon Hool" (@simonhool3073) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. SeriousTimes The Royal Family pay tax.
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  2. Changing under Trump too.
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  3. gbjanuary There is no report from a credible source that proves the Royal Family don’t provide profit. Below I have links from left and right wing sources proving so. https://www.insider.com/where-does-the-royal-family-get-money-2017-1 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/royal-wedding-family-how-much-uk-economy-benefits-cost-meghan-markle-expense-a8345436.html https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4950897/queen-money-economy-monarchy-2017/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1145043/royal-finances-how-much-money-royal-family-uk-economy-tourism-meghan-markle https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/british-royal-family-earnings-net-worth https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/they-cost-us-a-mint-but-bring-in-much-more/
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  4. Will be Cold War thanks to Russia and China engaging with the taliban. Not a world war, a Cold War.
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  5. Alexey Zakhvatov The carrier doesn't run on XP. It was rumoured that it does but it doesn't. While many on board systems used by contractors for various tasks use Windows XP, Windows 7 and various other operating systems, none of these are directly involved in running the vessel and will not be present when the ship enters operation service according to the Ministry of Defence. The new carriers are the first ships to be built with a BAE Systems designed operating system called Shared Infrastructure, which will be rolled out across the rest of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet over the next 10 years. Shared Infrastructure is a state-of-the-art system that will revolutionise the way ships operate by using virtual technologies to host and integrate the sensors, weapons and management systems that complex warships require. Replacing multiple large consoles dedicated to specific tasks with a single hardware solution, reduces the amount of spares required to be carried onboard and will significantly decrease through-life costs. "The MoD can confirm that Windows XP will not be used by any onboard system when the ship becomes operational, this also applies to HMS Prince of Wales.”
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  6. Dave James Bullshit, absolute bollocks.
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  7. RobertDeville Explain why the carrier is crewed and had its crew two years before she sailed?
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  8. Gavin Sharp QE shouldn’t be nuclear powered. We wouldn’t have been able to afford one carrier let alone two if nuclear powered. Her range is enough to get her from Portsmouth to Sydney with fuel left so not a problem especially when you have the worlds best replenishment service, the RFA. Being nuclear powered would prevent us from visiting over 40% of the worlds ports which happen to be mostly commonwealth too. It’s more expensive to maintain plus the mid life refuelling would take both carriers out of action for years with nothing else. Ask the French how their nuclear aircraft carrier is getting along. Cats and traps are good if you have a bottomless budget, you have to maintain the cats and traps as well as repair them over time and repair the small bits of damage they do to aircraft as well. The ski jump works and is effective so what's the problem? The F35B also uses vertical landing and take off.
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  9. volkswin Explain
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  10. ToonandBBfan Wildcat, not lynx but not that much of the wildcat, more Merlin.
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  11. Aussie Drifter QE shouldn’t be nuclear powered. We wouldn’t have been able to afford one carrier let alone two if nuclear powered. Her range is enough to get her from Portsmouth to Sydney with fuel left so not a problem especially when you have the worlds best replenishment service, the RFA. Being nuclear powered would prevent us from visiting over 40% of the worlds ports which happen to be mostly commonwealth too. It’s more expensive to maintain plus the mid life refuelling would take both carriers out of action for years with nothing else. Ask the French how their nuclear aircraft carrier is getting along. The engines in QE are certainly more than “A few over sized truck engines.” It will not take around 30,000 crew to man QE or POW either.
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  12. some yellow sri lankan The carrier isn’t named after the Queen, google the name and you’ll see it isn’t. Also, being British has no bearing on wether you like the name or not.
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  13. sparkss4 The carrier doesn't run on XP. It was rumoured that it does but it doesn't. While many on board systems used by contractors for various tasks use Windows XP, Windows 7 and various other operating systems, none of these are directly involved in running the vessel and will not be present when the ship enters operation service according to the Ministry of Defence. The new carriers are the first ships to be built with a BAE Systems designed operating system called Shared Infrastructure, which will be rolled out across the rest of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet over the next 10 years. Shared Infrastructure is a state-of-the-art system that will revolutionise the way ships operate by using virtual technologies to host and integrate the sensors, weapons and management systems that complex warships require. Replacing multiple large consoles dedicated to specific tasks with a single hardware solution, reduces the amount of spares required to be carried onboard and will significantly decrease through-life costs. "The MoD can confirm that Windows XP will not be used by any onboard system when the ship becomes operational, this also applies to HMS Prince of Wales.”
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  14. Cody Smith “Not likely to get on track before 2025.” Explain why in less than four weeks the first ever F35B will land on QE. The carrier is a super carrier as she weighs 70,000 tons, engine propulsion has no bearing on the super carrier status. It would have not been better to build 16 helicopter carriers as we don’t have the crew for that many or the space for that many. QE shouldn’t be nuclear powered. We wouldn’t have been able to afford one carrier let alone two if nuclear powered. Her range is enough to get her from Portsmouth to Sydney with fuel left so not a problem especially when you have the worlds best replenishment service, the RFA. Being nuclear powered would prevent us from visiting over 40% of the worlds ports which happen to be mostly commonwealth too. It’s more expensive to maintain plus the mid life refuelling would take both carriers out of action for years with nothing else. Ask the French how their nuclear aircraft carrier is getting along.
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  15. m scott “No jets for a few years”, although in less than four weeks the first ever F35B to land on a carrier will be on QE.
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  16. 4TheRecord The carrier doesn't run on XP. It was rumoured that it does but it doesn't. While many on board systems used by contractors for various tasks use Windows XP, Windows 7 and various other operating systems, none of these are directly involved in running the vessel and will not be present when the ship enters operation service according to the Ministry of Defence. The new carriers are the first ships to be built with a BAE Systems designed operating system called Shared Infrastructure, which will be rolled out across the rest of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet over the next 10 years. Shared Infrastructure is a state-of-the-art system that will revolutionise the way ships operate by using virtual technologies to host and integrate the sensors, weapons and management systems that complex warships require. Replacing multiple large consoles dedicated to specific tasks with a single hardware solution, reduces the amount of spares required to be carried onboard and will significantly decrease through-life costs. "The MoD can confirm that Windows XP will not be used by any onboard system when the ship becomes operational, this also applies to HMS Prince of Wales.”
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  17. costelloj70 Sure
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  18. moelio20 QE shouldn’t be nuclear powered. We wouldn’t have been able to afford one carrier let alone two if nuclear powered. Her range is enough to get her from Portsmouth to Sydney with fuel left so not a problem especially when you have the worlds best replenishment service, the RFA. Being nuclear powered would prevent us from visiting over 40% of the worlds ports which happen to be mostly commonwealth too. It’s more expensive to maintain plus the mid life refuelling would take both carriers out of action for years with nothing else. Ask the French how their nuclear aircraft carrier is getting along.
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  19. Edith Dodds You have no idea do you. If QE is to ever break down, your English ability will break first which is already has done. sigh
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  20. M suriname Nope. QE shouldn’t be nuclear powered. We wouldn’t have been able to afford one carrier let alone two if nuclear powered. Her range is enough to get her from Portsmouth to Sydney with fuel left so not a problem especially when you have the worlds best replenishment service, the RFA. Being nuclear powered would prevent us from visiting over 40% of the worlds ports which happen to be mostly commonwealth too. It’s more expensive to maintain plus the mid life refuelling would take both carriers out of action for years with nothing else. Ask the French how their nuclear aircraft carrier is getting along.
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  21. Ernesto Gastelum The RN have the RFA, the most well know fleet replenishment service in the world. They provide fuel and supplies to warships like the US and every other Navy across the world. The US do port visits all the time, as your comment implies they don’t. All Navies have to do port visits for a number of reasons varying from: Refuelling when not possible at sea, humanitarian work, diplomatic trips, port trips for the crew, maintenance in a foreign port and for a vessel to dock in their base which may be in another country.
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  22. r casper Classic response for someone with no facts or evidence.
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  23. r casper There is no credible evidence to suggest that 5G has a link to the virus. A common error made by people was believing that smoking was good you on the 60s when there were health warnings in the 50s and 60s saying that smoking was bad for you, the adverts weren’t produced on a mass scale. Do you have any links or evidence or do you just try to insult people the moment they have a debate?
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  24. P K You’ll just adapt, no they won’t. They will move away to other countries or declare income through capital gain.
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  25. Ishmael Stanisauskis Teachers have been teaching from home the whole time.
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  26. Ishmael Stanisauskis Vast majority have been.
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  27. Ishmael Stanisauskis The vast majority of schools in the UK, regardless of state or private, have been providing education remotely. Maybe in your area they aren’t but as a nation the vast majority are. It is also wrong to say that this is a free holiday when teachers and support staff have been laid off or furloughed as a result of the virus while teaching remotely.
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  28. Bryan C What war hoaxes and bullying?
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  29. Asabul Miah Social distancing relaxed in schools.
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  30. Sauron Merciful At no point did I say that the Royal Family doesn’t have access to billions. The Queen doesn’t have as much control as you think, she cannot just take more money when she wants regardless if she technically owns Bank of England and the inland revenue. The Royal family’s pay is decided through the returns of the Royal estate. If the estate brings in more money than usual they receive a higher cut. It is also worth bearing in mind that the Royal Family create a profit for the economy as they earn more money then cost us.
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  31. gbjanuary The money generated from tax, less than a pound per average tax payer a year, is used to service and maintain buildings/sites which make a profit every year. This pays for all expenses with money left over that is fed into the economy.
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  32. Ryan Evans The Royal Family have been around for centuries, democracy was founded in 1918 in the UK. You don’t elect a royal family, have you ever looked at history?
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  33. Zyklon X , Very opposite, she embraces the royal family.
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  34. Wizdumb37 He isn’t though.
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  35. gandi S No credible evidence.
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  36. Isometric Aquariums Talking about yourself huh...
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  37. Dan Smith Any credible evidence behind that? No doctors or consultants saying so.
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  38. Jhutan Debbarma Brexit shop?
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  39. Ships make up a tiny proportion of global warming effects especially in comparison to other methods of transport, no problems solved here unfortunately.
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  40. Andrew Colby You know if your healthy or it, it’s not hard.
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  41. thanos Not really, the chances of you catching the virus is low and then the chances of you dying are extremely low.
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  42. 83% of students don’t pay back their full loan so subsidising won’t make a difference
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  43. Kit Carr Unusual to highlight the use of alliteration when the rest of your comment is grammatically wrong.
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  44. Kit Carr Bit sad really to have a trap. Nothing better to do.
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  45. So the picture of the C17 double it’s capacity with Afghans fleeing doesn’t portray anything?
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  46.  @narrativequestion  The picture was widely reported on, not in the video.
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  47. He isn’t a puppet at all, any evidence?
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  48. B Because they are senior schools that only start at year 9. No state or private senior schools are going back this term, only private junior or prep schools are.
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  49. SPIDERman9051 Best Defence secretary we have had for years.
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  50. SPIDERman9051 Getting more money for the defence budget and talking down rumours of scrapping amphibious ships. Better than the rest.
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