Al Murray

They're desperately short of steel.

They're desperately short of manpower.

Let's build a really, really great big effing gun that burns up those resources.

It's interesting, though, isn't it?

Because, for instance, at Sydney, on the headland, there's the Manly Head gun battery, the North Head Sanctuary in Manly, right, where there's a nine...

9.2-inch guns.

And I've been to that emplacement, and you would know your way round it, you know, and it's got some camouflage on it.

It's concrete.

It's got tracks.

It's got the telephone station and all that, right?

But those are 9.2-inch guns, right?

So they're not the biggest guns money can buy, right?

And also, you're defending a harvester.

No, no, no.

But also you're defending a harbour that is of strategic importance, right?

Obviously, if ships have got to off Manly Head and the entrance to Sydney Harbour, things have probably gone quite pear-shaped, right?

Because that is a long way for anyone to get.

But you can see why you'd build that battery there.

Also for political consumption, public consumption.

Yes, we are defending you, right?