Al Murray

But they're not.

They're clearly they clearly think they've not reached a threshold where that deterrent will kick in.

And the Germans, the German Hitler was not deterred from taking action in Poland by the threat of the British deterrent, you know, of a rearming Britain.

And yet here we have a thing that has worked as a deterrent, but it's deterring people from something they were never going to do.

Yeah, you're never going to invade the Channel Islands.

There is just, there's no point.

And it's this thing that Hitler would obviously be deterred by a great big coastal gun.

So he builds some, right?

Yeah, which is which is really difficult.

And the allies never quite succeed in doing it.

They never quite, you know, even after the July plot, they read it the wrong way.

They read it as imminent collapse rather than rather than they're going to dig in now.

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Well, well, you know what, Jim?

I was also struck by, you know, the engine room from Belfast is from the same era as the Supermarine Spitfire.

Right.

And people go, oh, form and function.