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A retired RAF Officer asked this
morning, with just a little irony, where Grant Shapps sat compared to a notorious
predecessor as Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson. Shapps is often described as having, a “safe
pair of hands,” or, translated, unlikely to embarrass No 10. After all, his appointment has received a
resounding endorsement from Boris Johnson.
Mushroom humbly sees the logic: so
long as he does not cause trouble over money, he will be howling success in
cabinet and will be able to continue managing the scandalous decline of our
military capability as well as the next (yes) man. But, as I have said before: Rishi and those
helping him lead the Conservative Party to oblivion may think that they can sweep defence and security under the carpet for
now but they will regret it at the next election. Nobody has a clear
idea of how the war in Ukraine will ever end and what state the belligerent
parties and their helpers will be in afterwards. The possibility of
Trump returning to Commander in Chief and insisting that Europeans actually pay
for their defence against a potentially triumphant Putin could concentrate
minds, even in Germany, let alone Whitehall.
