HMS Invincible sold to Turkish ship recyclers!!!

BBC BULLSHIT!

I know I shouldn't pay any attention to the MSM but I helped build HMS Invincible so I keep a watching brief on her fate. It was clear from the day of her withdrawal from service that it was onlya matter of time before she met the cutters torch. Neither Milliband, Clegg or Cameroid want to have anything big lying around that reminds people that Britain was once a sovereign nation capable of defending itself on the world stage.

We have to accept their fate for us, which is to become EU Region Number 9 or some such meaningless tag.

Well she is now off to a scrapyard. Turkish this time. We have one in this country in Hartlepool run by ABLEUK but it isn't clear whether this company bid for her.

The Turks bid £2 million or so and a Chinese business man bid £5 million but the Chinese man is alleged to have not filled in his forms correctly and so instead of being sensible and working with the Chinese businessman to get his paperwork in order to drag in an extra £2 million the universally corrupt and foetid shithole that is the MOD civil service sold it to the Turks instead.

Cameorid likes the Turks. He wants them to be part of the EU seemingly to increase the numbers of Muslims in the Federation. This sale to a Turkish yard reeks of politics. Economics goes out of the window when politics is in play.

To see this confirmed here is the BBC take on the story followed by Shanghai Daily's. It saddens me to see that to get anywhere near the truth in EU Region Number 9 we have to get our news from China!

British Bullshit Corporation:

The aircraft carrier HMS Invincible has been sold to a Turkish scrapyard which specialises in recycling ships.

Invincible is the sixth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. The carrier, which saw action in the Falklands war, was sold through an Internet site.

Leyal Ship Recycling, which is based near Izmir, was chosen ahead of a bid by a UK-based Chinese businessman.

Lam Kin-bong - who owns restaurants in the West Midlands - had offered £5m and wanted to turn the former warship into an international school in China.

But a Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "After 25 years of service HMS Invincible was decommissioned nearly six years ago and having reached the end of her distinguished career, it is right that we secure a good financial return for the taxpayer.

"The bid from Leyal Ship Recycling does this and also ensures she is disposed of in an environmentally friendly way." Leyal has been involved in the scrapping of several Royal Navy ships - the destroyers Cardiff, Newcastle and Glasgow and auxiliary ship RFA Oakleaf.

HMS Invincible is expected to be towed from Portsmouth by the end of March and is expected to arrive in Turkey four weeks later. It will take eight months to dismantle.

Shanghai Daily:

Britain has rejected a 5 million pound (US$8 million) bid for a junked aircraft carrier from a UK-based Chinese businessman.

The offer was more than double the expected price but Lam Kin-bong, from south China's Guangdong Province, said yesterday he was told he had "failed to provide all the necessary information."

The light aircraft carrier HMS Invincible was decommissioned in 2005 and stripped of engines and weapons.

The 17,000-ton hull was sold by the Disposal Services Agency, an online auction platform under the UK Ministry of Defence.

A Turkish ship recycling factory won the bid at a price Lin said was far lower than his. The auction website has yet to publish the final price, but Chinese media quoted estimates of around 2 million pounds.

"I feel quite disappointed because I planned to turn the warship into a floating international school off the coast of Guangdong," Lam, 48, told the Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po newspaper.

He said he had organized a professional team, including a British lawyer, accountant and consultant to prepare all the necessary material for the bid, the Zhuhai Evening News in Lam's hometown said.

Lam, who moved to London nearly 20 years ago and runs a restaurant chain in Birmingham, said he would continue bidding for other decommissioned warships on the online platform.

The Wen Wei Po report said there were suspicions that Lam's bid failed for "political reasons."

The British authorities might suspect that the Chinese government or military authority was behind Lam's bid, the newspaper said. Lam had said previously that his bid had the support of the Chinese embassy in the UK. But Lam said his intention was purely commercial and had nothing to do with the military.

"We wanted to convert it into an international school to help foster communication and cultural ties between China and Britain," he told the newspaper. He said that if permission to tow the vessel to China had been withheld, he would dock it in Liverpool.

Military analysts said it was unlikely that the warship could go back into service.

The hull would have no military use, Song Xiaojun, a defense analyst in Beijing, told the Zhuhai newspaper.

The carrier had served for 28 years in naval campaigns including conflicts in the Falklands, Iraq and the Balkans. It could carry 22 warplanes and nearly 1,100 sailors.

Source: Source: BBC. 11 February 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12396523

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