Think comment is uncalled for as the union officialfor for all we know might have been a welder in his earlier existance, and he's not online to defend himself. As said we all hope a very minor problem, as yet BAE and MoD have issued no rebuttal/explanation/consequences.tomuk wrote: ↑23 May 2022, 18:59 Can everybody calm down it is complete nonsense based on a bit of gossip from a union official who wouldn't know a deck plate if he tripped over it. Of course it would be nice, and cheaper, to build the T26 in a covered hall but hundreds of ships are built all over the world outside.
In the report Ian Waddell the union official talks a lot of sense especially on the FSS and the idiots at Treasury on their stop go stop go policy killing the shipbuilding industry, would note T26 programme looks to have slipped yet another year.
Defence Committee
Oral evidence: National Shipbuilding Strategy
Refresh, HC 181
Tuesday 17 May 2022
https://committees.parliament.uk/oralev ... 10235/pdf/