MontyB
All-Blacks Supporter
Umm seriously, woke?
eems like a perfectly appropriate name change to me, hell it is not like they changed it to HMS Tutti Fruiti.
As for not wanting to offend France, I am not sure the French would have been too concerned but given the state of the world currently it may not be a great idea to overtly try and piss off your allies.
I mean hey the German navy played the imperial march from Star wars in the Thames am I the only one who found it shocking, who knew the Germans had a sense of humour.
eems like a perfectly appropriate name change to me, hell it is not like they changed it to HMS Tutti Fruiti.
As for not wanting to offend France, I am not sure the French would have been too concerned but given the state of the world currently it may not be a great idea to overtly try and piss off your allies.
Grant Shapps calls Navy submarine name change 'woke nonsense'
HMS Agincourt has been renamed Achilles amid reports the defence ministry did not want to offend France.
www.bbc.com
I mean hey the German navy played the imperial march from Star wars in the Thames am I the only one who found it shocking, who knew the Germans had a sense of humour.