Agree, a para taken from some notes I tapped out last night: "The communications are already troubling. Defence Minister Luke Pollard welcomed her into Devonport today like she was a returning combat veteran. With two ocean-going tugs strapped on amidships and one through the bow because her engines don’t work, this is not a smart tweet. Her decline will have been known about for a long time. Where is the aggressive plan to replace her? Instead, the same tweet gave us a loose reference to how the Defence Investment Plan says she will be replaced. What does that even mean? How about, for once, recognising a gapped requirement in advance, being aggressive in seeking a replacement and then honest in the communications. Who knows, voters might even like that. If we can’t get this right for an ice breaker, what hope is there for genuinely complex systems and ships."