Russia is attacking Britain in a very unusual way:

[Are_grits_groceries]

@pourmecoffee

WTF?

[mr_hat]

1. RAF should strafe it as target practice

long before it reaches shore.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Dammit, what kind of rat crew let's its ship 'bob'?

You go to all that trouble, carefully training the rats on how to crew an ocean-going vessel, get them their seaman's certificates, tell them which are the vital crew rats that they can't eat yet, set them off - and they let the ship 'bob'? How unprofessional. Next thing you know, it'll start sinking, and they'll desert it.

I told Putin he ought to have used pigeons. You can rely on a pigeon.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. If the rats are cannibals, then there shouldn't be a problem.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Presumably the fear is they will eat the British rats

That's the normal reaction to anything foreign in the tabloid press here - "bloody eastern European rats, come over here, eating our rats - those rats should be eaten by hard-working families of upstanding British rats which have waited their proper turn..."

[Behind the Aegis]

5. LOL!

[malaise]

7. Peter Minshall that great Carnival Costume designer

delivered a theme called Rats back in the 90s -
Aristocrats
Technocrats
Bureaucrats
Gutter Rats
etc

It was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this thread.
Minshall was the designer for the Opening Ceremony of the Barcelona Olympics back in 92.

[Nye Bevan]

6. I know who can put a stop to this.

If the British Government is willing to supply a few Scooby Snacks as a reward.

[pa28]

8. Give the ship to me and I'll unleash my cat army (AKA Cleo and Monkey).

Problem solved.