Correct Safrane. However, successive central and local government departments have always found money for grandiose schemes like the Millenium Dome, Olympics, marble town halls, or simply gerrymandering, whilst telling us that there's no money for essentials whether they be the defence of the realm or quality care for the elderly in their old age.
Having spent all my working life in the defence world both in uniform and in civvies I have witnessed numerous defence cuts, but never have I seen the UK left so exposed. Forget playing world policemen, we can't, but with the immediate loss of so much capability I suspect that just from the domestic standpoint many of the decision makers must have their fiingers very firmly crossed behind their backs.
Perhaps it's time to pull up the drawbridge and reassess our true priorities.
PH
Correct Safrane. However, successive central and local government departments have always found money for grandiose schemes like the Millenium Dome, Olympics, marble town halls, or simply gerrymandering, whilst telling us that there's no money for essentials whether they be the defence of the realm or quality care for the elderly in their old age.
Having spent all my working life in the defence world both in uniform and in civvies I have witnessed numerous defence cuts, but never have I seen the UK left so exposed. Forget playing world policemen, we can't, but with the immediate loss of so much capability I suspect that just from the domestic standpoint many of the decision makers must have their fiingers very firmly crossed behind their backs.
Perhaps it's time to pull up the drawbridge and reassess our true priorities.
PH
The shear lunacy of the images today of half built Nimrods being gas axed!!!!! Progress???
Just a few weeks ago I was privilaged enough to see one of the last of the Harriers fliying out to form up for the last flight....
I'm not a millitary man but I alarmed that all three of these high profile trophy axings are just for political gain.
On a lesser note a few years back (as a protest to Maggies restrictions to local government budgets being capped) my local council closed the local leisure pool and blaimed central gov'twhen they tried to reopen it a year later the side had collaped in as it should never have been emptied!!! we now don't have a pool in our town...