There was also a man called Dennis Healey who decided we should scrap things like TSR2 and P1154 and buy everthing from the Americans because it would be cheaper, even though it virtually destroyed the UK aircraft industry. And despite all the American kit being cancelled or it didn't work.
And then there was a man called John Nott who decided in 1981 that the Royal Navy should get rid of all its surface ships and have a fleet of Nuclear Submarines instead... and we could afford all these subs because we were going to sell the ships for razor blades or to the Australians.
And then in 1982 all those ships went to the Falklands and won a war.
The motto of the tale is that politicians are all F$kcwits who couldn't organise a orgy in a brothel.