The carriers strike me as the Defence equvalent to HS2.
- Somebody, for all the wrong reasons, decides its a good idea to build two massive Carriers
- Defence budget gets cut but the Carriers have gone too far to cancel
- The carriers are built but there's nothing for them to do, no-on to man them and we cant afford to use them
- The decision to buy the carriers has far reaching implications, meaning we've bought the least capable and most expensive version of the F35
- The carriers are expensive to maintain and unreliable, spening more time in port than at sea
- The second carrier will only make a bad situation worse
- Meanwhile what's left of the RN stumbles on, starved of manpower and funds
You literally couldnt think of a worse, more catastrophic state of affairs, for what once was a Navy that ruled the waves.