The RN is short of destroyers, frigates, patrol vessels and submarines - that is a fact
they are also very short of men
the carriers have soaked up billions in cash and hundreds of men to man them
they will require a diversion of ships currently patrolling elsewhere to defend them
They look great but for British interests they are an overblown luxury that badly skews every other naval option
PS "not accountable in the same way as an MP or Peer."
- when were THEY ever accountable???