Originally Posted by
Mil-26Man
Really don't want to bring up the B word, but with £200 billion spent on Brexit and counting what did folks expect other than cuts, cuts and more cuts? That's before you even begin to factor in Covid.
There really will be no jam tomorrow for a very long time, if at all.
Well, why bring it up then? You know it's completely irrelevant 😴 If anything you'd expect Brexit ("Global Britain") to lead to an uptick in Defence spending, which actually it did.
These latest Defence cuts are very little to do with our ability to afford Defence spending today and much more about the systemic and fundamental misalignment between future ambition and reality. Basically, too much of the budget gets sucked up by too few very very expensive procurements, that means we can't actually afford to operate what we've just spent billions investing in!!
The difference now is there's almost nothing left in the short term budget that can be cut to fund the dreams of tomorrow, which means you end up left with ever smaller numbers of very expensive to own and operate types such as A400 and F35B.