Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"Defence, safe in the hands of the Tories eh?"
Never has been I'm afraid - all the way back to '56
The real problem is the the politicians insist on the UK playing a Great Power role but never put up the cash for it - I'd love to hear someone say
"we're going to spend 4% on the military so there goes the Pension Triple Lock folks!"
Or probably more usefully say - "The NHS is a broken model. No other country on earth copies it. It consumes something like 15% of government spending and is always hungry for more. That funding model is fundamentally flawed and we intend to move towards a european style model where central funding is only a small part of the mix".