Originally Posted by
Frostchamber
As regards the Autumn Statement, I've seen suggestions that there's been a certain amount of chicanery with the defence budget, including bringing forward future spend as a way of finessing a lack of any real increase in the short term. The problem there (IF that's what they've agreed) is that it's a bit like putting spending on the credit card: down the track there will need to be a reckoning, either a bigger uptick in spending or a more painful downward correction. Guess we'll know soon enough.