Seriously can the UK afford all this? national infrastructure falling to pieces daily , no money for proper health care education pensions etc etc.
i know there is a genuinely serious 'heightened risk' but we are a very small island where shortcomings in all the above areas are a far more real and present danger to the average citizen than anyhting needing more nuclear subs and being involved in any way what so ever in the Pacific . From reading Pprune, danegrous I know, it would seem our conventional military are really struggling with what they have without politicians treating them as a pool of labour for strike breaking, and assorted crises .
Surely it would have made more sense to try and pool any nukes with France seeing as any attack on one is geographically an attack on the other and it seems the PM would like a new entente cordiale.