Originally Posted by
Ninthace
£5bn might go some way to bringing accommodation and housing back up to a minimum acceptable standard.
Ninthace.
Not a chance! Of that £5bn there is a total of £2.97bn allocated to the AUKUS industrial strategy and £1.93bn on replacing stockpiles transferred to Ukraine. So that leaves a fraction for everything else. As just pointed out in the House of Commons Defence questions (by a Tory!) that £5bn increase actually amounts to a cut in the money available to the armed forces over the next 2 years...
Wallace said last October that he needed between 8 and 11 Bn just to stand still, he has got about half of that, so no standing still, more going backwards and the Army keeps getting smaller and more hollowed out, the RAF retire aircraft without replacement and the RN retire Frigates....
Have any of these clowns heard of a place called Ukraine and a guy called Putin?