Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"While discussing maritime patrol who was it who signed off on the Nimrod AWACS experiment or even building Challenger tanks ? "
people who read the newspaper editorials on the importance of "buying British" and "saving British jobs"
it would be a brave politician who said "they're bloody useless - we're buying American/French/Brazilian"
That's the choice any country makes - to support a domestic defence industry with all the benefits to GDP and jobs, or to buy off the shelf from overseas.