Originally Posted by
skua
So we have sent one P-8 to the Eastern Med, which represents more than 10% of the fleet. Meanwhile the Faroes Gap, UK waters, the Baltic and the Black Seas still need monitoring. Another example that the UK is now an asset-light military. (Did we hear much about defence at the two major party conferences in the last month?)
Actually from Labour (surprisingly) we did. John Healey (Shadow defence Sec) ripped into the way the armed forces have been "hollowed out and underfunded" and promised that they would spend more of our GDP on defence. We wait to see what actually happens, but it did sound like they know things are bad and need sorting. Then again, so does everything else...
Anyway, back to Israel and Hamas.