Yet again on this site.....
"How can you define a £3.7billion increase in funding in real terms as a cut? How can you define £2.8billion in efficiency savings reinvested in the Defence budget as a cut?" How many times do you want telling that There Is Not A £3.7 billion increase. Read the paper on defence - the rise was £2.8 billion in savings plus a bit more to add up to £3.7billion. How were these savings made? Sacking Buffoon would have saved a wodge of money and not inconvenienced the forces at all. However how have the "efficiency savings" affected the squaddie in Basra?
By the way I am not an old fashioned Tory coming out of the woodwork - just someone who is fed up with Bliar and his incompetent croneys and apologists.