Thankyou, WEBF, for those links. Some a little biased but it does seem that the public are at last beginning to be concerned about the low level of defence forces - even if they are not yet ready to pay more tax to improve matters.
I can see why Typhoon gets criticised but it's too late now - the time for action was when the Germans were anxious to delay and reduce numbers. Now it is the best news we are likely to get in the RAF front line for some time.
However, knocking Typhoon in the hope of increasing the likelihood that we will afford the new carriers is a bit stupid - this chancellor would be delighted to cancel both and save even more money to waste on some other new labour target seeking expenditure.
A question that is worth asking is can we defend these new carriers when we get them?