Bill
"I would cancel the carriers. Easily done since they aint been ordered yet. Cancel a replacement for Trident, same as above.
Then you have some real money to play with."
Hmmm, but no way of defending your forces overseas and no way of effectively detering a nuclear armed enemy.
This sort of silly internal bunfight just plays into gordons hands. one service points and shouts that carriers arn't needed, the other points and shouts thsat FRES is to expensive. He who shouts the loudest wins, Gordon picks on the loser and the country ends up where it was in 1982.
Whats actually needed is a little more money for the MoD to enable it to do its job properly- all the service brass need to stand together against political bullying.