Tuc, the more you reveal of how my taxes are knowingly misspent in the corridors of power, the more I am convinced that they would be better spent by the armed forces directly dealing with industry, though subject of course to stringent audit. I feel that the numbers we buy in, in these days of shrunken forces with shrunken budgets, mean that any savings due to programme management by specialist staffs is more than consumed by the costs of those staffs, let alone the costs of their repeated blunders. Do you have a solution, or are you content with the growing civilianisation in our defence budget? This may be going off thread, but what is the point of Nige getting their Airships to finally drink the water on offer, only to have it pixxed out again with little effect (literally with the K's!), and at great cost (if you catch my tortured and mixed metaphor!). It is scandalous that this urgent and life saving programme is being carried out in such an indolent fashion, and underlines my firm belief that public enterprise under this government is uniformly dysfunctional, with the honourable exception of the Armed Forces themselves. Very disheartening indeed!