Unless somebody does something new, funding for Defence is going to get even worse. According to James Kirkup, Political Correspondent of the Torygraph, the treasury is trying to claw back billions of pounds from MoD to pay for UOR's (Urgent Operational Requirements). UOR's have included buying armoured vehicles, enhanced body armour and fire supression for C130's.
An informed lobby group such as UKNDA could surely do something to keep this in the public domain. If not, it looks like the past failures to properly equip the services for the realities of battlefield conditions will be paid for with the lives of servicemen in any future battles. I.e. it will progressively get even worse.