Why is the industry ours to support?
I resent the notion that unless the MOD buys overpriced, half finished and normally late arriving products from the South West of England, the economy will collapse and the world will stop turning.
Either they can offer a high quality, value for money product, delivered on time and with good aftersales service, or they can't. If they can't, the MOD propping them up is only delaying the inevitable.