Fight The Real Enemy
Pruners
It's not CVF or Type 45. It's not Typhoon or MRA4. It's not FRES or Watchkeeper.
At a time when there is clearly not enough money to go around, and there will very soon be even less, there is one insane, monumental waste of resources that towers over all else.
Trident.
Eliminate the pointless rent-a-nuke independent-I-don’t-think-so-deterrent and you will free up enough money and resources to fix everything.
It’s not the carriers, it’s not Typhoon, it’s not even JSF…it’s the nukes.
The single greatest thing the UK the could do to restore its place in the world would be to give it all up tomorrow.
If that has you all freaking out then fine – put some warheads on a Storm Shadow, or buy into ASMP-A. But dump Trident. Dump the missiles. Dump the boats. Dump the bases. Dump the W76s with the M&S labels stuck on to them. Dump it all.
Do it now.
VC