Britain is not the major world player that it once was (should still be?) or thinks it is. CVF and JSF is a MASSIVE amount of money, surely better spent on helos and transports.
As long as we only fight wars in landlocked (or nearly landlocked) places where the opposition has neither an air force or a navy.
I refer the reader to the
Sea Jet and
Future Carrier threads.
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared for - Mark Twain.