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Old 2nd Feb 2010, 16:36
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Jabba_TG12,

Whadda I say?

Well, to be totally honest, I am surprised, very surprised. Whilst hoping for three carriers is just silly, restoring old Regiments is sentimental claptrap and ignores the fact that it was the Army themselves who proposed the Regimental amalgamations as the existing Regiments could never meet their recruitment targets, and to target 50 extra JSF aircraft for the RAF before we have committed to ANY beyond the three trial a/c is also silly, what they ask for is not a million miles away from the 1997 SDR force level.
I must admit that, knowing the extreme silliness of that party, I was expecting to see such tripe as "invade France" "bomb Zimbabwe" and "restore conscription."


Good luck with your emigration. Unless you are off to the US wherever you are going will have equally bad if not worse defence funding issues.
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