To make the point bluntly, Gordon Brown raped the defence budget to help support an obsolete, inefficient, uncommercial legacy industry. In doing so he irreparably damaged the defence of the nation.
The worst of it is that this leech will now keep sucking at the budget for the next 50 years in overruns, maintenance and update contracts for which they know they can be the only bidder.
Cameron should have some guts and done a Maggie Thatcher. Told them they could take their money and walk away, with the promise they'd never get another MOD contract, or they could sit down and renegotiate an affordable deal for ships the country actually needed.
fat chance with Cameron and eco-green Eton chums however, I don't think he has any more real understanding or like of defence than Gordon.