Given the lengthy gestation period of the QE's, the constant challenges, redesigns, changes in Minister etc etc I find it hard to believe that some folks still regard the ships as vanity projects.
Its taken twelve years to get from the SDR 98 decision to here. Either case for sensibly sized carriers is sound, or it isn't. If it wasn't they would have been cancelled years ago. I don't buy the blather put up by the Govt about them being to expensive to cancel..thats just a smokescreen..if there was no case for carriers in the UK's future Orbat, Cameron would have dinged them...yet only last night at the Guildhall he was emphasising that by 2020 we'd have a strike carrier in the armoury.
The real risk he's running is that nothing much will happen before 2020 that requires unilateral action by the UK.