Red Line Entry
Re the Harrier, I
do think there was another agenda at play but it was not yours
As for the money argument, we will have to disagree. Money, more of it or less, has always been used as the prime factor by politicians when implementing their vision. This time around, along with spending announcements in other areas like Higher Education made since the Election, the SDSR was as much about flagging up issues with the greatest
PR impact to let the Public be in no doubt as to the depths of "our financial crisis", as it was defence.
Since SDSR was published, money has been found to be available from our heavily indebted economy to assist with the bale out of other EU Countries. This fits in with a political vision of what the EU is or should become so this should be no surprise nor should the move to greater European co-operation on defence matters at the expense of national capability.