The loser here is the taxpayer and the forces - and the RAF / Navy in particular!
Are you joking?
The RAF/Navy will get new toys when the economy recovers. The taxpayer is always getting screwed, that wont change.The losers here are the many thousands of people, engineers, RAF personnel, local businesses etc that depended on the MRA4 and all the Nimrod derivatives over the years for their living.
Half these dicks in the present government are multi millionaires and wouldn't know a days work if it hit them in the face. They don't have a clue about making ends meet and living on a budget.
Maybe they should get there arses down to Woodford and tell the workforce face to face they have made a shoddy product like some in this thread claim, explain why they increased foreign aid when cutting everything else.
This country's a bloody joke