@ manccowboy
"Actually it was the Conservatives who ordered the MRA4 (Nimrod2000) in the first place."
I was referring to the chronic govt overspend on everything, not the nimrod specifically...
Had they kept a bit saved up - not created 100,000's of useless jobs and enlarged "the state" to the obese money swallowing state it is, and not sold most of our gold at its lowest price for the past 1000 years, then we might not be in such an awful state!