"I acknowledge that we are broke, and of course the MoD Procurement process needs to get sorted (and unusually there has been much sense on the Dr Fox Spending thread on procurement and project management), but as someone that was having a drink with a snap shot of British society then the HMG have got it's work cut out in aligning the expectations of the British public "
much truth here
We are broke
The Great British Public is living in dreamland with regards to our military (and economic) power
No politician is seriously going to tell them the real truth - we'll have to go through a Suez Crisis or similar to get through to anyone