High Spirits,
Let's agree to disagree!
As an aside, I saw a letter in (I think) the Daily Torygraph t'other day which costed out the retention of Ark Royal - something like £115M to 2015. The writer then commented that Eric Pickles could find £250M to restore weekly bin collections.
Ipso facto, our armed forces can be left bare but at least the rubbish gets collected.
O-D