This will allow our allies to operate from our operational carrier and allow us to buy the carrier version of the Joint Strike Fighter which is more capable, less expensive, has a longer range and carries more weapons.
Also
Mr Speaker, this is another area where the last Government got it badly wrong.
There’s only one thing worse than spending money you don’t have.
And that’s buying the wrong things with it – and doing so in the wrong way.
The carriers they ordered are unable to work effectively with our key defence partners, the United States or France.
Directly from;
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Prime Minister David Cameron's statement to the House of Commons on the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
I rest my case. Any advice to the contrary can only be based on self serving interests