FODPlod,
You don't seem to be putting forward any coherent argument; you are simply rubbishing my point, without any evidence, that our carriers will both end up costing around the same amount as the last of the Nimitz class. Which is true.
And how is asking legitimate questions that are going to have to be answered sooner or later, generating nonsense? Surely it is ignorance of the answers to long term questions such as this, which led us to such an erratic and unproductive procurement programme.
It doesn't take a financial audit to recognise that these aircraft carriers are going to be extremely poor value for money; if it was a private company that was procuring it, it would have been cancelled years ago.