hval wrote:-
"I am actually pro carrier. I want one; no, in fact I want three carriers, plus all the necessary assets to protect them. That does not mean one Type 45 and one submarine per carrier. I want a real navy, with lots of ships, boats, aircraft and all the necessary funding that goes with it. I really do. Our political masters don't."
I suspect our political masters can't see how the hell they are going to afford all this hardware and get re-elected. In every opinion poll, when asked to rate the importance of expenditure Defence gets about 5% of the vote behind schools, education, NHS, pensions, roads etc