RP, apart from saying oh dear nine times, what have you added to the debate. Care to answer the questions?
1. UK MPA in the Gulf the last couple of years?
2. No UK MPA presence.
3. No UK MPA basing, if we had MPA.
The basing I am talking about is the basing necessary to patrol the Gulf of Aden and down the African littoral or up in to the Red Sea; I know the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf is covered.
As we have not had an MPA and not needed an MPA do you see the Treasury coughing up extra cash or the joint staffs ceding parts of their budgets for a capability that we have, perforce, done without for a number of years - a whole decade to reach FOC perhaps.