short term pain (to us on the shop floor) for long term gain (for the nation)?
I agree... if you can be sure you have one team behind you and around you, unfortunately in this country the team captain is a politician and therefore national interest is anethema to him/her (of whichever party).
Harold Wilson said a week is a long time in politics, how far ahead will a Defence Review
really matter to the winners of the next general election?
And please will people recognise that F35 will be majority manned by the light blue; the Navy are an add on.