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Old 19th Nov 2015, 19:21
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Mr Oleo Strut
 
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Camforce One
The opaque nature of government expenditure, made worse by generous dollops of smoke and mirrors, make it near-impossible to determine if the £10m to be invested in this project represents good use of tax-payers money. I remember that the old Royal Yacht was slipped into the defence budget dressed up as a hospital ship, yet when it was needed in the Falklands was found not to be suitable, so I hope that Cameron's Chariot is not going to be similarly dealt with. I read that the consortium known as Airtankers are paid undisclosed sums to provide and operate the RAFs fleet of passenger/freight/tanker aircraft, all based on the Airbus A330, so I'm assuming that a few first-class seats, some dividing curtains and extra comms gear will suffice, but we'll see.
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