No-one goes into bat for defence and the Ministers are all second raters with no stroke
Yep, its all "Health - Education - Health - Education" = mention defence and you are committing political suicide.
Billions have been chucked away on a university system where thousands of academically mediocre students are pushed through and given joke degrees. Meanwhile if we suddenly decided we were going to seriously invest in defence, would there be a sufficiently large skilled workforce to make the kit?
(btw PPRuNe spell checker, its defence on this side of the pond, not defense
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