The public may well look at the RN as having plenty of money spent on it of course.
The two new Aircraft carriers are costing billions, along with all those shiny new jets to operate off them. And the replacement for Trident has just been authorised, with the money ring-fenced from outside of the defence budget. And those Type 45's are not too cheap either....(even if most of them are a bit broken).
To the uninitiated, that looks like a lot of shiny new kit, at times when the RAF are reducing their front-line squadrons, and the Army are reducing their manpower.....?