Originally Posted by
Roland Pulfrew
Unfortunately T Bliar won a landslide and then reneged on the deal, preferring to spend the money on almost anything else other than Defence. Remember "a poond spent on Defence is a poond wasted" (with apologies to my Scottish friends).
Doesn't really stand much scutiny as a claim. Here's a chart of UK defence spending from 1980. Tories in power from 79-97, Blair from 97-07, Brown from 07-10, Camoron from 2010, then May. Note where the dips are...
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