Let's try to see where this floating overdraft arrangement fits into our future plans as a maritime nation:
It cost double her estimated build costs to complete.
It needs re-commissioned personel - drafted back into the navy - to safely man it.
It's running costs have almost certainly doubled since inception.
She has no FW.
When the FW arrive @ £140mil a pop, they will cost an inordinate amount of money to maintain and fly.
The Navy is still being targeted by the treasury.
There are only another 18 (EIGHTEEN) major combatent warships in the entire fleet
6 of them (destroyers), each costing £1000,000,000.....don't work in warm water
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The sister ship [HMS PoW] is (a) not due to be commissioned until 2020 and (b) will never go to sea at the same time as Lizzie. We can't afford it.
The Labour government is a government in waiting
This (carrier) programme was invented for a threat which (a) no longer exists and (b) the UK can no longer afford to operate simultaneously.
These ships are the dying cries of a once proud nation trying to fight above its weight. God help Great Britain.
