:ok:Like the words zoom. This countries getting too expensive to live in.
We need to make the most of every taxpayers pound not 30 pence of it.

None of the money for defence is "new". It's a re-announcement of the cash requested by MoD from the Treasury contingency funds as part of the operational estimates for hot, sandy places and the Balkans. The £900m for equipment is largely for UORs.

Main Building will have to stump up a 50% share of whatever UORs receive final approval two years or so down the line. Usual Neue Arbeit spin and bo**ocks. All equipment bought reverts to MoD's core budget for depreciation and other beancounter niff-naff reasons after an agreed period, further eating into the dwindling kitty.