[DesScorp]

"...The RAF’s presence in Scotland is being drawn down and with the scrapping of the Nimrod fleet, the U.K. has no airborne maritime patrol capability at all.

WHAT????

It's impossible to keep a first-class military when all the money is going to welfare, pensions, the NHS, etc. This is the path the British people themselves chose. This is why the British Empire died. This is why I call them Not So Great Britain now.

[Vanders9]

Nationalism killed the British Empire. As well as paying for two World Wars. Welfare is what happened after.