To: JasonC
Sounds depressingly familiar to the situation just before the Falklands war. Then it was a Conservative government about to make large cuts to the Navy and reduce it to a coastal defence force.
To: protest1
But the navy was literally 3 times as large then. After these cuts, the British navy will be 1/6th the size it was in 1980. Meanwhile, British GDP per capita has risen 4 fold over the same period. They are vastly better off, the government takes 43% of the national income, and delivers bumpkiss for it. Just handouts, that is all they can even think of paying for anymore.
130 posted on
09/02/2007 4:06:43 PM PDT by
JasonC
To: protest1
Sounds depressingly familiar to the situation just before the Falklands war. Then it was a Conservative government about to make large cuts to the Navy and reduce it to a coastal defence force.
Aregentina's timing was stupid
140 posted on
09/02/2007 4:25:25 PM PDT by
uncbob
(m first)
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