The unfortunate thing about this
..that our pacifist and human-rights minded commentards are overlooking, is that BAES really ought to have a steady flow of work from the UK government that meant that UK manufacturing didn't need to grovel to scumbags like the Saudis to keep going. So whilst 1,000 highly skilled workers for the chop, the traitorous clowns at the MoD are busy pissing money up the wall on Boeing P8s, Boeing CH47s, Boeing AH64s, Lockheed Martin F35s,, Boeing C17s, Boeing RC 135s, and an assortment of foreign made drones. And then the ungrateful bastards on the other side of the Atlantic try and push another few thousand UK workers onto the dole by pushing Bombardier out of business.
Defence-fucking-procurement isn't fucking rocket science. It means understanding that you CAN get good value from foreign suppliers, you just can't TRUST the bastards. So the value (or capability advantage) really has to be pretty significant to make it worthwhile. Had the UK military been told "not a single order will be placed (you bastards) until the spec is finalised", and the MoD had considered the need for phased replacement of fighters, strike aircraft, transport, tankers, AEW, MRA, trainers, attach choppers, transport choppers, then we wouldn't be in this mess, and maybe we needn't have had to grovel to shitty regimes.
Even now, the bastards of the MoD (under pressure from the cunts in government) are sharpening knives for another defence review. This time round it looks possible that EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Navy's capital ships will be retired and flogged to some foreign power. Lord knows what the Army and RAF will be hit with. I can remember when the Conservative party was the party that anybody interested in the military and national defence would trust. Now they're a bunch of gibbering, incompetent twats, who will happily destroy this country's military, and the industrial base that supports it. Fucking traitors. Under that feckless cow Theresa May I shouldn't be surprised.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
