Re: Ha!
Well they did slash the following in 2010 (AFTER posting here there and everywhere that the Tories would rebuild the military) - Decommissioned Ark Royal AFTER she was no long out of refit, sold off the Harriers (which the USMC then happily bought for a song), turned illustrious into a helicopter carrier, left us with no maritime reconnaissance aircraft (resulting in Russian subs lurking near the exit to the Gareloch alledgedly) (fair enough nimrod was a disaster but that was a clusterfuck decision)
Surprised as yet the Tories haven't just privatised the military entirely by just employing mercenaries...then again the SNPs "great" plan to balance the books post indy is simply to slash the defence budget and hope no disaster (like a pandemic...*whistles* or a larger power deciding to annex Scotland (ala Crimea) - Given the US military are the sole user of Prestwick, whats really to stop any future US President deciding to do to Scotland what they did to Guam, Puerto Rico, Hawaii etc? and just annex Scotland? What are they going to do then? Write a strongly worded newspaper article? Whine to the UN (oh wait the USA is a permanent member of the security council so that's out the window) ) unfolds that needs military mobilisation
Biting the hand that feeds IT
