Where does all the money go
This government collects even more tax than the last one.... a trend which seems to continue regardless of the party in charge.
Where does it go? Well not on the Royal Navy, we have nothing there any more (just sent the last aircraft carrier to scrap because we scrapped all its aircraft), not to the airforce because they have no planes, nor the army (it can't fill a football stadium so its not an army).
What money the government does collect (and it is a huge amount) goes almost entirely to:
Germany for police cars, fire engines, ambulances.
France for Indian produced software and army lorries
China for uniforms for the armed forces
America for late, under developed and faulty aircraft
Sweden for the police cars the Germans don't supply
Spain for army tanks
Belgium for army guns
South Africa for bullets...
Anywhere in the world for free cash handouts to spend elsewhere
The list goes on.
What is apparent is that none of this saves us any money. What happens is that the company uses OUR tax money to employ people in THEIR country (as indeed I would if the boot was on the other foot). These people pay tax in the country that employs them (so we miss out on that revenue). We as tax payers have to pay those who could and should produce the goods to sit watching day time television. Then we have to watch as the people we still manage to employ making cars, tanks, plane bits etc. have to watch as their offshore competition say 'you don't want to buy from them, even the UK government wont, they must be total crap... buy from us instead' and see the remaining orders dry up and disappear.
And frankly, if Jaguar tried to sell a police car to say Ethiopia and the Ethiopians looked at our roads and saw BMW, Volvo etc police cars would they buy Jaguar... of course not