Reebok Trotter wrote:
Defending the country on the cheap with no thought for future consequences is what it looks like to me.
Bad Move.
Not only is our army, navy and air force terribly understaffed, its hardware is depleted too (Ok, we have the Eurofighter Typhoon but that's about it)
We don't even have an aircraft carrier at present, the old 2 and the harriers that flew from them were scrapped years before their scheduled replacement.
Our Nuclear deterrent is not really a deterrent to countries like Russia and china, we only have one trident sub on patrol at any one time carrying only 12 ICBM's (up to 6 multiple targets for each missile mind)
The people of this country seem to be for us leaving the EU, including myself, yes we would still be a member of NATO and the UN but we would be alone, we cant rely on the yanks anymore. We Will be a sitting duck, first thing to happen will be the Argies will reclaim the Falklands and Spain will reclaim Gibraltar, we will be unable to defend either.
The relationship Russia had with the 'west' is looking like it could start to break down in the near future and countries like china and north Korea (also nuclear powers) will also start Sabre rattling knowing a major nuclear power is on their side, a couple of friendly Russian scientists pay a visit to NK and hey-ho... NK have a nice little collection of ICBM's capable of hitting us or the US... and that crazy cunt will fire them.
The future is rather worrying...