Phelgan
January 18, 2007 at 10:35 am

UK defence spending

Probably should go on the too little too late pile, but…

I know one of these was posted last week, but I thought it was worth adding this one as well.

This link is to a petition on the No.10 website entitled “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ensure Britain has well-funded, well-provisioned, well-trained armed forces including a properly operational blue water fleet.”

I thought it was worth adding because (a) it is not just focussed on the Navy and (b) does not call for the end of operations in Iraq unlike the previously posted link.

For completeness the other petition is here

Should only be completed by British citizens and residents.

Cheers,

Phil

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By: Super Nimrod - 23rd January 2007 at 07:22

Yesterdays telegraph on this specific issue. I have included it here as it briefly includes reference to Naval stuff and the carriers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/22/ndefence22.xml

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By: Phelgan - 22nd January 2007 at 14:17

Its not just Iraq- if you can think of a place where this is or has been a recent war you can probably be sure that Tony Blairs ego has sent British forces there.:(

To send the forces in is one thing – I may not agree with some of the deployments, but that’s life in a democracy.
To send them under equipped is another – for which they should be held accountable
To strip everything else down to (inadequately) pay for something – is inexcusable.

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By: sealordlawrence - 19th January 2007 at 20:29

How much (%) of the total defence spending of the UK is eaten up by Iraq now?

Its not just Iraq- if you can think of a place where this is or has been a recent war you can probably be sure that Tony Blairs ego has sent British forces there.:(

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By: Arabella-Cox - 19th January 2007 at 18:01

How much (%) of the total defence spending of the UK is eaten up by Iraq now?

Enough to make the spending problems inside the MoD critical.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 19th January 2007 at 17:05

How much (%) of the total defence spending of the UK is eaten up by Iraq now?