Here is an idea;
If US products are unsatisfactory, don’t buy them. If we are refused, cancel our order. We wouldn’t loose any workshare, as it is given to investors, which we are.
The UK still has an aerospace industry, and given some extra funds could develop new aircraft that we need, such as a Harrier II instead of the JSF. We could also buy Rafale if we so wished, and I am sure the Russians have a few Su35s spare if we get desperate.
On the nuclear issue, I say go it alone. We need a UK controlled deterrent, pure and simple.
By the way, regarding the idea that the UK would sell off the US technology from the JSF if we were given it:
If this is how you treat your best ally, who is willing to send off hundreds of her men and women to die in wars G.W.Bush wants to start on a whim, then what do you expect our reaction to be??? Its not just ungrateful, it shows that the US government has litttle regard for its international partners and is only out for what it can get and is prepared to $crew anyone to get it.
I’m not anti American by any measure, but i speak as i find, and in this case I think the US government should wake up and do the right thing for a change.
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