Sure, depending what ‘less’ than £25K means, but to get to be a twenty year old that individual has been born in an NHS hospital, at a cost of about £15,000 (even without any complications), been educated through school and possibly university and that is just the more direct costs…

…if we include all the costs of the state, and why shouldn’t we, even that twenty year old has costs associated with defence, policing, transport, and all the other things that taxes are spent on on his behalf.

And one day that twenty year old will be sixty-five and expect to retire and draw a state (?) pension; they’ll probably live for another fifteen years at least, and get sick, possibly very sick, even if they are lucky enough to be in the half of the population that will not get cancer.

So it’s the ‘through life’ costs that are important.

£15,000 for a 1 day birth????

Costs which are spread across time.

Amazing how you’ve quickly gone from someone earning £7.20/hr being a net benefit to someone earning £12.50/hr being a questionable benefit LOL.

Why don’t you assess the benefit the £12.50/hr graduate attributes to business and the higher earners, and pension funds and corporation tax? If every penny such a person made was given to them, businesses wouldn’t make any profit.

frankly that universities rankings are joke. they have no relationships with quality of products made.

that wall hehe.

it wont make a difference when you look at underlying structure of economies and education system. Hispanic/Asian America weight will rise relative to Europe.
Europe will have to deal with next generation Russia military might.

how many F-35 you actually signed contract. this pound fall is too big for imported weopons.

No, people pay tuition fees to go to a foreign university for a laugh.

Unlike Soviets, it’s not built to keep people in.

Cobblers. Europe is a more important trading partner and Russian military is paid for with an every increasing share of GDP.

48 so far. Not at all, the pound fall is merely a reflection of elitists crying, it will rise as soon as they realise their tears are doing no good and have zero impact.

they even refused to sell additional F-16s to Taiwan, never mind the F-35.. as for “enemy”… face it: economical ties are so big between the two, they’ll never face each other directly. as for “supporting” somebody facing China, Japan and Korea set aside (which don’t seem to bother China that much anyway), how real that support would be remains to be seen( and nobody in his right mind hopes to have to witness it anyway, but preparing your defense means preparing for the worse case scenario, so…)

Well let’s face it, they’re right. F-16s aren’t going to help Taiwan against China, A2AD might though. The US is no friend of China though.

I would be in favour of cutting off all EU/US economic ties with China regardless of the consequences.

I doubt they are poorly paid relative to Eastern EU or Asia and I they are not even trained to built modern military products and managing government contracts.

the more Hispanic population increase the faster US will kickout EU from southern hemisphere. You can see that in Syria talks where EU is not allowed when US-Russia negotiate. storm-shadow does not have the range and warhead for deep strikes. Just look at Syria example Klibr missiles has to go through zigzag path through several countries.

yeah French. provided they want to suffer there relationship with a whole North-South American continent.

it seem you have no understanding. you cannot possibly hit cruise missile at 120km range and that range is not suitable against fighters. so practical worth of T-45 is nearly zero. your so called stealth fighter and Metero is decade down the line. let see what new missile tech and space radar develops by that time.

No we just have people coming to our universities from all over the world for a laugh.

You have a strange view of things. Last I heard they were building a wall anyway.

Relationship with the North American continent would be unaffected. They don’t like a lot of regimes in the South especially the idiot in Venezuela who’s managed to make a poor country with >300bn bbls of oil.

Sure you can. Meteor is already in service with Sweden and is just 2 years away for France and the UK. F-35B will hit UK IOC in 2018 and begin carrier ops in 2020.

er, let’s see.. china has bought a good chunk of US debt, and has tremendous trade weight with the US.. Sweden, on the other hand…

not to say the US always keep their “control” over what their “customers” do with their aircraft, Sweden much less so

So, claiming that the USA would be more reliable in case of war with China is way more than optimistic, to say the least… many other factors may come into play, and most of them are in favor of USA denying support… one exmaple:

http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/why-the-us-will-not-sell-advanced-fighters-to-taiwan/

Now, try to get in India’s shoes, in case of war with China, it would be a lot bigger than the one over Taiwan… to you really think China’s pressure on the USA would be less important so that the USA actively support India?

China is also a defacto enemy and many are saying that we’re feeding too much money China’s way. The US opposes China’s expansionist policies in the South China Sea and elsewhere. The US has also vowed to support India in any war with the Chinese over Chinese claims on Indian soil.

They’re very fussy about who they sell the F-35 too and do not want to risk it falling into the wrong hands, or being monitored too closely and Taiwan is too close to China.

Russian Military-Industrial complex is trying to achieve 100% indigenous capability all the way from raw materials. Russia produce more technical people from its education system and less lawyers/bankers/Social sciences. Just daily gas retail prices are 1/3 of UK.

You only bring paper capability. you don’t make Tomhawks. once magazine is empty. you cant sustain for second round even against the smallest conflict.

Argentina is no body in military fight. Once Middleast figure out that you are weaker than they think. the investments will flee.

it is not sufficient against Fighters as they can release antiship missile even the smaller one outside that range in saturated attack. the missile cant provide area defence. this missile system belong to small corvettes for dealing with missiles not to a big destroyer dealing with fighters.

There are shed-loads of engineers in the UK, that’s why it’s a very poorly paid field relative to engineering in Germany.

I’m sure the US would be more than happy to provide more. Then we have the UK-built Storm Shadow too.

Yeah right. Right now, Argentina is only likely squabble we have where we’d have to go it alone and even there we have a defence agreement with the French.

And if they made a SAM capable of reaching that far, then they’d use an AShM with longer range, so it’s a no-win situation. The idea for SAMs is to intercept the missile not the aircraft. For intercepting the aircraft, we’ll use stealth fighters and Meteors.

yes, well, only F-106 is a contender with gripen when it comes to transonic/supersonic/combat speed drag,
and unfortunately F-106 doesnt fly today

Evidence? Do we even know what the figures are for Gripen E?