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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I will point out that she was built by 5 different BRITISH shipyards,will be maintained by Portsmouth Dockyard for the next 50 years and as a consequence has and will be providing much needed jobs in the area where I live and at the 5 previously mentioned shipyards. I rather think that us taxpayers will be getting our money's worth.
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While I agree with the sentiment, I'm not so sure that the country, as a whole, is getting anything like its 'money's worth'. Keeping people gainfully employed must surely be secondary to national defence, yes?
An aircraft carrier that has no aircraft is useless. That is the bottom line.
This isn't a party-political thing, more of a MOD 'no-clue' thing and is an issue that will not be addressed while the underlying reasons for the abysmal planning and execution of this build are buried beneath partisan politics.
We are all paying for this travesty, no matter what our political affiliation may be.