Test firing of a Trident missile
Aircraft carriers without aircraft (unless the French help out)...
A £3bn ship being built which the government doesn't really want and may sell soon after it's finished...
Trident's renewal postponed - allowing a future (Lab/Lib?) government to re-open the question of the need for a continuous at-sea deterrence again...
Pause for a minute and imagine how the press would have greeted these proposals if Gordon Brown had announced them.
Of course, David Cameron will almost certainly blame his predecessor for the fact they have had to be made at all.
These are extraordinary political times.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2010/10/defence_imagine.html
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