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  No better - they (Labour) were appalling with making unfunded defence commitments, ordering R&D and then failing to fund the purchases. Sending troops into war without the equipment they needed.
  
  They were far worse and had no excuses. We had what they boasted as a long period of growth during which they spent £billions on every conceivable politically correct project going. The ONLY department of government not to benefit from Brown's open cheques was Defence, the most important department of all.
  
  At least the coalition are doing what they are against a background of trying to resolve the economy and the need to make massive spending cuts.
  
  As I have said, I think Defence is the only department that should not be cut, indeed I would have increased defence spending and would cut every other budget to do so. Sadly the government decided that Defence had to carry a share of cuts.
  
  Bad as that is, it is nothing like as bad as Labour behaved.

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