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    Ed - now remind me, what government paid-off the old Ark Royal early and cancelled her replacements?

    You will also have to remember the Navy pretending that the three mini-carriers were really 'through deck cruisers' to stop them from being axed.

    All by Labour.

    It was the lack of any credable conventional aircraft carrier that made the Argies think they could get away with the Falklands.

    We have to remember as well just who used and abused the armed forces for the last 13 years while underfunding them. They did not even properly fund their own strategic defence review they had in 1997 and ordered equipment without any thought to affordability within the budget.

    Me - defence is the only expenditure that I would increase and would regard it as the no1 spending priority at all times. Sadly Labour's financial incompetence has left some really difficult decisions and politically DC cannot leave the forces unscathed.

    We will just have to see exactly what comes out of the review. Right now all we are getting is speculation, negotiation and positioning so everything said must be taken with a pinch of salt.

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