martyh

The problem is that departments like the MOD work on long term budgets .The carriers in question where commisioned under the labour government ,now we have a new government with a different set of financial obligations .If the project has cost £1billion up to now(example) with £2billion left to spend for completion it rapidly becomes clear that scrapping the whole project will save a lot of money especially when operating costs are taken into account.Yes they have wasted £1billion but saved 2+ billion over a number of years which is all they are interested in .