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Originally Posted by Kymmy
It's never to late to cancel or postpone
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As has been seen many times in the past.
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Originally Posted by 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 .
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Correct and the same problems would apply to any massively expensive long term project whether military or otherwise. It can just boil down to the lesser of two evils.