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Old 05-04-2012, 13:13   #550
Tim Deegan
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising

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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
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 .
Agreed...unless the next goverment decides that we need carriers again.
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