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February 04, 2010

The end of the RAF

Sir Jock Stirrup, who is not a P.G. Wodehouse character but Air Chief Marshal, said it was only "plausible" the Royal Air Force would still exist as a separate service from the Royal Navy in ten years time.

The drastic cuts needed and the growing cooperation between forces in Afghanistan raised the controversial possibility that the air and sea service could unite.

Sir Jock made his comments at the unveiling of the Government's Green Paper on military reform, which lays the groundwork for a full-scale strategic defence review after the General Election.

More bad news: Anyone care to guess what it will cost to process - let alone house, medicate and educate - the barbarian horde at Calais?

Not to worry, let's destroy the Royal Navy instead.

The Navy is having to pay for two of the Government’s biggest military equipment procurement projects. Gordon Brown and the Conservative leader David Cameron say that they are committed to replacing Trident and to building two £4billion, 64,000-tonne aircraft carriers.

However, with a strategic defence review only months away, that will inevitably lead to cuts — particularly in the Navy and RAF — naval commanders believe that the cost implications for the Senior Service have not been fully grasped.

If you live in downtown Toronto, it would be difficult to find a soul who would not put "housing immigrants" ahead of "military procurement" in a list of spending priorities. The failure of the West is not a technological failure, not even an economic failure, it is a failure of reason.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 4, 2010 08:27 AM