Osborne £3bn cuts - Defence £5000m

Is it £5000 mill or £500 mill?

I am split on defence cuts.
Having been around an airforce base, the figues quoted for everything were mindboggling to some of us being shown around.

But the other part of me says that we already weak enough, defence wise.

I think, what I think, that if some people got hold of the defence budgets, we could make some very easy cuts that would make massive savings.
But if cuts are made in the wrong places, that will not be good at all.

One example.On this example I could be wrong.
They seem to take the aircraft out for flimsy reason. Dare I say it, sometimes for jollies?

The cuts listed in the op may be a very good idea.

There you go soontobe one of the reasons for E & OE . You are totally right it should be £500m.

Weakening our defences should not matter if we are part of a greater force as in Europe and NATO. The fact that the Tories want to weaken our defences and our links with Europe is the worrying factor.
Before anyone says that Cameron wants us to stay in Europe, he is being very ambivalent about it, just so he can say he is on the right side.

Don't replace Trident, then the defence budget would be overflowing, even with the cuts, so that we could have decent armed forces (which I think we are good at) who could be used in peace-keeping as well as anything else. We could also keep up a proper Search and Rescue service, naval patrols and maybe even buy some aircraft to go on our new aircraft carriers, should we think that we need them. All better in so many ways than a weapon of mass destruction which we cannot use without the permission of the Americans and which would be no good against terrorism. Why should we want to wipe out Moscow anyway?

Hobby horse, moi?

Whiniwasyourage

Excellent idea, When.
We wouldn't need any cuts if we did not replace Trident.
Hope the monitors are reading this.

And they wouldn't be driving the things up and down the country, including through Glasgow, just asking for a catastrophic accident. My grandchildren are at risk from this thing, as are those of many other people!

Just seen they are talking about the return of Cruise missiles.
Those were the ones that used to be out on the roads when we lived in Hampshire.