It is hard to avoid the thought that so ignoble is the aircraft carrier decision-taking mess, so revealing of the inappropriate inputs into security planning and equipping the country to defend its interests, that the government is laying it out on purpose to generate an outcry big enough to sanction the renegotiation of those contracts signed in the dead days of the Brown government.
Many arguments were made during their signing that the choices being cast in legal concrete were inappropriate and driven by job-provision for Labour clients, particularly in Scotland, rather than the UK's defence requirements. Perhaps the government could explain in more detail what has been committed to and how the costs of cancellation have been arrived at. For the costs of having a pair of Potemkin aircraft carriers are much more than just the money.
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I won't be at all surprised if the carriers are built, equipped with French or German aircraft, and sail under the crown-of-thorns flag.
It is quite possible that Cameron has been told to see them completed for this very purpose.
There seems no end to our humiliation.
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