Sunday, June 17, 2012

Useless, expensive and dangerous


The £1bn contract for reactors for the next generation of the UK's nuclear-armed submarines to be announced by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond will create 300 jobs.  I make that a mere £3,333,333 per job.   Why is defence spending always justified by the jobs it creates ?   Also, could someone explain exactly what Trident is defending us against ?

1 comment:

teekblog said...

RED LINE - sorry, no way should we renew a useless and as you rightly point out costly so-called deterrent