Articles on compromised carriers

These are old articles but give an interesting overview on the poor decision making for the sake of British jobs when it comes to defence.  Yes we really are building aircraft carriers where we will never be able to afford a full complement of planes!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/06/defence_committee_carrier_badness/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/10/f35_u_turn_idiocy/

David Cameron was stating that we have the fifth largest defence budget in the world.  It does us no good when we get such terrible value for money!  Companies like BAe have the gun to the head of the government over defence jobs and extract the maximum amount of money for it.  We often end up with over priced equipment that is years late.