Today’s Telegraph has a fine story in the Business section where it details the fiasco over the building of four new RN ships. Apart from being a disaster in project management terms, it reveals political trickery that is far worse than anything this useless government has been forced to disclose so far. The fact that the Tyneside shipyard is surrounded by constituencies of heavyweight Labour MPs (Blair, Nick Brown, Byers, Mililand and Hilary Armstrong) has nothing to do with the vast expenditure of money to keep jobs alive – they say.
To me, the worst thing about all this is that the Navy had reckoned it was going to get four ships essential to support deployment and Army operations. The vessels are especially designed to transport trucks, tanks and personnel along with the landing craft used to get them from near-shore to dry land. These are delayed. Given that the cost of all four has been expended on just two, there will be pressure to cancel the balance of the order.
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