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How Britain Is Wasting Its Defence Budget
By Richard Norton-Taylor | Januray 6, 2025
While soldiers shiver in crumbling barracks, the top brass have squandered huge sums of public money buying equipment we don't need or that doesn't work.
The chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, has written to every member of the British cabinet telling them to tackle waste and cut their budgets by 5 per cent.
He does not need to look far. The chief culprits – and what should be his prime target – inhabit a large office block just across the road in Whitehall.
There stands the Ministry of Defence (MoD), bastion of unaccountable, corrupting power, and a lobby well-oiled by the incestuous relationship between senior military figures and leading arms companies.
For decades the MoD has wasted billions of pounds of taxpayers' money while always asking for more.
What should have been treated as a huge scandal has been indulged by the most effective lobby that has seduced ministers, mandarins, and arms companies alike.
Now is the opportunity to grasp the nettle. It would be an even greater scandal if the government does not seize it as part of what Keir Starmer has called a "complete rewiring" of the state.
RELATEDThe MoD has repeatedly ignored persistent and damning criticism, notably from parliament's watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO), confidently assuming it will be allowed to continue pouring large quantities of money into military projects that are wholly inappropriate, or unusable, even as Britain's civil infrastructure is collapsing.
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Here are a few of those projects:
• Blair's Labour government spent more than £6 billion on two of the largest ships built for the Royal Navy – the aircraft carriers, Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, described to me by Lord Richards, a former chief of defence staff as "behemoths…unaffordable vulnerable metal cans". They have been plagued by serious mechanical problems and the navy has not sufficient personnel to crew them.
• It is still unclear how many F-35 fighter jets the MoD will buy for the aircraft carriers or the RAF as part of an aircraft project originally estimated to cost more than £13bn over 30 years. Declassified has reported how Britain's role making components for the Lockheed Martin aircraft has further tied the country to the US and implicated the country in the bombing of Gaza.
Please go to Declassified UK to continue reading.
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