Call me a cynic but whats the betting that the delivery date keeps getting put back, it goes over budget and we have to keep it in dock for 11 months a year because we don't have enough matelots to crew it.

Couldn't we just have gone on ebay bought an old carrier and done it up?

That way we could save a few quid and spend it wisely on something like a giant upturned wok in Greenwich, more speed cameras or maybe even some more managers in the NHS.


Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"