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Originally Posted by glyn
The significance of the 1997 date is that is when New Labour became the government. IF the Tories win the next election they are going to have to spend serious amounts of money to rectify the many shortages of equipment and manpower. Should the Liberal Democrats win we can forget it altogether. We could be heading to Banana Republic status, and we haven't even got bananas.
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Glynn - do you genuinely think the Tories will reverse this? No chance. They will stick to Labour budgets for at least the first 2-3 years. Besides, look at the figures closely. De-comms only truly escalate from after 2001 - i.e not planned for. I don't believe the Tory's would have acted differently - there are few votes in defense these days.
Besides, I seem to be the only UK poster that remembers the Nott Report....