Viewed through the mist from close by my home on the Isle of Wight, this was the day in May 2013 when HMS Ark Royal was dragged by tugs out of Portsmouth and hauled away to be scrapped in Turkey. She still had at least a decade of good service in her but once reduced to razor blades, of no use at all to the defence of Britain.
Yesterday former United States defence secretary Robert Gates made clear his concerns at the decimation of Britain's defence capability which is leaving us vulnerable and will make us incapable of operating as a partner in world policing operations. He is of course right. Mr Cameron meanwhile dismissed what had been said and claimed all is hunky-dory. It just goes to show how handicapped we are by our own self-deluding politicians.
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