posted on Dec, 16 2008 @ 12:14 PM
According to the Daily Finance section of todays Daily Mail, on page 59, we in the UK are hell bent on loosing our last armoured vehicle
manufacturer.
BAe has gone on record by saying that they may have to slash jobs and close factories as a result of defence spending cuts. BAe said, 'we are having
to review our Land Systems business, which is the country's only tank manufacturer, after last week's decision by the government to cancel a £16B
order for armoured vehicles'.
In my opinion, this has very little to do with the recession which the world finds itself in, at the present.
It is more about Gordon Browne's Labour Party and the continuing loathing certain MPs have towards the MOD and all it stands for, not least of which
there is a £2B a year shortfall in direct funding despite what Gordon Browne and his puppy John Hutton say to the contrary!
England invented the tank for God's sake, in 1916 and they were used for the first time in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai.
Alvis manufactured the Scorpion, Scimitar and Sabre CVR (T) series of light tanks until Labour cancelled forcing BAe to step in and acquire the
company.
If we lose the ability to design and build our own tanks, who will we turn to provide the Army with tanks? America or even Russia? Far fetchyed? I
think not!
But why boost another country's job front and manufacturing businesses?
Why not keep them here in the UK?
[edit on 16-12-2008 by fritz]