BRITISH TROOPS WILL DIE TO PAY FOR TRIDENT.

Defence chiefs have been left stunned and angry by the Treasury's refusal to finance the £20 billion, (and BTW that's only the initial cost it could be up to £70 billion), cost of replacing Britain's ageing nuclear deterrent.
 George Osborne, the Chancellor, has ruled that the entire cost of the new system must be found from within the day-to-day defence budget.  The ruling has caused disarray within the Ministry of Defence where officials are already struggling to find cost savings of 20 per cent – or £7 billion – from next year's budget.  

Britain should accept that it is no longer a warrior race.  We should not be involved in the invasion of some one else's land, in this day and age.  Can anyone explain to me what the fuck we want with an 'independent' nuclear deterrent?  Who the fuck are we going to bomb?  Germany, Italy, Russia, Israel, Iran?  We can't fire the fucking thing unless America agrees, so it's not independent.  We can only get the spare parts from America and there is some doubt that their parts, won't fit our parts.  We'll be in metric and they'll still be feet and inches.  For this we're going to cut back the budget for aircraft and carriers, which make a difference in the field according to forces' spokesmen.  What I fear is that we will lose more of our young people, to pay for this dinosaur.  Cut the budget back to the minimum required to DEFEND BRITAIN FROM INVASION and pay off LABOUR'S DEBT with the money saved.