In this instance, the RAF?
The RAF is too run-down for the campaign against Islamic State - Telegraph
You couldn't make it up.
Smacks of Thatcher's penny pinching in the Antarctic.
And we can all remember the consequences of that.
Never mind, we'll soon have two nice new aircraft carriers.
Without any aircraft to fly off the feckers.
Competent?
Couldn't run the proverbial whelk stall.
The RAF is too run-down for the campaign against Islamic State - Telegraph
You couldn't make it up.
Smacks of Thatcher's penny pinching in the Antarctic.
And we can all remember the consequences of that.
Never mind, we'll soon have two nice new aircraft carriers.
Without any aircraft to fly off the feckers.
Competent?
Couldn't run the proverbial whelk stall.