Five RAF bases to close in £1bn cuts

[redeye321]

I don't think the RAF, Navy or the Army be cut back. People should look at who is causing all these problems in the first place. The MOD! They spent £250 million on 8 Chinocks that can't fly in cloudy weather!

[Friday]

I wouldn't believe anything Michael Smith says. He just writes these stories to get you to vote conservative. Only a week ago the chancellor said himself:

"It has been put to me that we freeze the defence budget and cut it in real terms.

At a time when our armed forces are now serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo as well as in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, this course would be irresponsible, contrary to the national interest and I reject it. In the last Spending Review we allocated the largest spending increase in 20 years to defence and I can tell the House that I propose real terms increases in defence spending."