Douglas Carswell's Blog

Defence procurement: Nothing to see. Move along

This blog has been boring on about the scandal that is UK defence procurement - some might say obsessively.

I've written about the way that the budget seems to be spent in the interests of the contractors, rather than the armed forces here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here.

A handful of lobbyists working for big defence contractors keep telling me I'm being "too simplistic".  Apparently there is something nuanced in spending more money than you need on equipment that is substandard and late.

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