Britain and France to share aircraft carriers  

Seem like protectionist defence procurement isn’t quite giving us sovereign capability the way we were promised, eh? Had we ordered much of the new carriers to be built overseas, we could have had them at a fraction of the £5 billion cost. But the asinine logic of the Defence Industrial Strategy means that we instead had to have them built in the UK.   Why? It gives us sovereign capability, we keep being told.  Balls. Instead we end up with British-built carriers that may not have airplanes to put on them - and which we have to share with France.    So much for the Defence Industrial Strategy giving us sovereign capability.  "May we take le carrier to le Falkland islands, s'il vous plait, Monsieur?  We give you fish quotas or concede new EU directive against the City in return,...