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Originally Posted by PeterPanPan
That actually seems pretty cheap to me. The total UK defence budget for 2012 is £47 billion*, that's £47,000,000,000 to avoid any confusion. £63,000,000 is just over 1/10th of 1% of the UK's total defence budget. Doesn't seem like bad value to me and does rather suggest it is not exclusively about the oil.
* http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/br...012UKbt_11bc5n |
are you even serious?!
let's do some rough maths: 47bln for 62mln inhabitants means that yearly Defence cost per citizen in the United Kingdom is some £750.
61mln for 3000 people is a staggering £20,000 per head!