I believe it is time for a lot of people to look forward not backwards, we are a small country in a large world also we no longer have a empire to plunder for loot. So we must as we do now ally ourselves to other similar based countries for mutual defence, similar to global companies. That is why we are in NATO and the ECC, to give each other mutual help, this has to be better for everyone than going it alone and building a massive armoury that beggars everyone and puts the nation at risk of war, as everyone else in the world looks at you with suspicion and the main target to take out to increase their power base ( I do not want to see the names on war memorials increased, just to build some fancy warships).
But if people must complain, how about the latest decision to get rid of the mine hunters and where are the convoy escort vessels, the type 45 and 23 cannot keep up with and escort a fast convoy on the open sea. The RFA Reliant left the Falklands same time as the destroyers and frigates and arrived Plymouth over a week ahead of them, she could only muster 21 knots, but the type 42's etc could no maintain her speed on the ocean.