I think this is one of the few things as late that makes me feel genuinely proud to be British, because, beneath the hostility that feels so rife across our country recently, we’ve so many good people making things like this happen. Bravo.

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tomjen3 an hour ago | parent [-]

It certainly involved a lot of skill and expense, but how many more lives could be saved if the same money had been spent on improved traffic safety or NHS in general?

	▲	argsnd an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Probably not that many. You underestimate how expensive either of those things are. We have obligations to provide services like this to the people living in our overseas territories, and you won’t find many people who’ll oppose that.
	▲	benj111 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		True, but this is military expenditure. So would you rather they spend this on an exercise or on actually saving people?
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