Since its pretty clear that every politician is as mad as the other, it probrably wont make much difference whoever holds the reins.
I find it funny how people think they're losing their power and rights when to be honest we never really had much power or rights to start with. Yeah you can still vote in whoever you like at the moment, but we've all seen how quickly politicians will U-turn on their principles given the slightest sniff off power. Its almost as if people think British politicians are somehow better or more trustworthy than their European counterparts, in truth they're probrably just as corrupt or dangerous, they are humans afterall.
Lets hope someone like Kobayashi, Schumacher or Button really throws a spanner in the works, perhaps bunching all the would be champion's up behind them.
Nuclear bombers were becoming obsolete as they were entering service. ICBMs, particularly submarine launched ones, were the way forward, and the USA and Russia had plenty of them, while our Black Arrow/Blue streak missile programmes were canned after minor sucesses, and we ended up having to buy Polaris and then Trident missiles off the US and basing US missiles here. We poured money into our nice bombers and their shorter range weapons while everyone else moved on. Just one of the many mistakes that has lead to us doing the bidding of other nations.
Ex cold war bombers are lovely aircraft but they were pretty irrelevant as weapons even in their own time.
How do you know they wiped the floor? They were never used for their intended role. Often a lot of this military hardware is just a symbol of national pride while at the same time being massive white elephants. Same with Battleships, pretty much useless from any tactical point of view but each nation had to have more, bigger and badder ones. V-bombers are lovely aircraft but they wouldn't win wars.
There are different levels of effort, like for example the lower levels where all you can be bothered to do with your life is be a prick on the internet, and higher levels where you go out and do something worthwhile.
So? If it dosen't mean i'm any closer to getting gunned down by an invading army then I don't care. The size of your army is not everything, especially if you only ever use it to fight guerillas thousands of miles from the island the army is supposed to be defending.
Two nations signing a military pact and agreeing to share resources does not automatically mean we are one step closer to an authoritarian super state, except perhaps in the minds of glory hunting conspiracy theorists. Incase you hadn't noticed, we've been signing ententes of all sorts with France and others for over a hundred years. We fought the Great War alongside them along with the commonwealth and the USA, which either nation couldn't do by themselves. We've been reliant on the military power of other nations since about erm... 1914?
I think you're getting more meaning out of this than there really is, but isnt that how modern conspiracy theories work anyway? Find a single coincidence or event and claim its the smoking gun.