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The F-35B costs (currently- it's growing by the day) roughly a third of a billion dollars each in acquisition cost alone. That's over a quarter billion pounds.
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
The F-35B costs (currently- it's growing by the day) roughly a third of a billion dollars each in acquisition cost alone.
That's over a quarter billion pounds.
To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds.
Do you think MPs will hand-wring about this plane being flushed down the drain as much as they do about fiscal prudence in early education expenses?
I wonder if UK teachers spend their personal funds on school supplies like teachers in the US do.
- mhh__ 5y agoI don't think your spending figures are right. An up to date F-35 does not cost anywhere near 330 million.
- jessriedel 5y ago> To put that in perspective: the pre-primary and primary education budget for the entire country, in 2016, was 800 million pounds. That doesn't sound right. This page says the UK spent 31 billion on pre-primary and primary education in 2020 https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk-public-sector-expenditure-education/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/298910/united-kingdom-uk... (If that has a paywall, try googling for the info, which is how I was able to view the page.) Please help me understand the discrepancy or edit your comment.
- tcskeptic 5y agoIts not right -- there are about 4.6M primary school publicly funded students in the UK. Source : https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/815634/National_pupil_projections__future_trends_in_pupil_numbers_July_2019_update.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... The UK did not spend 173 pounds per student for a year of education -- the 30B cost leads to per student spending of about $6500, which is starting to approach a reasonable figure.