Supporting Our Boys Within the Limits of Budgetary Reasonability

Unlike many government departments and most ministries, the National Audit Office has little choice but to concern itself with the mundane workings of the reality-based planet; which can lead to unfortunate tidings if one happens to live in a world where all is rah-rah because the planet is still bestridden by the British Empire. The Ministry for Wog-Bombing has been told to make efficiency savings of another six billion, partly because the costs of its planned upgrades are being pushed up by Britain's liberation from its largest market and the resulting fall in the value of the pound. Savings are likely to come from that old favourite, pay restraint, rather than from - to take a random example - abandoning any weapons of mass destruction that can't find the right continent.