How come we can afford RAF Tornados in Iraq but not nurses in the UK?

I wonder too just how many more sanctions will be meted out to benefit claimants in the hope that they, the tory led coalition, can save some expenditure to help pay for this new bombing campaign against ISiL

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UK today!)

Up to 5,000 NHS nurses have been lost since 2010 because Tory chancellor George Osborne reckons the UK can’t afford them:

25,000 NHS jobs go in three years

We can, however, apparently afford to fly countless RAF Tornado missions in Iraq, which cost the taxpayer at least £35,000 per hour:

How Much Will Airstrikes Cost Taxpayer?

A case of selective austerity perhaps?

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