If you remember the internet meme "Smash My Stuff", you will love what the coalition government is doing in the UK.
Smash Our Stuff was an internet phenomenon that featured a group of Canadian men purchasing a popular product (normally at launch) and destroying it in front of other people who waited for ages to buy it. The site started as "Smash My iPod", they became so popular that they went on to buy and smash an XBOX 360, a PS3 and a Wii.
The reactions of the crowd, who were waiting patiently in line, often overnight, was often one of shock mixed, in some cases, with anger fuelled by jealousy. Here they smash a PS3.
Apple sued them because they did not like to see their beloved items get smashed.
Well British taxpayers waited for 10 years to get nine Nimrod MRA4 reconnaissance aircraft. They cost a total of £4billion.
Three of the planes are 90% finished. One is complete and ready to take off.
Now that they are pretty much ready, the British government is smashing them up. Literally. This will cost taxpayers an additional £200 million and the Contractors get to claim all the scrap metal.
So Smash My Stuff - you have been trolled. Fifty hour waits, compared to a wait of 10 years, £400 launch products v £450 million planes that will never "launch".
(Well it is the tax payers have been trolled as well by the Military contractors but no one seems to care about that becaues it is "military". Oh well as long as BAE get their money)