In message , at
01:49:02 on Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Offramp remarked:
A former London Underground station, used as a World War Two command

centre, has been sold for £53m.
...
The money from the sale will be put back into the defence budget...

Isn't £50m about ten minutes of defence budget?

(And a hundred yards of HS2 perhaps).

This sale has to be "political" in some way, ie demonstrating that
assets are being disposed of, however relatively trivial the sum.

Far better had it been leased out at a peppercorn rate to a museum, who
could probably then get lottery money to refurbish and open it.
--
Roland Perry