Gestures at Germany in May 2022 when they started to ramp up industry and allocating billions of funds for Ukraine to shop there because supplies from army stocks simply aren't sustainable.

So what's the actual problem? Did the UK do nothing in 1½ years but run on what they had lying around? Or are they just trying to prepare the narrative of how they can't afford anything anymore for the next round of conservative™ destruction and decay in the name of saving money?

As this is from the Torygraph I assume the latter...