‘Loose lips sink ships’ was the famous Second World War phrase which accurately warned of the dangers of allowing careless words to be spoken within earshot of potential spies or enemies. It’s a phrase that one might have thought Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne would have been familiar with; after all, it was he who managed to procure a lazy 50 billion hard-earned Aussie tax dollars for the twin purposes of protecting our naval vessels at some distant point in the future whilst shoring up his own South Australian seat in the present.
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