There are credible reports coming out today, that the number of defence cuts in the British Armed forces will actually be 25% higher than has previously been admitted ... a national newspaper has seen a memo suggesting that instead of the announced 12,500 cut in size, the figure will actually be 16,500.
And in a further cruel twist of the knife, many of these additional cuts will fall on those soldiers who have been wounded in action in Afghanistan or Iraq and been able to remain in the forces ..... it seems that what the German Army couldn't do in two World Wars, the Conservative Party is doing with a few bits of paper.
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And in a further cruel twist of the knife, many of these additional cuts will fall on those soldiers who have been wounded in action in Afghanistan or Iraq and been able to remain in the forces ..... it seems that what the German Army couldn't do in two World Wars, the Conservative Party is doing with a few bits of paper.
What I don't understand is why the cuts must fall on active service personnel, and not amongst the thousands of civil servants
who are apparently required to run our tiny armed forces. It surely is
madness when the number of civil servants in the ministry of defence,
outnumber the total of soldiers, sailors and airmen in the British Armed
Forces.
What sort of armed forces are planned for at the end of this latest "Defence Review", and what it will be able to actually do, is beyond me. I guess I'll have to look at the Dutch Armed forces, because we appear to be heading to something of a similar usefulness .... and with the news that we are pulling all our troops from Germany (after over 60 years), which was something that has always been considered as not an economy in previous decades, its the end of Britain as a military first rate power.
There must be an increasingly large number of Tory Party supporters and people who voted for them, who now regret voting for them, and who certainly will think long and hard before doing so again.
There must be an increasingly large number of Tory Party supporters and people who voted for them, who now regret voting for them, and who certainly will think long and hard before doing so again.
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