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Army Cutbacks Will bite | Blairwatch

Army Cutbacks Will bite

Britain's expensive disaster in Iraq is beginning to have a drastic effect on our armed forces and their readiness for any future conflict. We've talked before about how the number of mid ranking officers departing is causing a long term problem and that recruitment rates remain low, indeed the infantry alone is 3,000 soldiers short and a recent TV recruitment campaign has flopped

However dramatic cutbacks are being planned. How dramatic?

Parachute training is to be halted for four years

This is tantamount to

This is tantamount to criminally negligence when you stop the training of troops whose activities are dangerous. I've had a good rant about this myself.

There's just no words for

There's just no words for this. Apparently we can afford Trident, but not critical training for our most skilled soldiers who have the unenviable job of fighting Blair's dirty little wars.

Sorry. I understand now. Silly me:

Parachute Regiment = Best of British.
Trident = Lockheed Martin, and American profits.

And we all know how Tony and friends do their sums, don't we?

There are times when I think

There are times when I think to myself, there is little else this stupid, irresponsible, lickspittle American poodle party can do to damage the countries current and future well being. Oh God, how can I be so wrong, these rose tinted specs the lovers of Labour are wearing are beginning to look that way because they were dipped in the blood of the innocents of Iraq, and now our own once proud and respected armed forces. I am at a pure loss to find a single glimmer of rationality for these decisions. It is the case that empirical evidence is presented day after day showing the absolute and current necessity for a viable military ground force to support the lies and delusions of a clearly mentally deranged Prime Minister. Why then can they somehow demand the reduction of the means required to maintain this force whilst at the same time 'assuring' Britains security by buying Trident. The obvious differences between the two are that the forces can point their weapons at a known enemy and do something about it, we cannot say the same for our nuclear option, we can't point them at anybody, we can put them in little boats and take them on little cruises, little else.
Does anyone know how to force a general election please. If there were a way then I would be pleased to be a part of the organization of it.

I don't buy this story.

I don't buy this story. It's a fix. I hate to say it, but why should we fall for this managed nonsense?

There's plenty of other things the MoD can economize on. All they've done is picked some very indefensible cuts, wrote them up into a very bad plan, and leaked it to the papers. Either the Treasury has to cough up all the money that has been requested, or they have to go in to the MoD and micro-manage the cuts.

Civil servants know of a million different ways to not cooperate with something they don't want to do, and get away with it. It's their ultimate weapon. Like malicious compliance.

Can you shoot straight??

Can you shoot straight??

Don't understand why Army

Don't understand why Army Recruitment hasn't set up a Polish office in Gdansk or Warsaw, or done a deal with Brook Street Bureau (Poznan) or Top Temps (Poland) Ltd.

I foresee some ads like, 'No Asda chicken gibleting experience? Then there's a job waiting for you in HM Forces!'

Nostradamus hints at just

Nostradamus hints at just this in a few quatrains prior to the 27 years of Russo Muslim semi nuclear jihad he foresaw. Jihad is the beheading, deportation, rape and killing of The White Devils, by the way....

"People carousing and drinking and playing.......government being dishonest about their state of armed forces readiness...the Russian Bear makes base at Bonn but shows it's claws at Poitiers when the small Western Airforce will be ruined...."

One interesting thing was Hitler's total stupidity and lack of knowledge about the Russian T-series tank manufacture in Siberia...I wonder if the West somehow thinks the Russians have no navy as alot of ships are rusting at Murmansk...how many more state of the art stealth (the Russians always mimick US advances) battle submarines / cruisers are hidden away in barns ready to be launched at a moments notice...

The War he foresaw leads me to a perverse smile....yes, Monaco, Switzerland and The Vatican (wealthy Christian Playgrounds) can be taken and Gibraltar avoided at very little effort...and will have the effect of diverting NATO movements to the Med.....whereupon Russia begins it's tactical assault...
THEN WE WILL KNOW SHOCK AND AWE, MY FRIEND.


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