Weren’t the Tories and their media poodles telling us this would happen under Corbyn and a labour government. Funny how they are silent now.
Cutting the armed forces again?
They are already a joke they don’t need to be even more so.
>It adds the Ministry of Defence appears arrogant and unwilling to learn lessons by refusing to revise its plans.
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>The MoD said it would adapt its “strategy and response to meet emerging threats and challenges”.
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>The Integrated Defence and Security review, published in March 2021, was completed before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Nato’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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>But the new Defence select committee report says both those events are “seemingly dismissed as insignificant and there appears to be no intention to revisit the conclusions” of the review.
To quote pulitzer prize winning American historian Barbara Tuchman: “Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”
A reminder that the Tories have been in power for the best part of 12 years
They already get pneumonia in their barracks from poor conditions, the idea that Conservatives support the troops is a joke. Even if I disagree with the imperial projects are forces get shipped off to, I think the governments should honour their responsibility to their dependents fighting in their name.
Although historically most governments disagree right until a coup looks likely
Threats? Like internal revolutionary threats? Who would invade other than the French?
Cut the army even further or get rid of our nuclear deterrent. As a country we will never invade another nation with our army alone again. The UK will almost certainly always be taking part in a larger international operation and only needs to perform support tasks.
We share a land border with only one other country who isn’t a risk to our national security. Eliminate army funding, increase naval and air force and let’s reap the profits made.
Ironic isn’t it. I wonder how many members of the armed forces voted Tory over voting for Corbyn because they were worried Corbyn would cut the military.
It’s weird how the Tories always gut the armed forces but the armed forces love them.
I remember reading a book by a pilot in the Falklands war. In the space of one chapter he moaned about how short sighted the government (Thatcher’s government) was for wanting to make cuts to the Royal Navy, then spent half a page gushing over how amazing Thatcher was.
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Weren’t the Tories and their media poodles telling us this would happen under Corbyn and a labour government. Funny how they are silent now.
Cutting the armed forces again?
They are already a joke they don’t need to be even more so.
>It adds the Ministry of Defence appears arrogant and unwilling to learn lessons by refusing to revise its plans.
>
>The MoD said it would adapt its “strategy and response to meet emerging threats and challenges”.
>
>The Integrated Defence and Security review, published in March 2021, was completed before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Nato’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
>
>But the new Defence select committee report says both those events are “seemingly dismissed as insignificant and there appears to be no intention to revisit the conclusions” of the review.
To quote pulitzer prize winning American historian Barbara Tuchman: “Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”
A reminder that the Tories have been in power for the best part of 12 years
They already get pneumonia in their barracks from poor conditions, the idea that Conservatives support the troops is a joke. Even if I disagree with the imperial projects are forces get shipped off to, I think the governments should honour their responsibility to their dependents fighting in their name.
Although historically most governments disagree right until a coup looks likely
Threats? Like internal revolutionary threats? Who would invade other than the French?
Cut the army even further or get rid of our nuclear deterrent. As a country we will never invade another nation with our army alone again. The UK will almost certainly always be taking part in a larger international operation and only needs to perform support tasks.
We share a land border with only one other country who isn’t a risk to our national security. Eliminate army funding, increase naval and air force and let’s reap the profits made.
Ironic isn’t it. I wonder how many members of the armed forces voted Tory over voting for Corbyn because they were worried Corbyn would cut the military.
It’s weird how the Tories always gut the armed forces but the armed forces love them.
I remember reading a book by a pilot in the Falklands war. In the space of one chapter he moaned about how short sighted the government (Thatcher’s government) was for wanting to make cuts to the Royal Navy, then spent half a page gushing over how amazing Thatcher was.
The cognitive dissonance is bizarre.