I think pretty much everyone (who isn’t a absolute pacifist) is saying this, the war in Ukraine has clearly demonstrated the need for a strong military. Of course labour will get into government and cut defence because that’s just how this works
Wallace has been extremely vocal about increasing defence spending and hasn’t been afraid to challenge defence policy. He’s also ex-army, so unless he has some weird vendetta then I doubt he’s signing off on army cuts unless he thinks it’s a good idea – or at least the least bad idea when money needs to be found.
Would be interested to hear Healey and Wallace debate this, instead of the rather lazy line of “army numbers smaller therefore bad please vote for me for bigger number. Bigger number betterer and biggerer.”
The British army needs cuts….
To the upper echelons, so many officers for so few actual soldiers.
When I was in, we had excessive number of staff officers for the number of actual squaddies.
They need to reduce officers down to the actual required numbers, no more staff officers that haven’t seen a bft in 20 years.
They need to up the wages of the average soldier, when I was in my mates in civy live were out earning me on deployment whilst working in a factory…
We’re effectively paying another army (Ukraine) to do the job, while keeping our own as small as possible.
More or less standard procedure in British history.
I am not from the UK, I want to understand why National Service was unpopular and stopped (with unanimous support from both Conservatives and Labour) in 1960. It is quite popular in the Nordic countries where Norway, Denmark and Finland have already had it and Sweden stopped it in 2008 only to reinstate it in 2016. Is it because the Military tends to be segregated from the mainstream society in Britain ?
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I think pretty much everyone (who isn’t a absolute pacifist) is saying this, the war in Ukraine has clearly demonstrated the need for a strong military. Of course labour will get into government and cut defence because that’s just how this works
Wallace has been extremely vocal about increasing defence spending and hasn’t been afraid to challenge defence policy. He’s also ex-army, so unless he has some weird vendetta then I doubt he’s signing off on army cuts unless he thinks it’s a good idea – or at least the least bad idea when money needs to be found.
Would be interested to hear Healey and Wallace debate this, instead of the rather lazy line of “army numbers smaller therefore bad please vote for me for bigger number. Bigger number betterer and biggerer.”
The British army needs cuts….
To the upper echelons, so many officers for so few actual soldiers.
When I was in, we had excessive number of staff officers for the number of actual squaddies.
They need to reduce officers down to the actual required numbers, no more staff officers that haven’t seen a bft in 20 years.
They need to up the wages of the average soldier, when I was in my mates in civy live were out earning me on deployment whilst working in a factory…
We’re effectively paying another army (Ukraine) to do the job, while keeping our own as small as possible.
More or less standard procedure in British history.
I am not from the UK, I want to understand why National Service was unpopular and stopped (with unanimous support from both Conservatives and Labour) in 1960. It is quite popular in the Nordic countries where Norway, Denmark and Finland have already had it and Sweden stopped it in 2008 only to reinstate it in 2016. Is it because the Military tends to be segregated from the mainstream society in Britain ?