“mod Whitehall is seriously over staffed. how many admirals do we now have per ship? all admirals are on half pay until death no worries about pensions for them. suggest the army /air force top brass are same position. but its these people who will make the cuts. glad my time is up.”

“we now have politiions with no real world exspearience. running this land like fools.
ok when is enough enough !! when is the writting on the wall that the goverment is becoming incompitent.
so who is going to rise! like the phenix to save our land. to get these blameless nerds out of office.”

“Very amusing! Get rid of the best Commando Forces in the world just to save money, not even an
option! If you want to save money and get rid of an organisation that is 'neither use nor ornament';
get rid of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.

Semper Fi!”

“Just because you need to save money doesn't mean you have to sell your military hardware. There are lots of other places to make cuts. The MOD employs a large amount of office staff, a lot of them actually redundant as far as usefulness goes. Usage of resources in office environments is also woefully inefficient, from paying double the lowest price for their paper to using twenty times as much due to a significant amount of red tape.

The spending cuts are necessary, but where the money is proposed to come from is downright stupid. The requirement is to reduce spending by "x amount", however the decision is made by people in offices, the same people that waste a significant amount of money. Sometimes not by fault, they may be doing their job as best as they are able, but someone somewhere is doing the exact same job, when you only need one. In other cases it's a case of poorly allocated resources - like when the Government department set up to ensure the government gets value for money was spending 50-100% more on paper than they needed to.

Now what paper-pusher in their right mind will turn around and say "We need to cut our office staff, myself included"? In this economic climate? Probably nobody. However, there are some cuts which simply cannot be made, and the extensive axing of our military presence is one of them. Grow a pair and admit your job is not worth the security of our nation (or lack of).”

“every year a paper exercise is carried out to see how much it would cost to wind up the corps. return trucks hand back barracks and pay off the troops. it has never happened last time i was aware this exercise was serious the falklands kicked off and what happened then.
it will never happen perhaps the corps will absorbed into a larger organisation. but who would want to be in the rlc (rather large corps) better the paras went
former bootneck”

“These Defence cuts are all aimed at this country merging with EU forces, to bring about one large defence system run by those unelected money grabbing MSP's in Brussels. They are hell bent on ruining our country, and to ensuring our subservience to the EU. I f they can't break us one way they will try another untill they do.”

“People have the power to do something about it, they just sit back and do nothing, Cameron said at Pre election, if we were not happy with our MP's we could sack them, well people sack him, hold this man to his word or is he just like any other Poliician, Full of It”

“Vote Tory - your country's safe with us!”

“Well done cameron enjoy ur power because it wont last u wont get in again ur killing this country why dont u join blair hes not missed nor will u the worst goverment weve ever had . bluebell”

“I'm quite relieved as to how this coalition government is performing.....They are doing a great job of making themselves completely unelectable for the next 20 years...keep going Cameron/Clegg.....the wilderness awaits!!!!”