Royal Marines move to Plymouth 'not value for money'

“3rd reincarnation of the same story published again...........Oh dear, Herald!”

“pogle63a - Go away and read your history. The government didn't send those men into the front to die. That was the job of Field Marshall Haig (or Butcher Haig,as he was known).
His aim was to throw as many men as possible at the enemy in the hope the Brits would prevail. A sick man, some say. Men as cannon fodder. And that was a senior military officer, not the government.
God help us all, if we ever get to be run by the military.”

“Remember everyone....stop the tide of eastern European immigration


VOTE BNP”

“The reason why our armed forces are in such as state is that few of those actually in charge of them have the balls to stand up to these intereferring politicians and say enough is enough and actually take action to stop the cuts. Sadly the lure of knighthoods and lifelong pensions for those in charge of our armed forces virtually guarantee their silence and allows the hacking to go on.
The Government has already broken its accord with the Armed forces and abuses its authority be deploying them under equipped, into conflicts whose purpose is at best dubious to the real defence of our country.
As a former serviceman of 25 years I respect all our armed forces for the job they do and their dedication to duty. I have no respect however for politicians who would have us believe that the either the invasion of Irag or the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan is doing or has done anything to improve our homeland security, despite the best efforts of our troops.
Funny how the Government can forget things the Battle of the Somme 60,000 casualties in one day! Again 61 000 British troops launched on the Allied Invasion of Europe.
God help us all if the need to do the same ever came about today.
I for one would like to see just once someone incharge of the Military say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and follow it through.”

“Nice rant, queenie...I hope you feel better now :-)”

“does our dozey goverment realise scaling down our armed forces is absolute nuts , these so called ministers , havent a clue , about what the forces need and dont need , haveing spent 22 yrs in the navy,, it just goes to show that how desperate things are wen you have to ask other ships for things that you havent got , now they want to get rid of pour tanks the famous desert rats , these mps , do they realise that the terrorism in the world is expanding not only to the middle east and asia but the rest of the world and as an empire and a member of nato our armed forces should have the ships tanks aircraft what ever they need should be at hand for them and accessable 24 hrs, not to be told no you cant have it by auditors, this country would save a lot of money that we give in aid to countries . do we get aid for the disaters that happen in our own country , no we just get on with it , its about time this country started getting selfish . and stopped dishing money let right and centre, and started thinking about our own people , all this benefit money that gets redirect to other counties , if there not in this country then they shouldnt be able to get it simple. ur own people cant get the right benefits, close our borders, stop immigration, and remove ourselves from the eu and stop ourselves being told what to do all the time , its bad enough by told our own goverment do you want me to go on ?? its about time this country had our voice back ......................”