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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Ian Drury
Last updated at 1:58 AM on 25th January 2012
Not a single penpusher has been sacked under Ministry of Defence job cuts despite the ‘grotesque’ axing of hundreds of troops, a damning report reveals today.
MPs say it is ‘stark and shocking’ that no bureaucrats have been made compulsorily redundant yet 40 per cent of the military personnel culled were forced out.
In a scathing attack on the MoD, the Commons defence select committee hints that civil servants might also have received a better voluntary redundancy package.
No ‘penpushers’ have faced compulsory redundancy yet 40 per cent of military personnel culled were forced out
‘The MoD should consider whether the terms offered to either the military or civilian staff [were] fair or appropriate,’ the MPs’ report says.
The committee also criticises the claim by top MoD mandarin Ursula Brennan that civilians were more likely to apply for voluntary redundancy because they were more ‘flexibly employable’.
The report says: ‘This runs contrary to our experience.’
Under the Government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review, unveiled in 2010, the Forces must lose 17,000 personnel by 2015 – 7,000 from the Army and 5,000 each from the RAF and Royal Navy.
£5BN MILITARY HARDWARE GOES AWOL
The Ministry of Defence is also criticised by MPs for losing £5.2billion worth of equipment – more than the £4.7billion of savings it has been told to make in the next four years.
Weapons and £125million of battlefield radios were among the items that went missing, raising fears they could have fallen into the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The report by the Commons defence committee says it is ‘concerning’ that nearly 4,100 state-of-the-art Bowman digital communications systems, introduced in 2007, could not be found.
MPs are also worried about soaring levels of theft and fraud in the MoD.
Equipment worth £1.9million was stolen last year – including £50,000 helicopter blades and night vision goggles worth £45,000 – compared with £376,000 worth in 2006-07.
The number of thefts rose from 167 in 2006-07 to 433 last year.
Fraud more than doubled from 254 cases to 592.
Ursula Brennan, the MoD’s top civil servant, said it focused on guarding weapons and other dangerous equipment.
The MoD will eventually lose around 32,000 civil service posts. Ministers have been ordered to make £4.7billion of savings within four years and to plug a £38billion equipment overspend.
Some 2,900 servicemen and women were selected for the first tranche of redundancies last year, with the Army and RAF each losing 920 posts, and 1,020 being cut from the Navy.
But only 60 per cent applied for redundancy, meaning around 1,200 members of the Forces were sacked. A second round of 4,200 cuts was announced last week.
By comparison, not one civil servant has been forced to quit the MoD in the first two redundancy rounds, set to total 15,000 penpushers. Instead, all volunteered to leave.
The report says: ‘For military redundancies to be compulsory in 40 per cent of cases, yet for civilian redundancies to be compulsory in none, is so grotesque that it requires an exceptionally persuasive reason, which we are yet to hear.’
MPs say Forces personnel should be retrained in areas of the military where there are shortages, such as bomb disposal, logistics and healthcare.
Labour defence spokesman Jim Murphy said ministers were treading a ‘thin line between callousness and carelessness’ over the job cuts.
‘Thousands of service personnel are being unceremoniously sacked,’ he said. ‘It is essential that the painful impact of David Cameron’s decisions is minimised wherever possible.
‘The committee are right to suggest retraining for all those made compulsorily redundant.’
The MPs’ report – into the MoD’s annual report 2010–11 – also expresses dismay that the National Audit Office spending watchdog had refused to give the seal of approval to the department’s accounts for the fifth successive year.
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Nina
Ex military personnel in the MoD is the only experience that department will have of working in the Defence. If no ex military it would work along the same lines of the Defence Minister not understanding defence and military issues. This has been the case with every successive government and particular the latest crop of career politicians who have no experience of real life let alone the subject of the department they are running
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“It’s like the NHS, Trillions of pounds to run, plush offices and senior management consultants everywhere. Shambolic run down hospitals and a few Doctors who cannot speak English, and a few nurses that do no care!”
– Steve Hasnip, England, 25/1/2012 12:18 – Plush offices?!!! I work for the MoD and my office is singles glazed, freezing, littered with aspestos and there’s radon everywhere! If far more civilians have volunterred than Armed Forces then there has to be compulsary Armed Forces redundancies and not civilian. In fact the first round of the Voluntary Early Release Scheme for the MoD was over-subscribed. Having said that I think the level of cuts in the Armed Forces and equipment (Aircraft Carriers and Harriers we need now more than for a long lime!) has been too high.
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This is very good news. I would prefer to see these people, alive and standing in a dole queque in civvy street as opposed to seeing them laid dead in an Iranian desert as a result of our governments war mongering policies.
Jack ( Worksop, Notts.)
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Cameron to Carr, BBC interview 2010 : My spending cuts will *not* affect front line services. Well there’s honest call me Dave for you. Suggestion to Cameron
– Wised Up, Edm, 25/1/2012 12:26
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In 2010 few knew about the awful mess Labour had got us into. What would have happened if he’d said I cannot say anything until I see what mess Labour has left for us? Clue. Get on.
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Untrue – I know many civil servants who have lost their jobs through cuts – it always fascinates me that those who know the most about the civil service are those who have never worked there. Also I would like to remind DM readers that many civilian jobs are done by ex military people (many of whom have NEVER been to the front line) – AND these ex military ‘civil servants’ draw a hefty pension all the time they are taking a salary from the MOD. Get rid of ex military personnel doing desk jobs and the problem in the MoD will be solved
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What a complete non-story. It just shows the civil servants at the MoD are so disenchanted that they have jumped at the chance of voluntary redundancy,whereas service men and women enjoy their jobs and have to forced to leave. Not exactly a great surprise is it!!
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Not quite true .. ! Over the past 18 months there has been a steady decrease in the number of Civil Servants being paid off, to reduce the budget of various Departments. What is outstanding and surprising, is that the Armed Forces are being reduced at a time that more trouble is expected in the areas of the Falkland Islands and Straits of Hormuz. It does make you wonder what is going on in the Palace of Westminster – and it used to be that the Tories were very supportive of the Armed Forces personnel …… obviuosly not so nowadays !
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If you are so indignant about this DM and supportive of our troops, why is this story tucked well down under the listing under some damaged dummies on a roller coaster and Jennifer Aniston’s new house and not forgetting Big Brother??????????
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Cameron to Carr, BBC interview 2010 : My spending cuts will *not* affect front line services. Well there’s honest call me Dave for you. Suggestion to Cameron – Your chancellor George may be useless at finance but he has got a degree in history. Ask him what happened to the nations defence when the armed services were continually cut back pre 1939. If he gives you one of his blank looks shrugs his shoulders, put the telly on and watch a re-run of Dad’s Army.
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MoD not had its accounts approved for five years?Sounds a bit like the EU
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