Brown's treachery

clipped from cogitodexter.wordpress.com Brown’s treachery… So it appears that the MOD, for the last 10 years, can’t manage to buy anything for the armed forces without spending almost half as much again as it should and taking nearly twice as long as it should to do it. Furthermore – and as a result – the MOD is running out of money to do its job. Apparently the MOD has been failing since 1999. Brown (and Blair before him) have utterly betrayed the armed forces. And we should all be disgusted by that, for the misery that such a failure causes in lost lives and shattered families.

Twelve years I have been writing this. Personal experience means nothing to a government that is wholly interested in self preservation, greed and envy. Had the military the courage of the troopie, the Brass would have stuffed Health & Safety up the politicos arsehole. All too often we are witnessing the legacy of politicians enforcing political correctness on a way of life that not a one has the faintest clue about.

Only recently I have witnessed young officers doing a single tour of the battle zones, to come home and resign, yet The Brass does nothing. What have these honourable and courageous young people witnessed that has marked them so badly?

Every piece of video news from The Front fills me with anger as I witness my life’s work being destroyed with the needless waste of all these young lives. Young Brits who ought to have gaining from my generations knowledge, but they have not. Whilst I salute the valour and contribution of the women on the front line, I cannot help but be reminded of a lowering of expectation which GAVE the legendary Green Beret to an Army lass purely for political expedience, the purchase of the ill-conceived SA80 Assault Weapon, the litany of diabolically inept procurement for the RAF, the Navy and the Army whilst the costs are hidden from the purchaser – the tax payer, all symptomatic of the laissez faire attitude of the electorate and the government.