The debate is needed now. It has to be FULL, OPEN and HONEST.
Do we want defence? If we do which comes first, the Wendy Lewis and Karen Matthews alliances, or the needs of those who give towards our Nation, their families and especially their children?
We spend a fortune on the former and allow the shiny trousers brigade to humiliate the latter.
War heroes are to be secretly sacked on the cheap as they fight on the frontline, The Sun newspaper has revealed.
The Army is planning to select soldiers for the chop while they serve out in Afghanistan.
But the troops will be told only after they return home from tough tours of duty.
But many others will be booted out under controversial regulations which were shelved years ago and have been quietly reintroduced. The system known as Manning Control Points, or MCP, will see troops given only a one-off cash sum and lose pension money.
Read more at www.modoracle.com
MCP was stopped in 2002 after a flurry of court cases and fears it could be illegal - but resurrected in the last days of the Labour government. Many soldiers targeted for the axe will have young families.
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