Originally Posted by
Rheinstorff
Quite, but if it’s actual VALUE is supposed to be in producing sufficient people who become engineering officers and it doesn’t, it’s not good VALUE. It might well generate goodwill, but there are doubtless considerably cheaper ways of doing that and some might even have a better effect.
If those that exploit the Welbeck system, but don’t join up, are switched-on, the Scheme might actually be harmful as they recognise it as the unnecessary waste of taxpayers’ money that it is. So, perhaps that VALUE proposition isn’t as simple as it seems at first pass?
I’m not and never have been a bean counter, but I have spent a considerable amount of time on the front line wondering why we lack all we need, but noting the wasted money on schemes that don’t deliver. Maybe I’ve misunderstood where real VALUE should lie, and it’s not important where the fighting is done. I’m sure someone will be along shortly on here to put me right.
Perhaps the issue here is not Welbeck, but the 'offer' from the MOD and the services?