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Old 28th Sep 2021, 13:02
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Bengo
 
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Originally Posted by ORAC
There was an interesting interview with a retired army VSO on Sky this morning addressing the issue of support to the civil powers.

He noted that the previous government up to 2010 (e.g. Labour) had moved to such support being provided from within the civil community under contract - doubtless exactly as you suggest - but since the Conservatives got back int9 office they prefer to use the armed forces.

The problem with that is they seem to fail to understand how small the forces now re and how small a pool of people not required for their primary duties on a day to da6 basis there is - due in no small part of course to having identified all such posts as non-critical and privatised or contracted them out years ago anyway.

Putr gesture politics of course - how far do they think 75 drivers will go spread out across 24 hours and the length and the breadth of the country - 2 in London, 1 each in Manchester, Birmingham, Bath, Bristol etc?
It does not much matter how many drivers the Services can muster and train if there are not spare tankers for them to drive.

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