Typical political headline grabbing bluster and BS. Start chucking people out their jobs or holding them otherwise accountable for poor performance is absolutley super standard throughout the UK...BUT...if anybody does so without following due process, its a quick trip to the local employemnt legal eagles and kerching "we're in the money". The MOD has already been down this road plenty of times and so have many other parts of the public sector. The private sector is rarely this dumb anymore (plenty of cases still easily found tho) and any savvy firm will take specialist legal advice before acting in this way.
Due process in this case would mean the MOD proving that anybody "being held accountable" had been correctly selected and trained for the role (lmfao) and then subjected to a graduated/structured review process at the first sign their performance was not up to scratch. Assuming of course you could find anyone to do the job if it came with a *****ing huge red flag hanging over it.
Article and the politician's bombastic b******cks don't amount to a hill of beans. Thanks for posting though...always good to have a laugh at a politicians expense.