Originally Posted by
ORAC
Perhaps a distraction, but unrest in the HoC Defence Committee.
Watching the Committee on TV, its fairly obvious Ellwood sees his job as protecting MoD from its most embarrassment failures, and perpetuating the party line on certain key issues. Such as their recent report on procurement, claiming there have been no safety problems in the RAF post-Nimrod Review. Tell that to the families of the Red Arrows personnel who lost their lives since then. Nimrod Review headline: no valid safety case. Hawk headline: no safety case. Glider headline: no safety case. They say they can't identify who made the decisions. Here's a clue. MoD has organisational charts, and a telephone directory. And in case that 's not enough, it's released the information under FOI.
It doesn't surprise me he has upset some members. He very openly doesn't like witnesses being asked awkward questions. His horrified facial expressions whenever Johnny Mercer used to speak were a picture, and it's the same now with Dave Doogan. (ex MoD engineer). There's some very poor members (Spellar for one), but also some good ones who probably don't like the direction the Committee takes.