....and then we can sack all the Sqn Ldrs not in charge of Sqns, and all the Wing Cdrs not in charge of wings etc etc, Ive heard of thread drift but this one has hit the doldrums. Back to the point in hand gents.
Fact: There are equally qualified individuals of equal rank having served exactly the same length of service who are paid differing rates of pay! ...and in fact the looser (financially) may well be the higher motivated, harder worker. (No offence meant to anybody or any trade - in old school parlance).
Aside from being unfair, this is surely a court case waiting for a time and place. Or is somebody going to throw in crown immunity, which nowadays is pretty much inapplicable.
This is not causing just a bad atmosphere between peers, it is so sour as to be positively rancid. You can put WO2 where the sun dont shine for it will complicate matters totally. I am quite sure that in the near future somebody with a slant for litigation will sort this one, probably outside of a courtroom, less there be a precident. I suspect that the upper echelons are walking on eggs over the bad management to date let alone the impending future. Where is Jackonico whgen you need him? For a Labour Party who represents the "working man" should put their money were there lies are!
Sad to say boys and girls that in a manner similar to the destruction of the RAF in 1975, we have yet again been royaly shafted, and this time he has the nerve to use us as pawns in Tonys game of 'Risk' otherwise known as the politics of world dominance. Can we really be expected to do in Afghanistan what the Russians failed to do whilst being paid less than what is rightfully ours?