"Interesting how we suddenly don't need all their jobs doing..."
Not really, its a case that the MOD has been told by Treasury to cut 25% of its posts whether it likes it or not! The jobs will still exist, but they'll be done by fewer people.
As usual people turn this into a vitriolic rant against the MOD CS. I fail to understand why people in the forces, who pride themselves on possessing the last bastion of decent manners, can be so shockingly rude to people who have made the clearly fatal error of not joining the forces, and instead doing a normal desk job instead. Most MOD CS are decent people who try to help as best they can, many have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans and for every jobsworth out there, you'll find hundreds of decent people.
If this was the RAF losing 1000 people now, you'd be screaming bloody murder. How about having the decency to accept that these people face a very uncertain future tonight, and stop gloating about it?