> But there again how widespread is the discontent, is it just the serial
> ranters of PPRUNE, Rum Ration ans ARRSE who make a large ripple in an
> extremely small fish pond?
I have spent a maximum of about 24 hours total standing on MoD property, and even I'm beginning to question the "cuts plus deployments" approach, although 232 Typhoons seems positively generous.
If you go to a nursing forum you will hear similar things being said about the NHS, which also holds people's lives in the palm of its hand, and the RNLI was never even government funded in the first place. You aren't alone, not that that makes it right.
In a wider sense you could go to a BECTU meeting and listen in on griping about the precipitous decline of television in this country, previously a world-leading national asset. Given all this, it's hard to shake the impression that the place is turning nationally to cack.
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