"Damned fine idea but you know that the strawberries will be safe and the 25% cut will come from servicemen and women"
Sorry Vec, totally wrong - MOD CS has already been told to prepare for large scale job cuts (even more than the 40,000 we've had in the last 10 years) and grapevine indiciates we are to expect to lose at least 10- 15% BEFORE SDR (i.e. SDR is likely to bring another raft of cuts in).
As for Forces manpower - having heard a senior RAF Officer note that a lot of our financial issues could be solved by losing around 20,000 uniformed posts, you do wonder whether there is some sense in that if commitments / FE@R are cut too...