you'd be comfortable with trimming down the foreign office and filling it with fresh out of protests, sorry college, graduates??
Ah, change is bad!
Better to hold on to those quite comfortably 'mowing the lawn' than inject any new blood. It is a known fact that not one single graduate leaving University in the next few years can spell or add up, and all rioted in London before Christmas.
In fact, let's stop recruiting graduates into the military (ok, I know we arent recruiting anyone right now) and just retain everyone until they are 67.
We need a balance in the military. No doubt the FCO is very similar in that respect.