You all need to understand something which is quite basic really and it applies to all the other threads re allowance cuts, redundancies and Post SDSR et al.
Simply put the country has changed beyond
ALL recognition since the early 90's. Go in to any of the big five cities and the language spoken on the streets is not English. Soon if not now, the predominant religion in the country will not be Christian. A massive number of the indigenous population do not support our core values and aims of old and the so called “Y” generation have no idea of duty, service or community spirit. A large proportion of them, thanks to our dysfunctional education system cannot even read or write!
So we all have to accept and embrace the changes I am afraid or else appear dinosaur-esk in a rapidly changing multi cultural world. Let’s also be frank, our cold war Armed Forces have been misused big style over the last 15 years or so in order to further political aims that are at best highly dubious and at worst war crimes illegal.
I have huge regrets at the changes that are happening and the loss of capability but we need to get real. All we require are minimal defence forces as a part of a super United States of Europe which we are well and truly stuck with.
Even if some enemy were to appear on the horizon and threaten our homeland all would be lost anyway. We don’t have the heavy engineering to produce war machines and we have a population that doesn’t have the ability or the appetite to resist.
