Waggling Digit, you state
To put a slightly different slant on this and using an example from private industry, how would the 'moaners' on here feel if the Home Sec had said, "we will keep all helicopters with no base closures, but you all have to take a 10% wage cut to cover it" anyone want to volunteer for that?
Umm well unless things change a lot of Observers WILL be taking a big paycut thanks to Winsor, still to be sorted I believe... But as the wonderful Tory Govt want further cuts expect no change out of the system.
In fact expect NPAS to reduce the fleet even further. I fear the whole thing will be run as a cost cutting measure and the large metropolitan forces will suffer the most in lower response times etc.
I have read a lot of your posts and I wonder what world you live in? Is it full of roses and pretty little ba-lambs bouncing about in the fields? A reality check is needed, small the roses..they are full of shyte, check the lambs, they probably have 25% horsemeat in them...