Mod Axe Tea And Biscuits
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Mod Axe Tea And Biscuits
STORM IN AN MOD TEA CUP
Oct 11 2004
Daily Mirror
EXCLUSIVE
By Richard Smith
MILITARY top brass have been told not to help themselves to free tea and biscuits at meetings in the latest cost cuts.
Instead they will only get a cuppa at Whitehall HQ if a meeting will take at least two hours.
And a Ministry of Defence memo tells them to log all teas and coffees. They will then be charged to the unit using the conference room to stop visitors using the new refreshment machines.
A senior source said: "Officers who've led their men into battle are being treated like kids.
"We're just waiting for visiting American officers to have a bloody good snigger when they find out. This memo has torpedoed morale.
"We wondered if it was a joke."
But the rule JSP 462, Part 5, Chapter 1, Annex A on providing a £1.10 tea including biscuits is clear.
A MoD spokesman: "It's essentially ensuring tax-payers' money is used in the most efficient way."
Oct 11 2004
Daily Mirror
EXCLUSIVE
By Richard Smith
MILITARY top brass have been told not to help themselves to free tea and biscuits at meetings in the latest cost cuts.
Instead they will only get a cuppa at Whitehall HQ if a meeting will take at least two hours.
And a Ministry of Defence memo tells them to log all teas and coffees. They will then be charged to the unit using the conference room to stop visitors using the new refreshment machines.
A senior source said: "Officers who've led their men into battle are being treated like kids.
"We're just waiting for visiting American officers to have a bloody good snigger when they find out. This memo has torpedoed morale.
"We wondered if it was a joke."
But the rule JSP 462, Part 5, Chapter 1, Annex A on providing a £1.10 tea including biscuits is clear.
A MoD spokesman: "It's essentially ensuring tax-payers' money is used in the most efficient way."
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I hate to say it, and I don't agree with it entirely, but well done!!!
If we can't afford a hot drink for the station guards through the long, cold winter nights, how can we justify it for the airships in their gin palaces??
Mind, we are going to look pretty pathetic when we host foreigners aren't we??
Kind regards
TSM
If we can't afford a hot drink for the station guards through the long, cold winter nights, how can we justify it for the airships in their gin palaces??
Mind, we are going to look pretty pathetic when we host foreigners aren't we??
Kind regards
TSM
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Yet another fine example that our lords and masters have really got their fingers on the pulse. I suppose that if they save enough tea and biscuits, we may finally get some cost effective kit that is fit for the purpose it was procured for and not £750million over budget.
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They are probably trying to pay for the chairs that were such a cheap buy just recently!!
I just love it when the priorities are the correct way round.
" MoD chairs £1,000 each as troops face axe
By Michael Smith Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 12/07/2004)
The Ministry of Defence has bought each of its 3,150 Whitehall civil servants a £1,000 chair as it plans the biggest cuts in the Armed Forces since the Cold War.
The Herman Miller Aeron chair, described as the "most comfortable office chair in the world", is also the most expensive.
It is the kind David Dimbleby uses on BBC1's Question Time and has been on display at the New York Museum of Modern Art as one of America's designs of the decade.
The purchase is part of a £342 million refurbishment carried out at the ministry."
I just love it when the priorities are the correct way round.
" MoD chairs £1,000 each as troops face axe
By Michael Smith Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 12/07/2004)
The Ministry of Defence has bought each of its 3,150 Whitehall civil servants a £1,000 chair as it plans the biggest cuts in the Armed Forces since the Cold War.
The Herman Miller Aeron chair, described as the "most comfortable office chair in the world", is also the most expensive.
It is the kind David Dimbleby uses on BBC1's Question Time and has been on display at the New York Museum of Modern Art as one of America's designs of the decade.
The purchase is part of a £342 million refurbishment carried out at the ministry."
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Reminds me of a training establishment in the Midlands where the boss used to count the biscuits before and after the break, to see that the staff weren't having more than two each per break. At least there, the discontent was focussed on one man and his budget-obsessed control-freakery. If it's a matter of policy, people will feel shat-upon by the system itself. 
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PPatRoN
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Isn't that sort of behaviour a sign of a personality disorder?
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I'll admit I'm thick, but what does this mean ??
Glad I could help.
Yours in innate frugality.
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'congenital parsimony' = inborn stinginess. Or in other words, the bloke was a tight-fisted bastard since birth!
'Everyone loves a smart @rse'.....is that a sea farer's thing?
'Everyone loves a smart @rse'.....is that a sea farer's thing?
