Defence Minister goes racing.
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Slightly off topic but has ANY UK goverment no matter wot party been good for the M.O.D.? i cant think of a time when there hasnt been arguments delays or down right stupididty of penny pinching?
I think of the early eightys when ronald reagan entered office and basicly gave the cheque book to the military? how or armed forces must have looked on in envy!
I think of the early eightys when ronald reagan entered office and basicly gave the cheque book to the military? how or armed forces must have looked on in envy!
I do hope his time away has been spent acquiring the basics of MoD financial and project management.
He gave us his Defence Industrial and Technology Strategies but forgot the cardinal rule. Make sure you have top level buy-in and the wherewithal to implement - otherwise it's an aspiration, not policy.
Not that some of it needed implementing - I recall one part which discussed a technology MoD were going to invest in to see if it was viable, when it has been in service since 1997 and MoD already own the Intellectual Property Rights! Who writes this stuff?
Mind you, from what I've seen in DE&S, there's no-one left with the experience or knowledge to teach him. Especially in Land Systems.
He gave us his Defence Industrial and Technology Strategies but forgot the cardinal rule. Make sure you have top level buy-in and the wherewithal to implement - otherwise it's an aspiration, not policy.
Not that some of it needed implementing - I recall one part which discussed a technology MoD were going to invest in to see if it was viable, when it has been in service since 1997 and MoD already own the Intellectual Property Rights! Who writes this stuff?
Mind you, from what I've seen in DE&S, there's no-one left with the experience or knowledge to teach him. Especially in Land Systems.
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From what I saw he was an interfering twit with short term, ill-informed views. To let him near the tiller again would be a disaster; but then we are in such a crap state right now that it's all a matter of how bad it will be, not what is good.
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right so Drayson Buggers off to race cars and David Miliband misses a long planned state visit to adopt a kid................Good luck to them
............its not like there's a war on!
............its not like there's a war on!
Shame it's only 8th in class at the 6hr point though.
