Overworked RAF faces manpower 'crisis'

[navibrator]

Waste

Perhaps we could list here all the things that should get reviewed or chopped BEFORE defence?

[minigundiplomat]

Most MP's
Political Advisers
QUANGOs
The 2012 Olympics
10% pay award for Teachers
Excessive Welfare Handouts
Signposts (Is it me or are there a lot more these days?)
The cost of being a member of the EU
Overseas Aid
Support to failing Banks
BBC (The licence fee is a tax in all but name)
Money spent achieving targets in Education and the NHS rather than providing a service
The Scottish Office (They have their own parliament)
The Welsh Office (Likewise)
Government forms printed in 72 different languages


That should do for starters!

[Melchett01]

Perhaps we could list here all the things that should get reviewed or chopped BEFORE defence?

How about the hiring of accountants and management consultants who have no idea about what we do and care only about the bottom line on a balance sheet.

And who when they have delivered their pointless and impractical report on their deliberations, charge us so much we have to axe more flying hours, another wad of cash for the front line, better accommodation etc to pay for their fees.

[collbar]

Chop JPA....... Please Oh Please... No really... Chop JPA!

[Farfrompuken]

Chop CATARA/Future Brize,

That'll save a princley sum for a start.

[phutbang]

How about reviewing flying pay? That not only does it divide people (nobody else gets extra money for doing their job on a daily basis), it IMHO is a waste of MoD cash that could be utilised on equipment, and not the lining of a select bunch.

[Flt Lt Mac]

not only does it divide people

It doesn't divide the important people. Pilots and WSO's get the same flying pay as each other.

and not the lining of a select bunch.

Sounds like a case of That's sour grapes to you.