The Defence Secretary speaking about the MOD/SDR tomorrow...
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From the Torygraph a couple of days ago:
MoD's forced cuts could prove a blessing - Telegraph
Well let's just hope tomorrow's 'shock' doesn't come in the next 10 years.
MoD's forced cuts could prove a blessing - Telegraph
The cuts are going to be deep and hard, that much is clear now, but the hope is that the end of the next decade there will be an MoD that is fit to fight tomorrow’s wars.
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Let's face it as well, all of the GOC's expensive HQs could go or be "blobbed" up as well - there's another big saving. If a single Joint-HQ does form at HQ Land Forces, then that started life as an RFC/RAF Station anyway, so it would be "home from home"!
Must`ve had a lot of spare paint in the Pusser`s Locker.....Just put a big white number on the side,and it`ll be another Stone Frigate....nice to see all the lifeboats ready for a quick getaway as well...
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Chuffin' Eck..... £10 million big ones to build an ATC tower.... Is it just the one ATC tower or are there half a dozen of them...? £10 million quid for a brick building 60' high...... anyone fancy forming a company and bidding for the contract? Im sure I could come in with a figure way, way beneath that one
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A 10 million quid spend at Lossie is a sure sign that the place will be closed down soon after all the dosh has been paid to the contractors.
I would have thought that an Air Traffic control tower housed ground staff, apart from the occasional flying supervisor, of course.
The £10m project to build an air traffic control tower includes demolition of the existing facility and constructing two-storey office buildings for ground staff.
Are we suggesting here that this all goes hand in hand. The M.O.D. sprucens up an airfield, then... oh dear, it falls victim to cuts!! But not worry because B.A.A. or whoever are conveniently there to step up to the plate as it were and well... make good use of the facilities!
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Did I read that right?! 10 MILLION for an ATC Tower and some 2 storey outbuildings?. Anyone who pens that deal deserves to have his testicles stapled to his eyelids.
No doubt it will go ahead with the typical `look at me I'm fab` moment from the overseeing pleb in the RAF News, whilst the poor `end users` who will be working in it will be wishing they were consulted as to what they actually wanted instead of what fits the generic bill for 'MOD?...Ah, yes knock out any old sh!te and give them an extra zero on the the final value`.
We never learn.
ps. oh yeah and then close the camp anyways.
pps, I'll do it for 9 Million.
No doubt it will go ahead with the typical `look at me I'm fab` moment from the overseeing pleb in the RAF News, whilst the poor `end users` who will be working in it will be wishing they were consulted as to what they actually wanted instead of what fits the generic bill for 'MOD?...Ah, yes knock out any old sh!te and give them an extra zero on the the final value`.
We never learn.
ps. oh yeah and then close the camp anyways.
pps, I'll do it for 9 Million.
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