UK Strategic Defence Review 2020 - get your bids in now ladies & gents
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What works for Armed Services doesn't work in the Police...... due to the very nature of the job, and basic Police skills learnt 'on the beat' that you take through the ranks, and this direct entry nonsense is one of several reasons why the Police Service in the UK has lost its way and become 'far too politicalized'.
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He’d have done it with a leave vote or remain I think, so that’s immaterial?
Or do you believe Dominic would be on the streets now if the country voted remain ?
can I borrow your rose tinted spectacles please?
It's called cause and effect, and Brexiters voted for this, literally.
Is there actually a department that looks at what some call waste, that looks at it from a Sun reader’s perspective?
If the military are seen to be wasting money on the ‘google pod’ ideas, then the public’s is never going to believe there’s a need for jets and tanks..
If the military are seen to be wasting money on the ‘google pod’ ideas, then the public’s is never going to believe there’s a need for jets and tanks..
Is there actually a department that looks at what some call waste, that looks at it from a Sun reader’s perspective?
If the military are seen to be wasting money on the ‘google pod’ ideas, then the public’s is never going to believe there’s a need for jets and tanks..
If the military are seen to be wasting money on the ‘google pod’ ideas, then the public’s is never going to believe there’s a need for jets and tanks..
There is a senior committee (chaired by VCDS) which scrutinises and endorses requirements for new capabilities (as opposed to replacements, which don’t tend to merit such senior attention). Something wacky like a fricken’ [email protected] would definitely attract their attention. Then there is the Scrutiny branch which, erm, scrutinises the larger investment proposals (technically, commercially, economically and financially) and produces a report which is filed as part of the accountability paperwork. The various investment approval committees aren’t bound by the findings but, to be fair, the accountants who run those committees do play things with a straight bat. However the scrutiny and approval processes are potentially vulnerable to manipulation by sponsors (or sometimes even DE&S) directing more analysis effort be ploughed into a preferred option such that the non-desired choices can be dismissed as ‘risky’ or ‘immature’, and of course there is the time-honoured method of wrapping the preferred choice up in so many international agreements (which can be established with precisely no scrutiny) that it has to be selected to avoid precipitating multiple diplomatic incidents. Cynic, moi?!
As a final tactic, the recommendations of the entire bureaucracy can be overturned on ministerial or Treasury say-so. That should have been obvious...
As a final tactic, the recommendations of the entire bureaucracy can be overturned on ministerial or Treasury say-so. That should have been obvious...
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Regardless of the stupidity or sanity or BREXIT (depending on which side of the fence you are on), it's pointless linking multiple events together. Defence has to negotiate and persuade whoever is in power. The significant imbalance between budget and ambition across the services meant a reckoning was inevitable.
Had BREXIT been defeated, a not unlikely alternative scenario was Cameron's slim 5-seat 2015 majority whittled down through rebellions/defections/retirements until an election was called in 2017/2018, with Corbyn becoming the new PM. I doubt Cummings will be any worse for defence & intelligence than a Corbyn government.
Regardless of the stupidity or sanity or BREXIT (depending on which side of the fence you are on), it's pointless linking multiple events together. Defence has to negotiate and persuade whoever is in power. The significant imbalance between budget and ambition across the services meant a reckoning was inevitable.
Regardless of the stupidity or sanity or BREXIT (depending on which side of the fence you are on), it's pointless linking multiple events together. Defence has to negotiate and persuade whoever is in power. The significant imbalance between budget and ambition across the services meant a reckoning was inevitable.
It's pointless linking multiple events together - see your entire opening paragraph. Still, it's important we know how we got here, especially as many now bemoaning the anticipated gutting of the armed forces were clamouring for it in the first place (and were warned this would be one of the likely consequences).
The significant imbalance between budget and ambition across the services meant a reckoning was inevitable - made much much worse by Brexit, both in terms of the billions spent so far and the billions projected to be lost to GDP.
Just making the point that Brexiters made this bed, and now we all have to lie in it.
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THAT is hilarious!
im guessing your a remain voter and believe Dominic Cummings is the anti- Christ created by leave voters.... we’re all doomed!
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Godwin's Law, FB. Look it up.
As for KB, I imagine a Venn Diagram of Brexiters and those who don't know the difference between your and you're would be a perfect circle. Curious that.
As for KB, I imagine a Venn Diagram of Brexiters and those who don't know the difference between your and you're would be a perfect circle. Curious that.
Has anyone actually met Cummings?
Most of the government paralysis comes from inert CS, and that’s been the case for many years. Cummings has got them thinking now.
There has to be change at the top, and the IR won’t get into that. There are far too many Queens, and a dwindling number of working bees. Cummings is more than welcome to take a hatchet there, because just look east.
Most of the government paralysis comes from inert CS, and that’s been the case for many years. Cummings has got them thinking now.
There has to be change at the top, and the IR won’t get into that. There are far too many Queens, and a dwindling number of working bees. Cummings is more than welcome to take a hatchet there, because just look east.
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If there were Venn diagrams for smug, know-it-all [email protected] and Remainers I guess those circles would overlap as well.
That being said, does every thread have to come round to Brexit?
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That being said, does every thread have to come round to Brexit?
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