MoD

I see the reports coming in confirm my suspicions about 'cuts' in the MoD. Front line troops who risk life and limb on low pay are considered dispensable, but office workers with their higher pay, safety, pensions, bonuses and payouts for 'stress' cannot possibly be lost. It is becoming clear that in the not too distant future we will have offices across the country brimming with staff employed at public expense, but who don't actually do anything.

There will be no binmen, no nurses or doctors, no police on the streets or fire service. Instead there will be senior officers in their headquarters with staff and secretaries, all busily running no-one. If you have no frontline, why do you need a bureaucracy? Only those in government, paid from the public purse could answer that one. It is what they are largely doing today.

We are paying for endless reams of talking shops; government departments that talk to Quangoes who hire Management Consultants. Outcome? Usually more tax to pay for more of the same and misery for anyone trying to achieve anything themselves, for their activity attracts the attention of the bureaucrats. You present them with an opportunity, an opportunity to interfere.