New Head of British Armed Forces?

The Money Flow

One of today’s (4th Feb 2010) headlines covers the ongoing scandalous behaviour of a few select Members of Parliament and their now well and truly exposed; desire to line their own pockets, with as much of the folding green stuff as they can lay their hands on. Sir Thomas Legg will, as the head of the Inquiry, criticise greedy MPs and demand from about 350 of them, repayments amounting to a million Pounds Sterling.

The Conservatives are suggesting in another headline, the country could save a lot of money by reducing the size of parliament, understanding fewer members of Parliament; means lower costs, and a terrific savings. They want to jigger the boundaries yet again to enable, in their words, votes of equal measure.

Meanwhile, in another office filled with overpaid angst, Military BigWigs are fighting for resources, for money to enable them to better kit and prepared their forces. Mr Bob Ainsworth, Defence Secretary, is going to suggest we have a single head of the Armed Forces rather than a head for each once. That ‘head’ could then decide upon budgets and allowances in an attempt to stifle the three existing heads who are all seeking a larger share of what little funds there are.

I bet the new ‘Head of the Armed Forces’, would need a salary commensurate with such a position, would require expenses to support that role, and underlings on equally attractive salaries. That person will require his own office in Whitehall, attendant staff and secretaries, alternative accommodations and all the festoonery allowances to go with it. There goes half the budget right off the bat. The outcome I fear is less funding going to fewer troops in an increasingly hostile world.

With the reductions in the budget for the Police, leading to fewer police officers, and or, lower paid police officers, or civilians doing a policing role on lower funds, we will be unable to defend our traditional British values at home; with fewer troops we will be unable to police situations away from home. But, we will have a comfortably paid for Government dictating to us that which we should do as they create new laws every day, creating teams of advisors to direct them, fritter away educational opportunities to help our children get into University, squander the fuels that give us heat and light and at the same time, tell us how well they are doing by reducing their free money supply on totally unnecessary new heads of armed forces.

VS