Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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16,000 Soldiers to be made redundant.List includes front line and injured.
Help 4 Hero`s.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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fairly standard stuff, politicians spout stuff such as "we owe our armed forces a debt of gratitude" in the commons then send out redundancy notices.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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Disgraceful,that is the only work I can think of without swearing.No doubt Barry will justify it.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Why should I justify it John. I have said many times that I disapprove of Defence cuts. Defence is the only budget that should not be cut and, as soon as there is some cash, be increased.
We have got plenty of empty houses, where the barracks used to be...behind the Castle......totally empty apart from the Gurkas..
It has been designated for executive housing etc...............
Loads of empty, disused, neglected Barracks all around the country, because
no-one can make a decision............What's new
Most certainly, all of these soldiers could be houses.....just like that....
It is disgraceful indeed. Anyone who has had a hand in this should be ashamed.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Absolutely shocking indeed and as BarryW says defence should not be cut in any circumstances and indeed should be increased whenever possible.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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We need to define 'defence'. To my mind our recent operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya are nothing to do with defence, they are purely the pursuit of foreign policy objectives by military means and should be paid for out of the FCO budgets.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
There are two things here: I disagree with Peter and think the forays into the Arab countries was all about our defence, just from a different perspective, and that does not impact the disgraceful sacking - which is what it is - of our troops.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Dover has a whole range of barracks, from Western Heights to the Eastern.
So if we're called up into the Home Army, there won't be a shortage of facilities.
Our forays into the Arab countries.....
Have and always will be about Oil and Arms
If the Middle East grew cabbages and Bangladesh discovered Oil there would be a different balance in this world !!!!
I think emotion is not the correct judge when it comes to motivation about War's and all that goes with it........
Don't forget the crop of terrorists as well..........
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It is utterly disgraceful, to be handed a redundancy notice after finishing your latest tour ..... lost for words
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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The step son of somebody I know has been made redundant and is I believe on his third tour in Afghanistan, I should add not front line.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Agree totally.................being handed your redundancy when you have months to face on the front line.
.............being handed your redundancy with only one leg or no legs in hospital waiting for the medical team to tell you your OK to go home.
..................being handed your redundancy when you have served months /years coming home safe.
.................being made redundant.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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at least some we agree on.
as to the forces like the NHS(dare i say it) the forces needs reform, and decisions to thousands od troops in countries often not at war and more recent decisions to go to war over oil rather than in the interests of the country is questionable.
that said the redundancy notices is disgusting
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i agree with peter and mr norman, defence is not usually an issue when we send our troops in, i don't believe that the short term gain is worth it in the long run - we just get seen as modern day colonists.
the libyan people know the motivation of the west.
if we were concerned about terrorism we would extradite known terrorists back to places like egypt that have supplied us with dossiers on people that are resident in this country.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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think we are on the same lines howard
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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The reason we are interfering in the middle east is oil.
The reason we are in Afghanistan is terrorism.
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Afghanistan = poppies = heroine = morphine