Strategic Defence Review: MoD budget cuts of 8% by 2015

[Arthurgray50@blu]

It has just been announced on Sky, that the MOD have to agreed to budget cuts of less than 10%.

What next ?

[Peter_]

Can we have a link please.

[alferret]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Snipety, snip, snip, snip!
What next ?

What next as in what arfur?
Something like this perhaps? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11556767

Ministers have agreed the schools budget for England and are to claim schools will be protected from across-the-board cuts, the BBC has learnt.

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Arthur becomes capable of posting links to support his posts?

Failing the appearance of such supporting evidence the admins decide Arthurs posts are trolling the forum?

Arthur is banned?



Alternative scenarios exist, of course - for example ...

- the admins decide they love Arthur posting unsubstantiated nonsense and allow him to continue as a member of the forum.

- ordinary members denied this privilege decide to cease posting/responding in these forums - Arthur remains the only member of Cable Forum.

- The admins are happy, no controversy exists.....

[Lew]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11556770

…the final figure is thought to be below 10% following Mr Cameron's intervention, our correspondent added.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

It has just been announced on Sky, that the MOD have to agreed to budget cuts of less than 10%.

What next ?

Arthur


READ THIS and learn from it. If you make a statement on a forum it is the norm to provide a link to the source of that information or people will not believe a word you say.

[Lew]

OK, I think the point has been made. Let's try to keep the posts on topic from now on please.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

It has just been announced on Sky, that the MOD have to agreed to budget cuts of less than 10%.

What next ?

So did you want them to be cut more than 10% Arthur which will then place our lads on the front line at even greater risk than they are now ????

[Derek]

Arthur. Do you accept that as a country, the UK is spending more money than it generates?

Assuming the answer is yes how would you deal with that issue?

[Raistlin]

Arthur. You've posted a statement, asked a question, but given us no idea as to your own position on the matter.

10% of the defence budget is a massive amount of money. It's also a cut thay's perfectly possible to make without affecting the front line, without endangering the troops/missions, and without cutting jobs. The only problem is that it won't be done the way it should be, the wrong vehicles for reducing cost will be employed, and the required savings will be met but only at considerable cost down the line.

[PeteLockwood]

a JOKE, scrap foreign aid instead ! the military dont have enough money as it is!!

I really think that your all approaching this at the wrong angle. It's going to be less than 10% after intervention from the PM. The cuts were going to be more drastic which we are led to believe is vital hence the termination of many new schools being built, social services being quite badly cut it would seem, university funding being slashed and students required to pay the highest tuition fees in the world instead.

Perhaps the lesson to learn then is that maybe we should protest (or even riot) when a decision is made to drag us into being peacemakers yet again..Maybe we should leave it to Europe to make those sorts of decisions?

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Perhaps the lesson to learn then is that maybe we should protest (or even riot) when a decision is made to drag us into being peacemakers yet again..Maybe we should leave it to Europe to make those sorts of decisions?

If the government leave those sorts of decisions to Europe we should definitely protest.

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Originally Posted by Damien

I really think that your all approaching this at the wrong angle. It's going to be less than 10% after intervention from the PM. The cuts were going to be more drastic which we are led to believe is vital hence the termination of many new schools being built, social services being quite badly cut it would seem, university funding being slashed and students required to pay the highest tuition fees in the world instead.

It should be noted that claim was made by the University and College Union and has methodological issues, not least of which being that it leaves out private Universities, which charge prodigious fees, and doesn't account for that in some places, such as the US, degree courses are 4 years.

It doesn't take account of various variations either, for example that some institutions have varying levels of fees depending on where in the country the student is from, bursaries, charitable donations to universities that fund courses, etc, etc, etc.

It's a nice easy comparison and a misleading one which conveniently suits the UCU point of view. Their solution is that, because companies benefit so much from this education, the government should raise corporation tax and abolish tuition fees. I'm sure employers such as my own would be fine with that given their last 3 hires were from outside the UK as no suitable and qualified candidates were available.

Regarding other cuts I'll wait and see what the spending review has to say.

Fair enough. I was wrong, I retract the part of my post where I claim it's the highest in the world.