UK Defence 'Critically Ill' - MOD Adviser

William 'Benghazi Bill' Hague

“The financial position of the department has not been resolved. For example, for all the promises of culling senior officer numbers your predecessor merely announced the appointment of a further four-star post, the new Joint Force Commander, but has failed to implement any of the suggested reductions.
“If you chose to leave things as they stand then you merely get to oversee a series of bloody annual spending rounds in which you will have to make unpopular choices and be blamed for them.”
He said the minister’s second choice was “to accept that the defence patient remains critically ill and the treatment so far administered has been remedial but not sufficient”. Read More.