Defence chiefs are also said to have paid £103 each for screws, believed to be on sale online for £2.60.
These examples of spending gone mad are directly as a result of de-valuing civil servants who are the best people to safeguard the public purse and drive value for money procurement.
Instead, the continuing obsession with privatisation, where contractors add their profit slice to any contract, leaves people open mouthed when such wastes of public money are highlighted.
The ConDem coalition is destroying 25,000 civilian jobs in the Ministry of Defence. Many of these jobs are in remote rural locations, where their loss will destroy the local economy.
The politically driven cuts defence face will directly impact on the front line and the defence capabilities of the United Kingdom.
The RAF will be cut by 12 per cent, the Royal Navy by 14 per cent and the army by almost 7 per cent.
The cuts will leave the UK armed forces with around 159,000 personnel, a force smaller than the armed forces of Sri Lanka and about the same level and Bangladesh.
There is an alternative to job cuts:
- Employ civil servants to protect the public purse and drive value for money procurement
- There is no need for cuts to public services or further privatisations
- Creating jobs will boost the economy and cut the deficit. Cutting jobs will damage the economy and increase the deficit
- We should invest in areas such as housing, renewable energy and public transport
- The UK debt is lower than other major economies
- There is a £120 billion tax gap of evaded, avoided and uncollected tax
- The UK holds £850 billion in banking assets from the bailout – this is more than the national debt
- End the use of consultants
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