Bitter Ashes
23rd August 2009, 11:50
http://itn.co.uk/f6bea287a92f5ea52a6b5762400c78c6.html
A secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has concluded that the department's systems for acquiring new equipment are so inefficient they should be privatised.
The devastating report by Bernard Gray, a former adviser to Labour defence ministers, has found that the problems were so severe they were "harming our ability ... to conduct difficult current operations", according to The Sunday Times which has obtained a leaked copy.
It concluded that the MoD's equipment programme was £35 billion over budget, five years behind schedule, and could not be afforded in the long-term
The report was originally commissioned by the former Defence Secretary John Hutton and was supposed to have been published before Parliament broke for the summer recess last month.
However, ministers have now said that it will "feed in" to the forthcoming defence green paper, to be published early next year, which will pave the way for a full-scale strategic defence review once the general election is out of the way.
A MoD spokesman said the report would be published in due course.
We've known that the UK goverment's armed forces are primarily used to secure bourgeois intrests for a while, now it seems that there's suggestions of handing over more direct control of this to the bourgeois.
Instead of employers associations merely lobbying the goverment, or passing bribes to the party in power, now we have creeping over the horizon a system that would allow the bourgeois to directly have control over parts of the armed forces. A new kind of coersion has been born in the UK where the bourgeois would now able to lay seige to the armed forces until they comply with thier demands.
No doubt it's only the first step in many to ensure that the boot of capitalism is handed over to the bourgeois.
I dont know about you, but I consider this to be a very bad thing.
It's quite laughable too, because every time that any nationalised service has been privatised, in whole or in part, it's been worse off than when it was under goverment control. The NHS, British Rail and DWP are just a handful of examples of what happens when these parasites are trusted with "public services". Seems like a load of propaganda bull to make us try respect our bourgeois overlords to me.
A secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has concluded that the department's systems for acquiring new equipment are so inefficient they should be privatised.
The devastating report by Bernard Gray, a former adviser to Labour defence ministers, has found that the problems were so severe they were "harming our ability ... to conduct difficult current operations", according to The Sunday Times which has obtained a leaked copy.
It concluded that the MoD's equipment programme was £35 billion over budget, five years behind schedule, and could not be afforded in the long-term
The report was originally commissioned by the former Defence Secretary John Hutton and was supposed to have been published before Parliament broke for the summer recess last month.
However, ministers have now said that it will "feed in" to the forthcoming defence green paper, to be published early next year, which will pave the way for a full-scale strategic defence review once the general election is out of the way.
A MoD spokesman said the report would be published in due course.
We've known that the UK goverment's armed forces are primarily used to secure bourgeois intrests for a while, now it seems that there's suggestions of handing over more direct control of this to the bourgeois.
Instead of employers associations merely lobbying the goverment, or passing bribes to the party in power, now we have creeping over the horizon a system that would allow the bourgeois to directly have control over parts of the armed forces. A new kind of coersion has been born in the UK where the bourgeois would now able to lay seige to the armed forces until they comply with thier demands.
No doubt it's only the first step in many to ensure that the boot of capitalism is handed over to the bourgeois.
I dont know about you, but I consider this to be a very bad thing.
It's quite laughable too, because every time that any nationalised service has been privatised, in whole or in part, it's been worse off than when it was under goverment control. The NHS, British Rail and DWP are just a handful of examples of what happens when these parasites are trusted with "public services". Seems like a load of propaganda bull to make us try respect our bourgeois overlords to me.