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[John A Silkstone]

The row over defence spending on vehicles for troops on the frontline has been reignited after it was disclosed the MoD spent £730 million on meals, hotels and taxis for civil servants in a 12-month period.
It is more than twice as much as was spent on vehicles for servicemen and women in Afghanistan and Iraq.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/frontline/2222268/Defence-spending-row-as-chiefs-spend-andpound730-million-on-taxis%2C-hotels-and-meals.html

[PanzerBob]

solthum ......this how the road to military coupes start, your lads and lassies need to cover their butts, while your civies fatten their guts on the peoples coin!!!! Damn!!!

[John A Silkstone]

Army must wait for bombproof vehicles.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/army-must-wait-for-bombproof-vehicles-860871.html


Yet the Civil Service can spend cash on food, hotels and taxis.

Silky

[John A Silkstone]

I think I spent 25 years in the wrong profession
Silky

The Conservatives have accused the Government of running a "something for nothing" culture after it was revealed that civil servants banked more than £128 million in bonuses during the last financial year.

Shadow Treasury chief secretary Philip Hammond said taxpayers would be "horrified" at the figures, which showed the average bonus for senior civil servants in most departments was more than £7,000.

Mandarins in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport pocketed average payments of more than £11,000, with senior colleagues in the Home Office and Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) both averaging over £9,000 each.

The figures, which were obtained by the Tories through Parliamentary questions, showed the Ministry of Defence paid out the most in bonus payments during 2007/08 - £41.3 million.
Bonuses to staff at the Department for Work and Pensions totalled £36.6 million, including £3.7 million to workers at the soon-to-be-scrapped Child Support Agency.

Colleagues at the Treasury racked up £21.7 million, of which more than £19 million went to staff at HM Revenue and Customs - despite the agency losing discs containing the personal data of more than 25 million people late last year.

Civil servants at the Home Office got £5.7 million, staff at the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly DTI) were given £4.4 million, and those at Defra trousered £3.9 million.

Mr Hammond said: "Many families who are finding themselves squeezed between stagnant earnings and soaring living costs will be horrified by the use of £128 million of taxpayers' money to pay bonuses to civil servants.

"With Government failing on so many fronts, this looks like a 'something for nothing' culture."

[03Fox2/1]

The priorities of the civilian leadership that direct and command the military constantly surprises me and almost always disappoints me. Those who send men off to war should be held accountable for their selfish actions, especially when brave men are dying for lack of money or support. Only elections can get these people out of office and power and back where they belong, perhaps a public flogging ?

[PanzerBob]

Sadly most of our ostrich populations don't understand the value of military/police/and other emergency persons over that of a silly servant, until the monsters are hammering at their doors. Yet these same citizens are the ones who guaranty their way of life, not the politicos and their minions!!!

Teachers to some degree should be on that list as well.
IMHO salute;