Labour call for SDSR review in the wake of recent events in Africa,

[spike7451]

He has a valid point if recent events were'nt factored into the decisions...

http://www.bfbs.com/news/navy/labour-calls-sdsr-be-reopened-62590.html

Recent events in Algeria, Mali and Libya undermine the defence review which provoked Army redundancies announced today and the plans should be reopened, Labour has said.

Shadow Defence Secretary Jim Murphy said none of the North African countries had even been mentioned in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, which was carried out in 2010.

But Defence Personnel Minister Mark Francois defended the plans, insisting they were necessary to meet a defence spending deficit. He pledged the Ministry of Defence would seek volunteers where possible and give support to those leaving the forces.

Under a third tranche of redundancies confirmed today, up to 5,300 people will leave the Army under plans first announced in October 2010. The goal is to reduce the Army to 82,000 personnel while reinforcing the reserves.

Asking an urgent question in the Commons, Mr Murphy said: "The Government's defence review committed the UK to an Army of 95,000 but didn't even mention Mali, Algeria, Tunisia, Nigeria or even Libya.

 

[John Lloyd]

Attention grabbing b@stards! Their mouths move therefore they lie.

 

[Downsizer]

Cuts would have been no different under them...

 

[MattBombHead]

Cuts would have been no different under them...

Fully agreed DS. They're just opportunistic headline grabbing bar-stewards.

 

[techie_tubby]

I completely agree that Labour are simply shouting what people want to hear but....do they have a point? If Cameron is planning his next escapade in Africa should the SDSR be reviewed and/or ammended?

 

[John Lloyd]

I completely agree that Labour are simply shouting what people want to hear but....do they have a point? If Cameron is planning his next escapade in Africa should the SDSR be reviewed and/or ammended?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! You said 'Planning' DT_Xtremez_31:

Cameron is a victim of believing his own hyperbole. He is a slave to Circumstance and until the worst happens, like the first day of the Somme or a bad afternoon at Isandlwana he will continue to cut, we are after all skint (So they tell us).

Public (Voters) opinion has been acclimatised to individual deaths by the pageantry of repatriation over the last 12 years so losses are now acceptable.

 

[Tubby]

Is that like the review they held in thier last ten years of power. Oh, hang on....
Still trying to find a band wagon to jump regardless of the hipocracy of it.

 

[Realist78]

Not really news. Libya is done and dusted, the Algerians sorted their own mess out and we've assisted the French with a C17 or 2.

 

[Warwick Hunt]

Was this the same SDSR that had to be called due to fill a massive gap in not just the defence budget but the Treasury as a whole, a gap that was created by the previous Labour government's profligacy and downright irresponsible and reckless spending of money we didn't have?

 

[spike7451]

I see a review carried out as part of the SDSR has decided that a Trident replacement may not be needed or financially viable...

http://www.bfbs.com/news/uk/new-trident-not-financially-realistic-62599.html

 

[John Lloyd]

So that's it then, another promise from Dave

The Prime Minister has moved to reassure Armed Forces chiefs by pledging that the Treasury will increase defence spending above inflation from 2015, even as it cuts other Whitehall departments’ budgets.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9838305/No-more-defence-cuts-says-David-Cameron.html

 

[he_who_dares_rodney]

Labour seem to have all the best ideas when they are in opposition.
Pity they are ****ing useless when they're in Goverment.

Have they thought to blame Thatcher yet?