£2.3 Billion on office refurbishment, when our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are ill-equipped and under paid.
The Wives living in Military accomodation are having to put up with sub-standard conditions.
The estimated cost of this MOD refurbishment works out at roughly £27,000 per sq. metre.
A good way to spend our taxes?
2007-01-08 09:24:37 · 7 answers · asked by researcher 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
quite easily really....
in order for grasping gordon to fund the increases in expenditure, without having to directly account for its (and therefore be held up to ridicule) he has shifted a vast amount of captial expenditure into PFI iniatives... essentially he is selling our sole to cook his books to make himself look a responsible chancellor. He calls it somehting like mortgaging.. except unlike a real mortgage the cost fdramatically rises within a few years.
Virtually without exception all major capitla expenditure ahs to go through a PFI/Public appraisal where the PFI schem nearly always gets the go ahead
examples of this fantastic wheeze have bene the sellinhg of the Inland Revenue Taxx Offices to a tax exile company... you couldnt make it up, and then promptly end up paying 3x's the original contract price.
So it doens't surprise me one bit that the only way the MOD could get their office refurbished was in a PFI deal.
THe intial PFI process was dreamed up by the Tories.. but the nightmare was iomplemented by Labour..... and they have had 10 years to realise the scheme is flaky, and there model is frankly barking mad.. its a bit like public sector pensions.... we'will all have to pay them in the long term but the debt doesn't quite exist yet in the real world.
2007-01-08 09:38:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mark J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The MoD is to blame for the armed facilities and for spending the defence budget. that's the political branch of the military, army and Air rigidity, and all the sub-divisions of the forces, alongside with the Royal Marines, and conveys political instructions to the protection force. the military do not basically bypass to Iraq at the same time as they experience like it, the Minister sends the authorities's orders to them. The MoD also enacts authorities coverage in words of how funds is spent - eg the change of the Trident nuclear missile, identifying to purchase the Eurofighter etc, identifying what team stages are mandatory to maintain modern-day deployments etc. A more desirable suitable call will be "Ministry of conflict" - a attractiveness the dep. frequently receives when we are at conflict in the route of domicile.
2016-10-17 00:20:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that the MOD has become politicised and is not concerned with the welfare and safety of service personnel. This dept has always had to face defence cuts but at least did not indulge in conspicuous expenditure for the benefit of its civil servants at the cost of the armed services. What is going on is despicable and reflect the fact that the MOD is nothing more than the very worst of 'His Master's Voice'
2007-01-08 09:45:55 · answer #3 · answered by Beau Brummell 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to remember that you are talking about Britain here. Anything can happen in the most ridiculous and unjust way.
Its a mockery! The whole bloomin country is a whole mockery!
2007-01-08 09:28:54 · answer #4 · answered by jobo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been saying for years that the 'Ministry of Defence' does what it says on the tin.....
It is a Government department that Defends its Self, against all-comers.
See, it does what it says on the tin.
Sash.
2007-01-09 03:58:24 · answer #5 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure the office is ok...have the office seminar in iraq..ok'
plus all wives and guest's
2007-01-08 12:10:12 · answer #6 · answered by raybbies 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good ol' Tony,you can trust him to get it right.
2007-01-08 09:32:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋