Critically manpower in the army, surface fleet size (inc. small craft for our waters), proper military martime surv. aircaft and generally an overreliance in all services on small number of high cost / high complexity assets eg F35. It’s about numbers we can’t afford with Trident
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Als antwoord op @KevinPascoe @CNDuk
You can’t ‘buy’ manpower - scrapping Trident won’t help that. Small fleet size, not sure I see your point - we’ve got both Rivers (B1 & B2). Poseidon’s on order, and has been budgeted alongside Trident, Sentinel and A400M can also perform MPA role.
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And you can buy manpower - we always have as has every other country. First stop Crapita recruiting for you - they are useless - then a long term programme of in house recruitment and training. This stupid outsourcing is destroying our forces - SAR, training, firefighting, tanker
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Als antwoord op @KevinPascoe @CNDuk
If people aren’t joining, you can’t just buy people to sign up. That’s the crux of the current recruiting issue. The only surefire way to increase numbers is conscription. I completely agree with you in regards to Captia, housing and outsourcing.
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You improve the package to recruit people - salaries, training to help in post service life and addressing one of the biggest scandals in the UK of post-service care. This Tory govt says all the right words, but does next to nothing for our veterans - Labour will address that
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Als antwoord op @KevinPascoe @CNDuk
I completely agree that we need to sort out recruitment and veterans. I understand that Labour is committed to sorting this out, but the current party (especially Shadow Cabinet ministers) history of anti-defence and anti-military comments is worrying, to say the least
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A lot of the anti-defence stuff are quotes out of context by Tory media mischief makers (but there have been some mistakes). Generally the left values our conventional armed forces, and their vital role within the 3 Ds in making a safer world - alongside development and diplomacy
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Als antwoord op @KevinPascoe @CNDuk
https://youtu.be/iabxArzFN_8 https://youtu.be/hHE9xf7A7d4 There’s some video evidence, and that’s just from Corbyn.
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And you criticised me for using biased sources. CND are paragons of virtue compared with these right wing head bangers. Back to the edited videos, JC may have taken personal views in the past, but now leader of Europe’s largest political party and we collectively develop policy
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Als antwoord op @KevinPascoe @CNDuk
None of this is edited, it’s simply video clips put together. It’s not like someone’s edited something he said - he said those things. I understand he needs to put those views behind him, but at the end of the day, the PM atoll has to make very important descions on defence
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Seriously Labour Party policy is now a democratic process not one person. That’s unlike Blair’s days that got us into unnecessary wars and saw thousands of our loyal troops killed and maimed for his vanity project. Labour has changed for the better
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