Today I got on a train and sat down for 40 minutes. I then got off the train and handed a man at the COP an envelope. I then turned on my heels and sat on a another train for another 40 minutes.
While I was doing this I completely missed the British Strategic Defence Review which is basically the budget for the UK armed forces. However from what I can gather the armed forces got off lightly.
The two big bits of news are firstly that UK forces will be withdrawing their tank divisions from Germany. The hope is that they will relocated to bases in the UK giving the government the ability to pay for those bases. Secondly that the Navy's Harrier attack jets will be phased out leaving the UK without the ability to launch air attacks from the sea. This is really not news because since about 2003 the Navy has been unable to launch air attacks from the sea because all their Harriers have been lent to the RAF in Afghanistan.
In better news for the armed forces the Special Forces and the Secret Intelligence Services (SIS/MI6) have actually seen their budgets increased with the SIS boosted by the news that they will now longer have to fund the BBC's World Service but will still retain full editorial control.
Tomorrow (20/10) we're awaiting the Comprehensive Spending Review to find out how badly the civilian population are going to get raped to pay for all this.
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