We all know that Labour have continually failed the military over the past decade. But now Gordon wants them to go even further, despite number of wars in which they are currently engaged.

He really isn't Flash Gordon [except with our cash on bureaucracy and encouraging state dependence, of course] but Slash Gordon - slashing our armed forces which are already under severe financial constraints brought around by the past decade of Labour (mis)government. This slash "would reduce the RN's capabilities to just one small scale operation and that is it." We already have several on the go, though, don't we? Liam Fox is right when he says that:

So even despite taxing us 50% more than a decade ago, Brown has wasted so much of our money that he deems a slash in the military budget as necessary to keep up his pouring of money into various black holes parts of the state apparatus.

Your party has been in power for a decade. There's a problem. So what do you do? Blame the guys before you!

This is getting extremely weak. When Labour have been in power for a decade, they cannot then blame the Tories whenever anything goes wrong. Whether or not the "legacy" that Major's government left was poor military housing standards really doesn't matter very much. Browne himself has had more than a year, and a Labour government - financially controlled by the man who is now Fuhrer - have had more than ten years in which to put it right. And they haven't. They have completely and utterly failed to do anything about it. It is not possible for them to blame the Tories any more.

The only people to blame for the disgraceful accommodation in which you house the military are Labour ministers. They have taken Britain to war so many times in the last decade, and underfunded the armed forces at the same time so much so that they don't even have the equipment to fight wars any more! Labour have failed the armed forces in every single way, under-funding, under prioritising, and over-mobilising.

And now they are going to throw even more of the MoD's money away in a pointless exercise. The "council tax rebate" of £140 which Des Browne announced isn't at council tax rebate at all. it has bugger-all to do with the councils, but comes directly from the MoD's coffers. It's not a council tax rebate at all, but an extra 140 quid. Which, I am sure, most members of the military would far prefer that £2.5m to be used to supply them properly whilst in the field. After all, what does £140 mean if you're dead cos you ran out of ammo?

And as Liam Fox, Shadow Defence Secretary, points out, the partial "rebate" they're getting doesn't even compare favourably with that given to criminals in prison!
There is no doubt that, in the end, there is just one person who can take most of the blame for this: our Glorious Leader, Gordon Brown.

Source: The Times