Betrayal

Castrated

The Telegraph reveals that Treasury's plans for the British Army after 2015.  According to one quoted defence source:

When Britain withdraws from Afghanistan in 2015, the Treasury will be knocking on the door of the MoD with a very big hammer – there will be a substantial reduction in troops numbers leaving an Army with a strength of circa 80,000. We will be moving into an era of sharing capabilities with our European allies. The days of being able to do everything are long gone. 

This is the lowest since the reign of George IV–and then we had a navy capable of seeing off any possible combination of forces.  What galls me more is that the Coalition thinks that cooing over how it's time for us to give up our independence to our European masters "allies" is supposed to make things better rather than confirming this treason for what it is.

Welcome to Britain:  Three main political parties, none of whom back their own country.

Stop thinking

The Daily Mash looks at the question of Mr Nicholas Clegg and how to get him to stop having ideas.  I particularly like this quote:

But now cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell is to conduct a detailed review of the deputy prime minister's private office in a bid to establish whose job it is to hit him as hard as they can in the face with a shovel whenever he tries to call a press conference.

Britain bares her throat to the knife

For the scrap yard before she's even built.

The Coalition announces defence cuts or, to be more accurate, something scrawled on a napkin during a mad-hatter's tea party that they're fobbing off as defence cuts.

The jewel in the crown of this shopping list of madness?  Deep cuts to the Royal Navy that will reduce fighting strength to 19 surface warships, building an aircraft carrier that will never fly jets and will almost certainly be sold off before it sees active service, and a second carrier that won't have any British jets until 2020 and won't be fully operational until 2036.  Marvelous defence strategy there:  Ask our enemies to hold off attacking us for 26 years and after that, be a dear and try not to start a war while our only strike carrier is in for a refit.  Thanks, awfully.  Not that it matters because without Harriers (they're for the immediate chop) we don't have any carrier capacity now anyway.

That's only the tip of the iceberg with the only shred of good news is that the MOD losing 25,000 civilian staff.  Mind you, given that the MOD has more civilians than soldiers, this is a very, very tiny shred.

Meanwhile, the massive, useless bureaucracy at the NHS and the handouts to foreign dictators remains sacrosanct. And as for the idea of dumping all those damn rat holes "green" projects or stop annually sending tens of billions of pounds off to Brussels?  Not a chance, mate.  The way in which the Coalition treats national defence is nothing short of criminal.  Unfortunately, our only alternative is Labour, so it's a choice between criminal and treasonous.

I've said it before and it's worth repeating, I realise that an austerity programme is necessary these days, but the purpose of government is first and foremost defence of the realm.  Everything else is secondary and expendable.  If it was up to me, every MP would be followed around by a monkey who would bash him with a club every time he forgets this.

By the bye, That sensation you're now feeling is what it's like to be stark naked in the face of a cold eastern wind.

Update: They've gone barking mad.