Defence Chiefs Spent More Than £200 Million of Taxpayers’ Money on Travel and Luxury Stays – While Troops Lived in Squalid Conditions
While frontline troops endure squalid, rat-infested accommodation, defence chiefs have blown over £200 million on luxury travel and five-star hotels for senior staff. The Mail has the details.
The MoD spent almost £800 million on hotels and travel between 2018 and 2024 at locations such as the French Alps and Las Vegas.
In sharp contrast, the living conditions of troops in UK Armed Forces accommodation during the same period – some infested with vermin and harmful black mould – led to more than 60,000 complaints.
Meanwhile freedom of information requests obtained by the Mail on Sunday and National Security News revealed a huge leap in costs from £136 million in 2018 to £218 million by 2024 covering hotel accommodation, flights and travel by train and ferry.
The figures revealed numerous MoD personnel stayed in pricey hotels in Central London including the Park Plaza and the Marriott – which can cost up to £400 a night.
Outside of the UK a £1,426 bill was submitted for a four-night stay at the Auberge Saint Hubert Hotel Val D’Isere ski resort in France, a bill of £1,032 was also racked up at the Novotel Sydney Harbour for three nights and one staff member spent seven nights at the Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort which cost £2,439. …
One commanding officer of an infantry battalion based in Bulford told the MoS: “I have soldiers living in really poor-quality housing who are constantly battling to get repairs. I have soldiers on sick leave living in homes which are barely habitable.”
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“Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead,
And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
“He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
The General by Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967)
The Navy has three Admirals ten Vice Admirals and two dozen Rear Admirals. Why?
And not enough ships for them to command.
And they wonder why people will not fight for this country.
Simply substitute for ‘bless’ a four letter word beginning with ‘f’ to get the correct lyrics. ‘They say there’s a troopship just leaving Bombay, bound for old Blighty shore Heavily laden with time expired men, bound for the land they adore There’s many an airman just finishing his time, there’s many a twerp signing on You’ll get no promotion this side of the ocean, so cheer up my lads, bless ’em all Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long and the short and the tall Bless all the sergeants and W. O. ones Bless all the corporals and their blinking sons ‘Cause we’re saying goodbye to them all, as back to their billets they crawl You’ll get no promotion this side of the ocean, so cheer up my lads, bless ’em all They say if you work hard you’ll get better pay We’ve heard all that before Clean up your buttons and polish your boots Scrub out the barrack room floor There’s many a rookie has taken it in, hook line and sinker and all You’ll get no promotion this side of the ocean So cheer up my lads bless ’em all Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the… Read more »
By an odd coincidence this tune has been running through my head for some days now.
Is it coincidence or strategy, that every single thing these people do, is to shaft England ‘s working class.
Deindustrialisation, the farmers, the miners the fishing communities and the armed forces…
Time to fight back.
Figuratively speaking of course.
Can’t think why they’d want to continue the war in Ukraine…
‘Twas ever thus.
I don’t understand why any working class lads and lasses join our military to be abused by the Establishment.
How many sliders do you know who tell stories of how poorly their equipment is compared to the American servicemen’s equipment. How awful their housing is while serving the UK. And yet your gov’t ignores the poor treatment of its soldiers and their families. why?