Every local government FD has tangled with a service like this. It clearly needs more money, but it's very hard to disentangle the actual need from inefficiency. You have to link money to reform, and you'll probably have to drive the reform yourself.
Simon Parker
I think I’m in the annoy everyone camp.
Yes, defence spending needs to rise faster than the proposed timeline suggests but the vision set-out in the Defence Review is unrealistic and avoids hard choices. Plus defence procurement is still a mess and the MOD is often a financial blackhole.
