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The Brown/Mugabe connection
Posted by Mark 27 August 2007
Two stories in the paper today ought to have been printed side-by-side.
The first appeared on the front page and told us about serious manpower shortages in Britain's armed forces that are putting lives at risk.
Apparently this is because those shortages are in specialist areas such as helicopter pilots, medics and bomb disposal officers.
The shortages are across the three services, RAF, navy and army as higher-paid civilian jobs lure personnel away from roles that become every more demanding because of earlier departures.
The more who leave, the more pressure there is on those who remain and the more incentive they have to also leave.
Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, we read on the inside pages that their air force is also critically short of pilots and ground staff to maintain their aircraft.
There is just one Chinese-made MiG 21 and four Russian-made MiG 23s still airworthy.
There is also one Hawk trainer jet still airworthy but the last pilot able to fly it has left.
The dire straights of Zimbabwe's economy and military sanctions are to blame for the position that Mugabe has put Zimbabwe into, but who is to blame for the plight of Britain's armed forces?
Brown has been away for many years we are suffering from severe overstretch due to our involvement in two wars, and a serious financial squeeze, yet nothing is being done about it.
Brown and Mugabe are recklessly negligent about their duties to their countries.
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