Is the UK prepared for WW3?

Can you please explain how cutting government and ministerial pay by 75% would attractive the necessary talent to make the ministry of defence more productive?

I know it's a crazy thought but you might attract people with an interest in serving the public rather than toffs failing upwards with as much loot in their pockets as possible

Known liar and general klutz Grant Shapps is our defence secretary.

Grant ****ing Shapps, that's what we're getting for our talent money right now.

Can you please explain how cutting government and ministerial pay by 75% would attractive the necessary talent to make the ministry of defence more productive?

Do the same to the MOD - and reward MOD personnel in post by payment by results (to include efficiency in procurement and production) Not a payment for sitting on the chairs.

There are a great number of people out there in the UK without degrees, without Phd's or mates in high places who have huge amounts of talent, experience and common sense who can surely cut through current bureaucracy and biased advice and get jobs done with greater efficiency for far less money? There are great numbers of retired (& serving) men and women who understand the needs of our defence. I am sure they would be only too willing to offer to do that job for far less money with better results.

When we run out of tax payers money to pay the wages and pensions of all council and Government funded employees then we might need to reconsider.

Do the same to the MOD - and reward MOD personnel in post by payment by results (to include efficiency in procurement and production) Not a payment for sitting on the chairs.

There are a great number of people out there in the UK without degrees, without Phd's or mates in high places who have huge amounts of talent, experience and common sense who can surely cut through current bureaucracy and biased advice and get jobs done with greater efficiency for far less money? There are great numbers of retired (& serving) men and women who understand the needs of our defence. I am sure they would be only too willing to offer to do that job for far less money with better results.

When we run out of tax payers money to pay the wages and pensions of all council and Government funded employees then we might need to reconsider.

Do the same to the MOD - and reward MOD personnel in post by payment by results (to include efficiency in procurement and production) Not a payment for sitting on the chairs.

There are a great number of people out there in the UK without degrees, without Phd's or mates in high places who have huge amounts of talent, experience and common sense who can surely cut through current bureaucracy and biased advice and get jobs done with greater efficiency for far less money? There are great numbers of retired (& serving) men and women who understand the needs of our defence. I am sure they would be only too willing to offer to do that job for far less money with better results.

When we run out of tax payers money to pay the wages and pensions of all council and Government funded employees then we might need to reconsider.

There are a great number of people out there in the UK without degrees, without Phd's or mates in high places who have huge amounts of talent, experience and common sense who can surely cut through current bureaucracy and biased advice and get jobs done with greater efficiency for far less money? There are great numbers of retired (& serving) men and women who understand the needs of our defence. I am sure they would be only too willing to offer to do that job for far less money with better results.

You are advocating introducing a bonus scheme for those who work for the MoD or other branches of the civil service? That is quite a radical shakeup and will go down very well among civil servants. How do you propose to pay for it?

Maybe you should let the Conservatives know. Afterall, they've made no genuine attempt at civil service reform over the last 14 years. Maybe you can suggest they update their decrepit IT systems while you are at it.



You appear to be wholly ignorant of civil service recruitment procedures. It is an organisation that is both good on meritocratic recruitment and good on internal promotion. There is currently nothing stopping these talented university of life individuals or those with previous military experience from joining the MoD or other branches of the civil service.

What is a substantial barrier is civil service salaries are lower than what such a person could obtain working from a private company. Cutting their salaries will not bring in more talented individuals. If you don't understand why, read a introductory book on economics.

I believe there may be some left wing bias in your article? The maintenance of a grip on power in any organisation continues by recruiting managers with correct attitudes and outlook at the expense of ability. I am led to believe that all civil servants should be unbiased (but sadly that seems to be an incorrect assertion also?) The productivity levels amongst some civil servants is reportedly woeful. That is a great disservice to the many thousands of civil servants (with limited income) who work long hours and who prop up failing management. For the record - an introductory book on economics would likely still support the outdated virtues of mass immigration creating wealth in the economy to support more and more old people (the pension 'parasites')

The responses by some of our (top) civil servants and politicians leaves a lot to be desired. So it is sensible to suggest they should be replaced or be paid by results.

At the expense of having a pessimistic outlook WW3 is an insidious malaise of creeping intensity. We have been naive in the extreme with officials in public office - we are subject to people in public office who are trained to acknowledge fashionable ideas cited in role profiles. The UK is in massively in debt. We have huge numbers of people who do not work by choice and this will be our downfall. Thus we are beholden to private business to create public services - and as a result many individuals are extremely vulnerable to blackmail and corruption. Other countries who want power sow division and dissent by using their willing participants. We already have the fracture and break up of the UK (by devolution) We still have no idea who is in the UK. We fail to vet persons admitted to or leaving the UK. The Irish demands merely facilitate even more pathways for organised crime, weapons and violence. We have many communities who have no allegiance to a Western way of life. Non Western countries fund violent marches and civil disorder in the UK (with insufficient police numbers to prevent or control the intimidation)
We suffer the sabotage and infiltration of our ancient IT systems (with failed procurements by so called experts to 'modernise' IT systems wasting many millions) The world has already been subjected to bio warfare with a raft of respiratory viruses. Foreign students have access to our Universities sensitive data, our ex service personnel are training communist armed forces; asylum seekers work in the security services and betray the UK. You couldn't make it up.

You are advocating introducing a bonus scheme for those who work for the MoD or other branches of the civil service? That is quite a radical shakeup and will go down very well among civil servants. How do you propose to pay for it?

Maybe you should let the Conservatives know. Afterall, they've made no genuine attempt at civil service reform over the last 14 years. Maybe you can suggest they update their decrepit IT systems while you are at it.



You appear to be wholly ignorant of civil service recruitment procedures. It is an organisation that is both good on meritocratic recruitment and good on internal promotion. There is currently nothing stopping these talented university of life individuals or those with previous military experience from joining the MoD or other branches of the civil service.

What is a substantial barrier is civil service salaries are lower than what such a person could obtain working from a private company. Cutting their salaries will not bring in more talented individuals. If you don't understand why, read a introductory book on economics.

I'm not entirely sold on the meritocratic recruitment aspect. I know somebody who works in the civil service and was recently promoted (unsure exactly what their job title is) and he said that in his original interview he was asked almost nothing about his previous experience and yet two questions essentially related to how he'd be 'inclusive'. While it's essentially a working as a team question (phrased in a politically biased manner from what i remember), most organisations would put a greater emphasis on prior experience.

He also openly admits that he does not have to push himself and was promoted despite having a large amount of dead time between whatever he does (i.e. the demands placed upon employees are not sufficient even if the quality of the outcome was clearly good enough).

Is the UK prepared for if Russia goes to war with NATO? This is because, I just read an article in the telegraph by Sir Patrick Sanders, that conscription would have to be introduced if a war did happen.

No.

The British army isn't diverse enough.