The Decline Of The U.K. Military

20,000 British troops resigned last year fed up with poor pay, time away from families and inadequate accommodation Photo: GETTY

Armed Forces Face Mass Walk Out Over Poor Funding,
Report Warns -- The Telegraph

The Armed Forces face a mass walk out with under-funding leading to a "major crisis" in defence, an influential report backed by former military chiefs warns.

They will soon be "paralysed" by the growing number of resignations and will take a decade to recover, the UK National Defence Association paper says.

A “huge burden” has been placed on the Forces with more than 12,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan that has led to an immense strain on both troops and equipment.

All three major political parties must now unite to back the "woefully under-funded" Forces whose budget urgently needs to be increased from the current £34 billion to £50 billion over the next three years, it states.

"The national interest requires the full-hearted engagement of Government and Opposition to rehabilitate our Armed Forces and repair our defences. Now is no longer the time for party politics," said Winston Churchill, the UKNDA's president and grandson of the wartime leader.

He warned that the Forces were "in crisis" with funding the lowest since the Thirties when "inadequate defence provision paved the way directly to world war".

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My Comment: For the Labor Party that has ruled Britain for the past decade, the U.K. military was always on the bottom of their list to support. Inadequate funds, absence of mission focus, a total absence of providing moral and political support for the military, political interference in military operations, and (what I think is the moral killer) permitting more assistance to Islamic militants living in England than providing assistance to injured U.K. soldiers .... these factors are killing the military.

20,000 have left ..... I am sure that there will be more. If the Labor win the next election, this decline will be a flood.