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January 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Last updated at 1:19 PM on 21st January 2012
The Ministry of Defence has paid out £75 million to civil servants made redundant over the past three months.
The 2,500 staff were laid off during the autumn as part of the Government’s cuts programme received pay-offs averaging £30,000, according to MoD figures.
The MoD said the reductions to the civilian workforce were necessary to help tackle the ‘black hole’ in the defence budget.
David Cameron has been criticised for the huge pay-offs to civilians especially since service personnel are losing their jobs
A spokesman pointed out that, on average, civilian staff received ‘considerably less’ than military personnel, who are also losing thousands of jobs as a result of the cuts programme.
‘Where a sergeant receives an average payoff of around £65,000, a civilian receives around £30,000 on average,’ the spokesman said.
‘The MoD civilian workforce is reducing by around 33 per cent compared to a reduction of 17.5 per cent in military manpower.’
The news comes as the MoD is preparing to axe 2,900 soldiers which would reduce Army numbers to their lowest since the Crimean War.
The redundancies will see it shrink to about 97,000 compared with 101,300 in April last year.
In total 4,200 servicemen will lose their jobs with 1,000 posts axed from the RAF and 300 by the Royal Navy.
It is thought the Gurkhas will bear the brunt of the latest cuts, with 400 being made redundant – the equivalent of an entire battalion.
Recent changes to the 3,500-strong brigade mean the Nepalese soldiers can now serve a maximum of 22 years, instead of 15.
The Gurkhas will bear the brunt of the latest cuts to service personnell with 400 staff going
According to defence sources it is thought the regiment is now over-manned with older soldiers.
The pay-outs to civilians has angered shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy.
‘David Cameron is culling the Army in their thousands while spending millions on civil service pay-offs,’ he said.
‘He needs to get his priorities
straight. People worried about the impact of the cuts on families and
the front line will be angry at this news.’
Under the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) – which was unveiled in 2010 – the Armed Forces must lose 17,000 service personnel by 2015, 7,000 from the Army and 5,000 from the RAF and Navy.
The government has said they have no choice but to go ahead with the cuts.
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Cheaper to pay them dole money than proper wages eh Dave!!!
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This article is alarmist dross..
Most redundancies are made through voluntary release schemes in both the Civil and Armed services, both get payouts in-line with service earned. (Unfortunately some loose their jobs due to centre closures)
This is happening not because the Civil servants are incompetent in their jobs but because the government (at Westminster) allowed programmes to proceed underfunded from the start; affording the only outcome to be an overspend.
Does the general public really think that private sector will provide better value for money? I think not, evidenced by the £600m spent in replacement consultants during the last year, with profits going to private share holders and not circulating back into the economy.
We are on a dark path allowing the uninformed and uneducated private sector share holding government to decimate our civil service, have we forgotten why these institutions were created? To provide services at cost!
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That’s peanuts to the millions the MOD spends on a contract with a private company to cut down and burn hundreds, if not thousands over the last 7 years, of perfectly healthy trees on Salisbury Plain. There are always large pyres smouldering for days on the Plain. Hundreds of hectares of small mammal cover is ripped out and burned for no logical reason that any sensible person could understand..
The funding for this activity comes, apparently, from our taxes; twice. Once in money from the Treasury to the MOD budget and again from EU grants that the MOD claims for the payment of this contract.
The MOD should be held to account for this waste of money and the slash and burn that goes on under the guise of Preservation and Conservation.
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I am not sure how this works, but when you pay out huge amounts of redundancy, the tax man sticks the 40% rate of tax on your redundancy payment. He then holds on to it for as long as he can while you chase him. Is this a government money maker?
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I hope all new public sector contracts of employment mirror those generally available in the private sector. Especially as regards hours of work, holidays, sick pay and redundancy entitlement.
– George, Brighton, 21/1/2012 14:55
Do you mean earning subistence wages in dead-end, insecure jobs (what the bosses want for us all), or running a company and a large chunk of the economy into the ground and expecting the taxpayer to pick up the pieces (what the bosses do themselves) ?
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Shock horror. Staff made redundant with a compensation package. Just like Woolworths, HMV and RBS. Except the levels of compensation are so much lower.
Why not halt ALL Old Age Pensions now as they represent such small amounts of money that they require state benefits for survival.
Where has the £140 Billion gone that was taken from Public Sector Pension Pots last month.
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The trouble is that most you voted in the current ConDem administration on the basis of a load of c**p about cuts to the Civil and Public Service. What did you expect to happen? The redundancies are costing more than they are saving. But what do you expect Civil Servants to do? – If you were faced with the choice of carrying on for another 5-6 years with no chance of promotion and your pay freezed indefinitely, or a five or six-figure redundancy payout, what would you choose?
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Why should public sector workers receive any more than the statutory redundancy payment? As a tax payer, I never authorised enhanced redundancy packages for these people and I can see no good reason for doing so.
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Judging by the Tory government of the early 90s,they will be re employed very soon, as consultants.
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75 million divided by 2500, is only 30k…, about a years capitation salary. Good value if it saves taxpayers the wages and pension of 2500 civil servants. What I would realy like to see though is a returtne to the same proportion of MOD civilians to serving personal that we had 30 years ago. In that time the numbers of service personal have halved and MOD civilians/contracors quadupaled.
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