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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Speaking in the Parliament yesterday on May 14, the British defence secretary Philip Hammond said that his department has balanced its budget for the first time in a decade, having eliminated the £38 billion deficit it “inherited from the previous [Labour] government” as a result of the government’s savings, including redundancies and procurement changes.
However, in response to Hammond’s remarks, Murphy said that the UK government’s introduced cuts in the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review will cost thousands of jobs, insisting much of the cuts impact is still to make itself felt.
Saying that there was “little detail to support grand claims” by the MoD, he added, “The government has been reckless. Hundreds of workers have lost their jobs.”
Meanwhile, admitting that the cuts could affect future capabilities, Britain’s most senior military commander, General Sir David Richards, said, “It could be that some of the methods that we’d rather hoped or aspired to do in the future are no longer obtainable.”
Hammond also confirmed that there will be no stop to the cuts planned in armed forces personnel due to lack of funds.
Army numbers are expected to drop from 102,000 to 82,000 and the Royal Air Force (RAF) numbers are due to fall from 44,000 to 39,000.
“After two years’ work, the black hole in the defence budget has finally been eliminated and the budget is now in balance, with a small annual reserve built in as a prudent measure to make sure we are not blown off course by unforeseen events,” Hammond further said.
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