A lot of it is his fault though. A large proportion of his cabinet appointments were simply ludicrous and done out of sheer cowardice. Swella, etc. (View Post)

Conscripts would be a net negative as they can't really contribute much in the short time they are in and take up a lot of NCO time with discipline, training and welfare. Unless we are going to … (View Post)

That makes a kind of sense as Sunak definitely wouldn't want to elevate a leadership contender like Bingo Wings to SecDef and give them that platform. Imagine if, somehow, the SMO all works out … (View Post)

Remember when Shappsie was Home Secretary for a week. That was funny. He might be a bit less frit about forcing the Army to make hard decisions. Fat Legolas was in a state of total pie and chips indu… (View Post)

They don't really have to have a clue about defence. They need to be decisive, pragmatic and capable of leading a vast, high spending ministry. (View Post)