Someone has a remarkable ability to misunderstand basic language – or to twist them out of all proportion…
The head of a controversial private outsourcing firm accused of presiding over a collapse in Army recruitment has attempted to blame a lack of war for its failure to sign up new soldiers.
The number of people attending army interviews and selection tests to be regular soldiers has fallen by 35 per cent since Capita took charge of hiring new recruits from the Ministry of Defence in March.
Chutzpah doesn’t even come close to describing this nincompoop’s response. What the flying fuck have we been doing for the past twelve years or so if it hasn’t been poking about in wars around the world? Has this twat not heard about Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya (not to mention the near miss that was Syria – I suppose Pindar would have welcomed that intervention as it would have helped recruiting via Crapita, presumably)? None of which should have been any of our damned business anyway – they were not and should not have been our wars.
Also, the point of having a robust volunteer army, navy and air force is so that you don’t have to fight wars.
“We have the disadvantage that we actually have no wars on,” Paul Pindar told the Public Accounts Committee.
Tell that to the boys and girls being shot at and blown up by IEDs in Afghanistan you cretin.
Mind you, I’m biased – I’ve had dealings with this company in my professional life…
This chap doesn’t fancy having a crack at running the Co-op Bank does he? Seems to have his finger fully on the pulse, just like the last chap. 😉