Bob Ainsworth: Woolies has closed and M&S don’t stock it
According to the Guardian Bob Ainsworth says soldiers’ kit
‘does not come from Marks and Spencer’
and that Britain will only send more troops to Afghanistan if the government can ensure that they will be properly equipped. I’d like to bet that M&S could procure equipment quicker, cheaper and better than the MOD!
In the interview with BBC Radio 4′s Today programme he also said that it was difficult for the Ministry of Defence to supply it and that
“We cannot send people out there ahead of vital equipment,”
You have to ask what his reason was for sending troops out previously when they didn’t have vital equipment.
Ainsworth will be addressing the remnants of the Labour Conference this morning on Defence. As usual Labour’s priorities see this being scheduled at the arse-end of the conference when everyone is already going home and the Sun has set giving a gloomy cast to the faithful.
UK will only send more troops to Afghanistan ‘if properly equipped’
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