The Price of 'Global Britain' .
The MOD is apparently the “Ministry of Debauchery” with overpaid and underworked ‘woke’ officials and senior officers gallivanting around the world to luxury hotels, spending hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers money on jollies, while our brave boys suffer at home. That’s the latest diatribe from the Telegraph, whose ongoing crusade to fight the deep state forces of waste & woke, wherever they may lurk is now firmly fixed on that bastion of leftwing hippy nirvana that is (checks notes), the British Armed Forces… Alternatively there is perhaps more here than meets the eye? According to FOI releases seen by the Telegraph, but which don’t appear to have been hosted on the MOD website yet, the MOD has spent over £300m on hotels and £350m on rail and air travel since 2018 (£650m). This works out at roughly £2.5m per week, covering the approximately 140,000 regular, 30,000 reserve and 60,000 civil servants who make up the MOD. Broken down, each person in defence is spendi...