You Know Times Are Tough When The Pencil Pushers Start Losing Their Jobs

Armed Forces To Axe An Extra 7,000 Penpushers In Shock Civilan Jobs Cull -- Daily Mail

The Ministry of Defence will axe a further 7,000 penpushers in a desperate bid to bring its spiralling budget under control, it was revealed today.

The shock cull of civilian jobs was announced in a letter from the cash-strapped department's top bureaucrat Ursula Brennan.

Staff were already reeling from Defence Secretary Liam Fox's pledge to cut 25,000 civil service posts by 2015 in a bid to help the MoD grapple with a £38billion deficit in its finances.

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My Comment: First it was the soldiers, now it is the penpushers, tomorrow the Generals, and next week .... the political bosses.

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