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Revolving Doors – Again

| May 24, 2011 | 10 Comments

The dust has only just settled on the controversy over former Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, joining Agusta Westland but we have another. Retired Vice-Admiral  Tim Laurence, 56, has become a non-executive director of the consultancy Capita Symonds. Commenting on the appointment he said I am delighted to be joining the board of [...]

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When is the piss taking going to stop?

| May 17, 2011 | 45 Comments

It makes me sick when politicians bang on about the military covenant but allow the revolving door between the defence industry and government employees to swish around faster than ever. Announced today is news that the widely reported ‘most useless Secretary of State for Defence’  in the history of useless Secretary’s of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon, supposedly the [...]

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