New Labour - Hate the troops(post 2)

More New Labour fuckwittery.

The RAF took delivery of 8 Chinook helicopters at a cost of £259m. But the special purpose bespoke avionics the MOD in its wisdom had ordered were so dysfunctional they couldn't be used.

Now seven years after delivery and 13 after ordering they still don't work. At a total a cost of c£500m, they are still sitting in a Wiltshire shed. Even though our troops in Afghanistan are desperate for more helicopter support.

The National Audit Office has today issued a damning report, prompting PAC Chairman Lee to describe the whole mess as “one of the most incompetent procurements of all time”.

He went further: this is "a gold standard cock-up".

**Des Brown(with an e) should be sacked.

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