| Great news this week courtesy of the Ministry of Defence - free
money! To qualify for up to 1500 of your earth pounds, touchingly naive young Scots just
have to sign up for an induction scheme run by the Territorial Army. The part-time sodjers
who, historically seem to spend most of their time on someone’s else territory, are
offering the chance for Scottish kids to play at sodjering with a view to talking at least
some of them into enlisting and experience the chance of a life time to travel to exotic
destinations where the pissed-off locals are waiting to kill them.
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While it is to be expected that the currently under-strength army
will try anything to lure children into the military life, criticism of the scheme has
come from a totally expected quarter. Eyes front, ’tenshun and pick the logic out
of the musings of Jeff Duncan - Spokesglengarry of the Save our Regiments campaign. Mr
Duncan is quoted in The Scotsman, thusly: "The lure of a few thousand pounds or more
of taxpayers' money to help students out of debt and give them a holiday at the same time
is a nice social concept.
However, this is a desperate attempt by army chiefs to lure those who need the hard
cash to make up numbers in the ranks. |
It's another example
of hypocrisy and mismanagement by the army board - destroy the Scottish Regiments then try
to patch it up with harebrained schemes costing millions." The campaign, great proponents of the perfectly sane view that it's
OK for Scots kids to die horribly on imperialistic jaunts is just fine as long as
they’re wearing an attractive pair of tartan trews, have clearly seen through the
bribe behind the ploy.
This is an obviously very different ploy from the one
practised by the British Army for generations- giving impoverished kids a couple of quid
to join up and march to glory as part of a Scottish-raised regiment.
A practise leading to generations of Scottish Nationalists
tying themselves up in logical contradictions by defending Scotland's historical role in
the British Empire.
Weird. |
