No, its not April 1st. 
The Ministry of Defence is actually going to pay some actors £5million to go round military bases performing little self-penned dramas and sketches aimed at teaching "tolerance", "equality" and "diversity" to British servicemen and women. Instead of spending the cash a better kit for our hard-pressed troops, the MoD is going to give it to a troupe of luvvies!
Shadow secretary for defence, Dr Liam Fox, said: "With soldiers dying from lack of basic kit, spending £5m on a programme like this is outrageous. For the sake of our brave service members and their families, I think the MoD needs to seriously reconsider its priorities."
Clive Fairweather, former deputy commander of the SAS, said: "I have never heard of anything as ridiculous in my life, and I say this as someone who delivers training on equality and diversity, as well as being a former soldier. They could have had me for £50 a week. Equality and diversity training is important, but the rest of us can manage with an overhead projector"
I suppose we've come to expect this sort of ridiculous political correctness from the nuLabour clowns who are dragging us all down into the slough of multi-culturalism.
The Ministry of Defence is actually going to pay some actors £5million to go round military bases performing little self-penned dramas and sketches aimed at teaching "tolerance", "equality" and "diversity" to British servicemen and women. Instead of spending the cash a better kit for our hard-pressed troops, the MoD is going to give it to a troupe of luvvies!Shadow secretary for defence, Dr Liam Fox, said: "With soldiers dying from lack of basic kit, spending £5m on a programme like this is outrageous. For the sake of our brave service members and their families, I think the MoD needs to seriously reconsider its priorities."
Clive Fairweather, former deputy commander of the SAS, said: "I have never heard of anything as ridiculous in my life, and I say this as someone who delivers training on equality and diversity, as well as being a former soldier. They could have had me for £50 a week. Equality and diversity training is important, but the rest of us can manage with an overhead projector"
Link> The Scotsman: MoD to spend £5m on actors
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