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NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUEWhats happening with the Reserves? When the announcement was made about establishing defence reserves unit on the Island we didn?t just ?kick off? opposing it we provided thorough analysis of why it was happening. Despite the cacophony of media braying best characterised by Manx Radios interminable broadcasts about ?military-fest? on Douglas promenade last spring we pointed out that the decision by the Ministry of Defence to ?cast its nets in Manx waters? was because of:1) The exodus of service personnel2) The failure of FR2020 the military reserves plan to plug the shortfall in military personnel ironically created when the UK reduced frontline military personnel numbers and made substantial numbers of serving personnel redundant.We analysed stats provided by the MOD to back up our argument.Here are some of our links on this at the time there are loads more if you use the search: (voir le site) it appears from leaked documents published by the Sunday Herald that FR2020 is still not on track and the Conservatives new fall back is to establish cadet forces to provide pools of recruits in deprived communities. The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has hit out about the plan (see below):?TORY plans to create military cadet units in state schools in Scotland’s most deprived areas have been attacked as an attempt to recruit vulnerable children as British Army ‘cannon fodder’. Leaked correspondence obtained by the Sunday Herald shows defence minister Julian Brazier urged the Scottish Government to embrace in-school cadet units. A senior SNP source branded the plan a “cannon fodder scheme” and said it would not go ahead.With the army and reserve forces struggling for recruits, the Tory government has launched a
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