THE announcement that £9billion is to be invested in refurbishing military housing for British servicemen and women sounds like a welcome move, but it came only days after it was revealed that the government has probably already spent over £15billion on homes and hotels for asylum seekers. This is against a backdrop of an estimated 7,500 homeless ex-forces personnel, more than 400 empty barracks with thousands of potential beds, and plans to make more of these available to asylum seekers.
Our own CAF deserve available cash more than alien migrant benefit seekers.
Stephanie Shapiro: To fix the Armed Forces, military families must be supported
