HM Forces - Olympic Accomodation

[Aidi]

HM Forces Accomodation for those backfilling the complete cockup left by G4S


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A picture paints a 1000 words.

Nice to know we (HM Forces) are regarded in such high esteem

[moonmanflyer]

yeh lovely mate, what a **** up that all is, and you guys get lumped with all the crap, and i bet you dont get a bonus either

[Jamin_00]

Just to be clear, thats a ****ing multi storey car park??

What a complete **** take. So where G4 guards gonna be staying?

G4 are getting fined millions for there **** up so why cant a small % of that be used for accommodation???

[Aidi]

Yep Multi Storey Carpark.... Makes you wonder if they have to put coins/notes in the meter when they goto work?

[Zeeflyboy]

Well, at least I'm willing to bet they've slept in less hospitable places before....

Ridiculous though, G4S should be paying to accommodate them

Big respect to you guys in the forces, you do a great job in the face of massive mistreatment in general in my opinion.

[Lynx.1677]

Haha, that looks plush compared to our old barracks! It is a sad state of affairs though.

[dave j]

G4S are a total joke everything they do ****s up the cant even run prisons properly thats why they are being taken off them

[swale]

wow that really is a joke!

[speedy jon]

That is utterly disgraceful!!
You guys have been drafted in to sort out g4s's **** up and this is how you get treated. I'm appalled

[jwatts007]

You watch all this get swept under the carpet and forgotten and G4s walk away with there millions, I bet this was the plan from the word go......

[dani_r]

Absolutely ridiculous. G4S should be ashamed. But in actual fact, they won't give a toss.

[johnsandywhite]

Nice 5 star Hotel accomodation. We had to live in tents along with scorpions (not the motor type), mossies, snakes etc while in the JUNGLE up Malaya. Better weather though.

[speedy jon]

Have you thought about sending a photo to the press? I think they could help kick up a fuss and highlight to the public at how our armed forces are being treated.

[Swashbuckler]

I do hold the forces in high esteem but logistically speaking, where else? They can handle 2 weeks in a multi storey carpark, it must be less hazardous than having a campbed on sand with material over your head in Helmand. It's not right that G4 have been allowed to **** this up. It's not right that they even were allowed to bid given their track record. No doubt when you get to the top you will find an Eton oldboy that personally knows or is even friends with government ministers. The revolution needs to come soon as we are rapidly disappearing up our own arses, which is easy as they are quite cavernous where we keep getting raped in them.

Incidentally did you know that they discovered a massive Lithium deposit in Afghanistan a couple of years back. Britain and pretty much the rest of Europe have virtually no Lithium, it will all have to be bought/imported. Given that it is more than likely the next big energy source, and maybe I'm just a cynic but is that why we are there? I have never seen a good explanation as to why we are sacrificing our soldiers and killing the inhabitants.

[scallybert]

[QUOTE=Swashbuckler;879764][...]I have never seen a good explanation as to why we are sacrificing our soldiers and killing the inhabitants.[/QUOTE]
I found this [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472062/"]Charlie Wilson's War (2007) - IMDb[/URL] entertaining and informative in some respects.

My guess is that the prospect of a 'failed state' Afghanistan, run by radicalised fundamentalists, financing terrorist campaigns by selling heroin to the West; is something that we really, really don't want. [And most of the inhabitants probably don't want, either.]

Kind of like a worse version of Libya financed by opium poppies rather than oil.

Yet another very tricky situation.

As regards the original topic: I expect HM Gov to compensate the troops for undue hardship, and to claim it back from G4S.