MoD - obtains almost half the COST of the Iraq War and Afghanistan  selling Army land - barracks-hospitals.

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£2.2 billion Army boot sale funds Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Ian Drury

[Daily Mail-Political Reporter -July 7-2007]

The Ministry of Defence has sold off historic barracks and land worth more than £2.2 billion to fund the spiralling cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Figures show ministers have met about half the cost of the conflicts by selling Armed Forces assets, including accommodation, airstrips, sports fields. military hospitals and firing ranges.

The true cost of the invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein and driving the Taliban out of Afghanistan [Well!- not exactly] has never officially been released, but the respected Iraq Analysis Group has estimated that the MoD has spent in the region of £5 billion to fund the wars.

[There are also of course the loss up to July 8the 2007 of 212 lives of British  servicemen and women and no doubt over 6000 wounded some disabled for life and refused treatment in a Military Hospital which should be their right in a contract between the Government and members of the Armed Forces.]

Critics claim the money raked in by the treasury should be spent on better housing and equipment for troops.

Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that since 1998, Defence Estates -the MoD organisation responsible for managing land and buildings -sold assets totalling £2.2 billion including 12,446 hectares of land for housing and business developments.

THE GREAT SELL-OFF

Examples of land and barracks sold by the MoD

Royal Military Academy

Woolwich

South -East London

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Chelsea Barracks

West London

£900,000,000

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Duke of York Barracks

West London

£94,000,000

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Army Medals Office

Droitwich Spa, Worcs.

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RAF West Raynham (Airfield and Control Towers)-West Raynham, near Fakenham, Norwich

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Princess Mary's RAF Hospital and Halton Tennis centre, RAF Halton, Bucks.

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Anzio Barracks, Leek, Staffs

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Oakington Barracks Longstanton, Cambs.

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Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffs.

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HMS Daedalus 9training establishment for Fleet Air Arm) -Lee-On -Solent, near Portsmouth, Hampshire.

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Atomoc Weapons Establishment Cardiff (maufacturing components for nuclear programme)-Cardiff, South Wales.

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Deysbrook Barracks (former home of Army BomB Disposal Unit)-West Derby, Liverpool.

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Purfleet, Rifle Ranges, Purfleet, Kent

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Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell, Notts.

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Parts of RAF Greenham Common, Newbury, Berks.

[Yet the previous Government had failed to up-grade the disgusting living accommodation of Service families and retain Military Hospitals. We expect better things now we have a new type of man at the head of Government]

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Chelsea barracks has been sold to housing developers for a reported £900,000,000

Nearly 150 years of military tradition will come to an end when the prime location between Sloane Square and the Thames is vacated next year.

The Duke of York Barracks in Chelsea fetched

£94,000,000

Thousands of married quarters up and down the country have been snapped up by developers , as have former aerodromes.

The Second World War airfield at RAF Hendon is being transformed into one of the country's biggest residential estates.

the figures were uncovered by Lord Trefgarne, a former Conservative Defence Minister under Margaret Thatcher. he said:

'I keep noticing from snippets in the Press that famous and historic buildings in which our Armed Forces have been based for centuries were being sold to property developers.I have to say I am staggered by the findings.'

Nick Harvey, the Liberal Defence Spokesman, said:

'At a time when thousands  of military personnel atre living in sub-standard accommodation, it is shameful for assets to be sold off to pay for

THE ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAQ.'

Alan Simpson, a senior Labour backbencher, said:

'If surplus assets are to be sold off it has to be on the basis that it improves the quantity of support that is given to troops,'

The Mail has repeatedly highlighted how thousands of service personnel and their families have been forced to live in squalor, enduring ageing barracks with leaking roofs, broken boilers, cracked windows and damp. Some accommodation is so run-down it has been condemned.

Meanwhile, soldiers with horrific battlefield injuries are treated on NHS wards because the GOVERNMENT closed specialist military hospitals

TO SAVE MONEY

And troops have been forced to buy their own items of kit such as sleeping bags, boots and rucksacks because they felt the ARMY ISSUE was INADEQUATE

Experts predict the COST of the IRAQ WAR to the British Taxpayer will exceed £1billion

 £1,000,000,000

THIS YEAR ALONE

-for the first time since the [illegal] invasion in 2003

[We now hear that greater numbers of the Armed Forces have decided to not to extend their service with the consequence that thousands of experienced troops are no longer able to fill the growing gap of unfilled places. it is the only way that our service personnel can show their great anger because their House of Commons occupied in the main by lazy -unprincipled time servers neglected to look after the FIRST RESPONSIBILITY OF A GOVERNMENT the conditions of employment and supply to their brave fighting services.]

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