Everything Has A Limit

I doubt it's predominately a question of staff fighting for their jobs. In my experience most voluntary redundancy initiatives in the civil service are, often massively, oversubscribed. This is because after a while one becomes fed up with being made the whipping boy for successive Governments' inability to take rationale, non politically motivated decisions. Viewed historically and in the context of the overall remunaration packages even the highest public sector redundancy payments and pensions probably still put many of us behind what we might have expected had we worked in the private sector.

Having said that there's undoubtedly a lot of waste and the MOD is a good place to start. But it needs a far more forensic and targeted examination than the sort of knee jerk, headline seeking reaction we're used to.