The bases likely thought “nobody is going to be stupid enough to break into an RAF base”, and were complacent. Like you, I hope this is a wake-up call.
Regardless, a group that operates in cells like this to harm UK defence capabilities was always going to be punished.
That would be a concern, the default should be that folk want to break in and damage. It’s our military readiness and first line of defence. Russians regularly run sorties close to UK space which we need to scramble jets for. They attacked 2 former Russian citizens on UK soil with Novachok and civilian(s) died. There was absolutely no grounds for complacency before the Ukraine situation and there certainly isn’t now. Especially as we supply them and know we could become a target.
It definitely feels like someone should be fired for this, unless they raised it, requested funding and was denied, but even then, whoever was in charge of base security should know vulnerabilities and staff accordingly. If staffed adequately and personnel failed in their duty, this is disciplinary territory.
Punishing anti war protesters because our armed forces cannot handle amped up hippies is weird and surreal. It looks insecure/incompetent at best, authoritarian at worse.
The bases likely thought “nobody is going to be stupid enough to break into an RAF base”, and were complacent. Like you, I hope this is a wake-up call.
Regardless, a group that operates in cells like this to harm UK defence capabilities was always going to be punished.
That would be a concern, the default should be that folk want to break in and damage. It’s our military readiness and first line of defence. Russians regularly run sorties close to UK space which we need to scramble jets for. They attacked 2 former Russian citizens on UK soil with Novachok and civilian(s) died. There was absolutely no grounds for complacency before the Ukraine situation and there certainly isn’t now. Especially as we supply them and know we could become a target.
It definitely feels like someone should be fired for this, unless they raised it, requested funding and was denied, but even then, whoever was in charge of base security should know vulnerabilities and staff accordingly. If staffed adequately and personnel failed in their duty, this is disciplinary territory.
Punishing anti war protesters because our armed forces cannot handle amped up hippies is weird and surreal. It looks insecure/incompetent at best, authoritarian at worse.
Reminds me of Michael Fagan. A dude who broke into Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom while drunk as part of a bet