I'm not trying to say that Tories are good, Labour is bad. What I am trying to say is that right here, right now, things aren't good! The original thread was about our current military ability and our PM's determination to 'do something' about Iran and not about the state of our economy. If you listen to the people at the coal face who are actually trying to do the work, we simply can not do any more than we are doing at the moment. The level of support from our politaical lords and masters is woefully inadequate, the cut backs unsustainable and the amount of red tape put in place by this current government is suffocating.
On another note, if you want to talk about hysteria, maybe Sgt Steve Roberts' widow might have something to say on that given that the body armour issued to her husband was withdrawn shortly before he was shot dead. Or maybe you'd like to discuss the armoured land rovers denied our troops? Or the essential equipment that continues to slip to the right causing us to operate outdated and aging equipment way past its sell by date? Hysteria? Xenophobia? Anti-American? No, simply Pro the poor sods out there doing us proud with zero support from Downing Street.