Hmmm… You might be missing the bigger picture here, rafloo. Sure Bliar is not going to start showing his wonderfully cuddly and fluffy “Nu Labour” care and compassion towards individual service members or units (he’s too gutless to come face-to-face, especially with the casualties of his messianic ventures). That’s not what I meant by nurture.
My words were meant to imply that Bliar (or any other PM) has a duty of care towards armed services manning, morale, equipment, infrastructure and continuity. He has consistently shown his view of the services as “on-tap”, “throw-away” commodities that do not need thought towards, or consideration of, their finest traditions or fighting efficiency and has, hence, consistently shirked this fundamental duty of care. Moreover, in these times of ever increasing international danger, he has shown no sense that the assets he controls are of rapidly appreciating value, being the only consistently reliable bulwark we have, against an almost daily terror threat growth.
Bliar’s sworn enemy, Brown, has an even more dismissive attitude towards the services and, if anything, as allocator of service funding for the past nine miserable years, is even more derelict in his duty than Bliar. The sooner this shower of liars and incompetents is out of office, the better for both the country and the services.