It's depressing, seriously depressing.
One more Harrier for Afghanistan and it is announced by the SoS.
Head of the Army (utterly, utterly unimpressive) gives a very poor interview on the BBC and admits he does not know the casualty numbers.
B list celeb gets rolled in a jet powered car and recieves 'hundreds' of floral arrangements and 'thousands' of cards and messages. Air Ambulance donations top £130,000 as a result (that is a good thing). Our servicemen and women who have been injured get shoved onto any old ward and are completely ignored by the media and the public.
We have just been told that all internal air travel now has to be signed off at Gp Capt level and overseas air travel by a 1 star.
Afghanistan is about 50 times bigger than Northern Ireland yet how many troops are in NI compared to Afghanistan?
I have heard many times the phrase that ' we need a different kind of leader in peacetime than we do in war time'. Boy, are we paying for that now.
We have seriously lost the plot.