Being of a sheepish nature, I've never thought much of "the Welsh thing" but I fear that Dai Jones the Cymru aviator, from his self-admitted family background of barrack room lawyers, has overstated his case. (Whatever his case turns out to be...)
The British military is already unable to carry out its primary task - the defence of the United Kingdom against real agressors - because the blatant liar and his party have committed our military to a fight that exhausted the not inconsiderable resources of the Red Army (and their famous Welsh male voice choir.) The reason that British people look askance at soldiers, sailors and airmen in the street, is simply that military chaps are confused with the liar and his master's rotten beligerence.
Meanwhile, military chaps throughout the land know without a shadow of doubt that their own unit is the utter dogs bollocks and everyone else is a shower of useless w@nkers. They always have, and always will believe this to be a self-evident truth. Far be it for me to suggest that the French have any military aptitude whatsoever, but they coined a good expression to describe this attitude - Esprit de Corps. Long may it live and long may military men the world over argue amongst themselves. Why, even in the RAF, it is an established tradition.
