The most distressing thing I can find is that Joe Public sees the military there as 'what the military wants' therefore when it comes to spending, T's & C's, manpower and equipment status, it is seen as 'well they want to be out there don't they'. It's all the big knobs in Whitehall that decide all this lot innit? Why should we fund them when they are having 'fun in the sun'
Unfortunately, there seem to be very few politicians with the balls to stand up and say 'Well, actually GI Joe doesn't want to be out there in the hell hole of Iraq/Afganistan/Dafur etc..., He wants to be back in the country that he's still paying council tax for, in the cr@p accomodation we charge him over the top for. It is us politicians who have decided to deploy the military and demand they fund the 'operation' from their ever decreasing budget while we tax the very people who are 'defending justice and fighting OUR war on terror.'
Funny? Seemed to be no mention of that in Gordo's speech either
