Cuts again? It's becoming one of the New Labour certainties - it might be revenge from all those nerds selling Socialist Worker that I used to abuse at University who always got the OTC and UAS kicked out of Freshers' Fair.
Leaks are becoming part of life, but there are 2 sides to this - 1) it informs us all even though it might not come to fruition, but 2) it is massively destabilising since there are 40 odd thousand in the RAF fretting about yet more instability, not to mention the threat of 6000 troops cut from the Army and 5 boats from the RN...
I know Mr Brown goes on about 'Prudence' but she doesn't sound like a very exciting girl and I presume that as he likes playing on the World Stage he would still like someone to join the military. If you look at the US they are fretting about money, but they're still spening it like water as they at least appreciate their military.
Some time ago I got to host some MPs, the Cons chap was pleasant and appreciated what I did for a living, the Lib Dem wore a bad suit and the Labourites were smug and took the line that I was too thick to do any job and couldn't be as great as them.
My meandering point is that we are committed to a war which is not some 100-hr affair and yet all we see is our ability to wage war being constantly eroded. It doesn't help when people talk about leaving here as we joined to make a difference all through training we have been ignoring the quitters. If it's not right, stop complaining and start talking about what we need so we can arm our senior officers with the information they need.