at the end of the day the Military has very very little significance to the great british public. They will bask in the glory when they go into rapid high tempo operations but get bored when the military is tied down in ops like Iraq and Afghanistan. Its not helped by succesive governments attitudes to the forces seeing the defence of the nation as a low priority. End of cold war "no" submarine threat therefore cut Nimrod spending and spending on Navy for a peace dividend.
This government will fall when house prices do and the economey falls apart. The next govt will have to slash public spending to sort out the economic mess and so the defence budget will be cut don't hope a change of govenrment will sort out the ills of UKDF just expect more of the same.
Until the armed forces of the UK get a kicking on an operation nothing will change.