QUOTE "Many did not agree with the invasion of Iraq, and see massive mission creep in Afghanistan (John Read "no bullets will be fired"??). Their own communities are fractured, the money thrown at the NHS and schools is having little impact, and the MoD wants more money. Pull back from these foreign wars and stop trying to be a world power, they argue."
And they'd be absolutely right... the world's economies are stagnating, so we can expect to see even less tax revenue, leading to further cuts in military and public service spending. Unemployment in the UK is set to reach 2m by the end of the year and we're not over the worst of it by a long chalk. Our overseas commitments are therefore bound to be called into question.