Hate to be the lone dissenter, but I don't believe Mr Joyce has spelt anything out or told anyone the way it is. He makes a couple of vague references to the Afghanistan elections, pumps up the rhetoric for the Armed Forces but he is hardly burning any bridges here. As for...
Most important of all, we must make it clear to every serviceman and woman, their families and the British public that we give their well-being the highest political priority
...just what is a "political priority?" Is it one that gives the Forces the right equipment to do the job in hand, or is the one that gets my political cronies re-elected next time around.
Sorry, but ex-squaddie or not, this is just more hot air from a politican who knows which side his bread is buttered on. What does his resignation as Number 4 memo writer to the Chief Parliamentary Notetaker change - not a damn thing.