What is worse is that he is using a distortion of the operational case to try and influence wider home-based decisions on Defence funding. I don't think I have ever seen anything more distasteful. Jacko is correct, where are the cries of indignation - is it the fact that it was in the Sunday Express, or is it the influence of his Protector? CDS should speak out or he is guilty by association. If not, it didn't take long for his Purple crown to slip did it?