'Look, tell you what, you do the fighting and I'll do the talking'
Talk is cheap except when it's at the expense of listening and the lives of brave men and women are at stake.
And to think I supported him on the basis that he'd save the Armed Forces after a decade of financial flat-lining by Blair and Brown who, despite involving us as the 'other' main player in two resource-draining wars, threw money at every government department other than Defence.