Do any of you ever engage with your elected politicians?
Do you ever write to them and express your views and pretty well learned opinions?To be fair you are all pretty well clued up. I've written to my MP on at least 3 occasions and received replies or least acknowledgement, on the simplest of issues. They can engage with you up to a point.
But "Defence" is not a massive issue to Joe Public compared to housing, health and money. They simply expect our Ministers and Service chiefs to run and sort it for them, in a nutshell.
However I detect a growing lack of trust in service chiefs as well as politicians when it comes to defence or the "foreign wars office" as it could be called - I cant put my finger on why I'm saying that, I just somehow feel it, reading the media and talking to people.