CGB, you are correct, public servants do not make policy, they implement it. If CDS wishes to influence policy he should stand down as an implementer. We all have a voice; at the ballot box, that is not the prerogative solely of socialists.
Langleybaston. The spelling of defence/defense should be coherent. Having referred to CDS which is UK English I should of course have used defence despite it being a more modern spelling in British English than defense. Corbyn, however has only one spelling. As does cenotaph.
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