Taking the Armed Forces for Granted

One of my biggest disappointments about modern politics is the continued failure to learn the lessons of history.

Back in the 1970s Wilson and Callaghan took the Armed Forces for granted, underpaying them substantially and then using them to literally do their dirty work when the Nations infrastructure started to collapse because of the chaos caused by strikes.

So here we are again inthe year 2007 and the Labour Government is doing the same thing, overstretching our armed forces, using them to correct the mess they have created in Iraq and under equipping them for their job. Now we read about the shocking state of some of the accommodation we are expecting our servicemen to live in.

This is yet another reason for Blair to hang his head in shame.