Too small, too bloody small by half!

I have said it before and I will say it again; Des Browne is either a liar or an incompetent, whichever it is he should not be in his job. I wrote here about his inability to get his head around his brief and he seems not to have improved.

There are lots of ministerial jobs where cluelessness need not be a huge disadvantage, Sec of State for Defence is not one of them. He was previously minister in charge of immigration at the Home Office, not a great record of success.

When you make mistakes in Defence people die.

I have no confidence in his commitment to or competence for the role. Please step aside and let someone half decent get on with the job.

Update: 13.19

I have just seen this article about the ex-head of the Navy complaining about underfunding too. How many more senior military people will it need to speak out before something is done.

There are public services which remain inefficient and unreformed but have money thrown at them and yet the armed forces have been slimmed, trimmed and "rightsized" but get an increasingly small proportion of public spending. Ant this despite a huge increase in commitments.

What would people say if the NHS had to double its activity levels while having its budgets cut?