There are days when I truly believe we live in a dictatorship.
Today, Our Beloved Leader has been quoted as criticising our military leadership with a comment "There are moments when I wake up and read the newspapers and think, 'I tell you what, you do the fighting and I'll do the talking'."
As a statement of dictatorial arrogance this is extraordinarily outstanding. Cameron has absolutely no experience of military life; he knows nothing of real operational issues in any of the forces and can have no understanding of the logistical demands of warfare. The people he is taking issue with are senior officers in the services who do have such experience, knowledge and understanding. Cameron, it seems, is choosing to ignore their expert advice as it conflicts with his political aims to appear to be a leader of world standing saving us all from nasty dictators, while also getting re-elected through impossible pledges such as reducing costs and taxes, increasing life expectancy, making the trains run on time, and bringing Elvis back to life.
As our elected representative, Cameron has a constitutional duty to take proper account of the advice given to him; if he chooses to ignore such advice, the consequences are entirely his responsibility. If this man is so arrogant as to believe that he knows better than Generals, Admirals and Air Marshalls, he's a better man than I. He's also not too many steps removed from Mubarak, Gadaffi, and Assad, not to mention Stalin, Mao and Hitler; he's adopting a dictatorial stance that cannot be justified and will eventually lead to disaster.
His comments bring us ever closer to Dictatorship.
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