Some excellent Lizards have already posted links to the stories which made me sick to my stomach, in the papers to day.

For those who haven’t seen the worst one, here’s the link:

British soldiers banned from using live bullets to save money

From that link:
‘British soldiers are being forced to train with blanks rather than live rounds to save money.

The entire Territorial Army (TA) and a number of nonfrontline regular army units will be affected by the ban on the use of real bullets in personal weapons, according to defence sources.’

And while some dyed-in-the-wool NuLab tribalists still think and say that everything is done for the Army, see this, from the link above:

‘Although the government claims the full cost of operations abroad is funded separately from the defence budget, the Treasury reduces the figure by about half to take into account costs that are not incurred in the UK because the troops are in Afghanistan.’
(My emphasis)

Frankly, I’m sick with anger.