The Increasing Disconnect Between Politicians, the Public Purse and their Political Ambitions
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad, is a quote widely attributed to Euripides —but although the attribution is incorrect, the accuracy of this ancient saying is as valid as ever. Who else but a madman would cut a government’s defence budget and then demand that that same military force engage in ever-more wildly increasing foreign military exercises? The increasing disconnect between Westminster politicians, how much taxpayers’ money they have, and their…