Sailors Selling Stories

It was not enough for our armed forces to be embarrassed by being caught unawares by the Iranians, we had to suffer the Iranian Government out-thinking the UK Government and dominating the public stage. This was, of course, followed by the farcical handling of the situation at home when the MInisters could not decide whether the members of the armed forces should or should not publish their stories, public apolgies in the House in the Commons etc.

Surely this is simple.

All ranks in the forces should not be able to publish their stories for ten years. This will prevent any future prisoners being able to tout their stories around the media like recently-evicted Big Brother housemates.

MPs, of whatever flavour, should resign if guilty of a serious misjudgement.

What are MP's employed for anyway? Most do not seem to actually do anything and generally have very limited knowledge of what they are supposed to be managing: most of the real knowledge (and, hence, the real power) is wielded by the unelected masses in the civil service. If an MP has poor judgement and poor management skills then all the political speak does not change the fact that they are unfit for the post and only disaster will follow.