Penny pinchers deny forces personnel proper protection

The scandal of inadequate armour for the Landrovers used in Iraq and Afghanistan has now received much publicity thanks in large part to the exposés of the blog EU Referendum. Channel 4 News last evening returned to the similar scandal of lack of fire-fighting foam protection in the British Hercules aircraft, promised to have been rectified some time past. The video of the news item is available from the page linked here. As it is money that is clearly involved in this matter is it at all surprising that it seems to be three Scottish cabinet ministers involved in this shameful delay? The three are of course: Chancellor Gordon Brown, Former Defence Secretary Dr John Reid and the present holder of that post AND ex-Treasury Secretary Desmond Browne.