After watching the very annoying Question Time last night I have concluded that many people seem to be focused on what ISIL want us to do and what will happen after any assault on them and the loss of lives etc. This is all the language of fear. We must not worry about what ISIL want and how they are playing us, we must destroy them in the territory they hold and we must round up and imprison or deport anyone involved with them. There is no negotiation to be had, there is no easy fix. There is no chance of coming out of this without innocent lives being lost, maybe even here in Britain.
We must form a coalition of forces with the interested parties and get the job done. If we can avoid putting our own troops on the ground then that will be a major result. After all it is not Europe who stands to lose the most if ISIL remain effective in the region.
Time to stop poncing around with what ifs and get the job done with all means necessary.

I suspect next week's Spending Review has not made any provision for a land assault on ISIS. However, we have flogged some of MOD's London estate to the Arabs to turn into a 5* hotel, sacked soldiers so we can sell off their barracks and mothballed a lot of stuff that flew or floated. Austerity? You ain't seen nothing yet.

The poor paying for the mistakes (cough cough) of the rich?

The responsibility of a government is to represent all of its people.

Wealth creators are obviously very important but its vital that the above sentence is remembered and while I'm of the right I feel it's a sentiment that some on my side of politics can forget or diminish.

I see you right there. Certain amount of snobbishness and/or disdain for the less well off on this site sometimes.

Poverty is relative. All of us are poor to someone I'm sure. Too much self righteous bleeding heart whining on this site.