This Blog is, as things stand, in favour of our nuclear deterrent. What is bang out of order, whatever the motive, is for the Chief of the Defence Staff to criticise the opinions, whatever they are, of an elected politician who is also the elected Leader of the Opposition. To appear on a TV chat show and intervene in a political debate is a monumental breach of constitutional form which separates our armed forces from political power. It is a total and absolute no no.
General Sir Nicholas Horton must now resign. If he does not, Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, must fire him. If he will not, Cameron has a constitutional duty to fire them both. It has nothing to do with nuclear deterrence. It is the way our country is governed. How dare the General not know that.