There's a very big difference between considering the possibility, and actually wanting to quit, for which reason I would suggest that the Daily Mirror headline title of this thread needs changing.

Our troops have NOT said they want out, and it's my opinion that 99% of them DON'T.

What they want is an improvement in the way they are regarded, and treated, by the MOD,and the British Public, and they damn well deserve to get it.

The politicians screw up and the poor bloody squaddie cleans up, often without the latest protective gear, such as body armour and bomb hardened vehicles.

Meanwhile his family back home may be living in conditions that would get a private slum landlord jailed.

No wonder many become disillusioned. They signed up to put their lives on the line, and when they come home after a tour of duty during which half the locals have been trying to kill them, they can't even feel safe wearing their uniforms in the streets where they live.

Then we have some pompous, smug, politico, masquerading as the "Veterans Minister" appearing on telly to let us know that "things have improved a great deal".

Tell it to the marines, mate.

It would serve this government right if the whole lot DID resign.

Don T.