Another 'little war'

This is a blog about collecting, painting and playing with model soldiers, usually nothing more and usually not serious.
I am most certainly not a political animal. I follow with interest what happens both in my country and throughout the rest of the world, from time to time I feel the need to have a rant and this is one of them.
The vote against some form of intervention in Syria in Parliament last night was I feel a game changer. The MPs voted with the views of the people of this country in the back of their minds, they knew that if yet another intervention in a foreign country was sanctified and given the green light that they would not get the votes of their constituents in the next election. Gassing and killing of innocents, oil, stability in that region played a part, but don't kid ourselves keeping their jobs was the primary motive.
The reasons for the people of this country rejecting involvement in Syria are I feel obvious and nothing to do the horrendous situation of the local populous in that area.

1) In 2003 the west's invasion of Iraq was in the main justified by Saddam's development of WMDs. This justification was found to be wrong, politicians  telling lies.

2) Afghanistan, always an un-winnable war (the only person to subdue the area was Alexander the Great who killed 30% of the population to do it, and then it took him five years!) was invaded. They then pulled troops out and invaded Iraq, then went back to Afghanistan while trying to nation build in Iraq and found they couldn't do either. Then intervention in Libya and now Syria, all the while cutting back the armed forces making it impossible for them to do their jobs. The people of this country are sick of politicians standing up and patronizing the men and women in our armed forces saying what a fantastic job they are doing while tying one hand behind their backs!
One small war after another, the United Kingdom is not part of the worlds police, do the Germans, French Japanese etc do all this, no they do not. Let the Arab League start solving the crisis in their own back yard, These oil producing countries have been screwing us into the ground since the seventies and are now crapping themselves because the people they have been screwing (the public in this country, us.) have told them where to go The days of empire are long gone, politicians get real, the public have.

3) The financial crisis. This has been going on since 2007-8 six years of cutbacks and uncertainty and it's along way off being finished, this country will be in the doldrums for at least another eight to ten years. The people of this country are appalled by their reduction in actual income during this time, the uncertainty over jobs and the loss of businesses. Make no mistake the cause of this crisis lies firmly at the door of politicians who allowed the banking sector to continue on making vast profits without regulation of any substantial kind. Over forty years the economic eggs of this nation have all been concentrated in the banking and service sector in London, we make little when compared to other countries and therefore had no flexibility to move in other directions when it all went to hell. These self same bankers and their friends and colleagues were allowed to waltz off into the sunset with large bonuses and payoffs in their back pockets while the rest of us could go hang and the old boys network did nothing to stop them.
Because of this all trust in politicians has gone, we all know that a large percentage of them simply look to the next election and go for the short term policies to get them re elected.
So all in all politicians take heed, the people of this country will not be taken for granted any longer.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
P.S. 'special relationship', does that consist of us jumping when the Americans snap their fingers?
Dave.