Des Browne - "I can't explain exactly why we need a deterrent"

Well.........that says it all really doesn't it? Des Browne, flustering and blustering away on the Today programme this morning...............but of course he justified that by saying "we live in a changing and very dangerous world and we cannot guarantee what will be the situation in the future". Well that's OK then. As I have said before, it's like a man building a dam in a time of drought, for fear of flooding, when the forest fires have already started. But, it was ever thus...........