I am a micro business owner struggling to survive the worst downturn in the economy in my 28 years in business.

As such, I was immensely comforted to see our Prime Minister so gainfully employed sticking his nose into another country's affairs when our own nation is in the awful economic mess it is in.

How much nicer to strut about the world stage than to undertake the laborious task of regenerating our economy.

I thought we had seen the last of these senseless foreign interventions with the end of the Blair era.I should have known better when the Tory party is stuffed full of neo-cons like Harper and his mate Liam Fox.

Never mind, let's just fire off another cruise missile at a cost of £300,000. We can always screw a bit more out of small businesses to pay for it!

– Richard Leppington, Federation of Small Businesses, Forest of Dean Branch, New Road, Bream.