My buttocks tense up in fury when I hear about our government's plans to "celebrate' the BEGINNING of World War 1.

I don't mind the money spent so much (who could legitimately complain if they were planning to commemorate the END of World War 1?) more the message it sends when we are cutting money elsewhere.

World War 1 is possibly the biggest crime in human civilisation.

The death count is possibly beyond measure as additional to the senseless deaths on the battlefield it was a major vector in the spread of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and led to the loss of life and resources in The Great Depression, World War 2 and the Cold War.

Indeed much of the troubles we live with today stem can be traced back to World War 1.

Spending money while cutting aid to the elderly and the disabled on celebrating the beginning of all that pain is a miss step of almost comic (though it's far too distasteful) proportions.