OUTRAGE AT MoD ATTEMPT TO CUT WOUNDED SOLDIERS’ AWARDS

OUTRAGE AT MoD ATTEMPT TO CUT WOUNDED SOLDIERS’ AWARDS

SNP Westminster leader and Defence spokesperson Angus Robertson MP has hit out at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over an attempt at the Court of Appeal to significantly reduce the compensation awarded to two injured soldiers.

Mr Robertson has written to the Defence Secretary demanding to know how much the MoD has spent on legal advice and representation in their attempt to challenge the compensation payments.

Mr Robertson said:

“The Ministry of Defence are behaving shamefully in attempting to cut these compensation payments. These two soldiers were wounded while fighting for their country, and now the UK Government is fighting them in court – it is an outrageous and exceptionally crass way to treat these men.

“It is frankly offensive that when our servicemen and women are risking their lives engaged in fierce fighting in Afghanistan , sustaining significant casualties in the process, the MoD are attempting to slash the compensation levels awarded to those wounded in battle.

“Soldiers, sailors and airforce personnel have already volunteered to do a difficult, dangerous and stressful job often in hostile territory thousands of miles from home. To be met with such a response from the MoD when seeking compensation for wounds received in service is unacceptable.

“The MoD should think again about how their action will be viewed by the service community in the present circumstances.”

The hypocrite and the thug: sounds like politics to me...but its not!

I have a number on rules that I try to follow in life. Amongst others, I Don't eat yellow snow, don't kiss women who have stubble on their faces, don't cross the motorway on foot during rush hour, don't borrow money from friends and don't hit women whatever they do. These rules have served me well throughout my life and I think I have lead a reasonable existence so far as a result.

I was disgusted to see TV footage over the last couple of days of a police sergeant (without his ID number displayed on his shoulder as he should've done) at the G20 protests in London the other week who hit a woman half his size first with a backhand worthy of Nadal and then with his telescopic kosh hit her another two times to the legs. The man is a thug, a cad, a coward and is representative of much that is wrong in our society (well...other than the stuff Gordon Brown is representative of...and there might be some cross over!!!). I thought that this situation couldn't be any more depraved and sickening.

That is until the woman who was the victim, the anti-capitalist protester who was there to make a point that money was the root of all evil in the world decided that this was her golden ticket to the big time. Social parasite Max Clifford was close at hand and has helped her sell her story for £50k (as reported in the papers). She is also preparing a compensation case against the police (which will undoubtedly run into the £millions) because she is claiming all kinds of anxieties and distress.

The thing that really upsets me is that the thug and the hypocrite only got together because a group of twenty wanted to get together for a bit of dinner. As a result of this much hyped dinner party I'm a bit more angry and a bit more disappointed in my fellow man and woman, neither of whom I would ever dream of hitting or suing.