Bring our servicemen home
With its strong representation of ex-servicemen in its membership, and the secret support of no small number of existing servicemen and women, the BNP is foremost in the praise of the training, discipline and efficiency of those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. From the start, of course, we have always qualified this support with the demand that our troops should be withdrawn from both theatres and not left in these ‘foreign fields’ to be killed and maimed in conflicts that are not in Britain’s interests.
Whilst they are there, we will support those critics who have condemned the quality, and quantity, of some of the weaponry that the Government supplies in order to run its globalist wars on the cheap. More helicopters, yes. But cutbacks in training means we do not have sufficient pilots to fly them!
The death rate of our men and women in Afghanistan is now higher than in Iraq (despite the recent death of three RAF servicemen at Basra airport). Some resosible media commentators have pointed out that their risk of death or serious injury runs close to one in nine, which is a higher rate than we faced in the Second World War.
The Government must think so little of our armed forces that it has appointed a Defence Secretary, Des Browne, who shares his time as also being Secretary of State for Scotland. He disputed the death and seriously wounded rate by spreading them amongst the whole of the Nato-ISF forces in Afghanistan, which includes several thousand Germans, Spaniards and Italians whose governments have specified that they must remain in the safe areas. The Germans are not even allowed to go out at night - what would their grandfathers who survived Stalingrad and Normandy say about that! It is the British, Americans and Canadians, plus a small number of highly effective Australian special forces, who are doing all the fighting and the dying.
Des Browne, or rather boss man Gordon Brown, should give defence to someone prepared to look after our soldiers full-time and not try to spin his way out of an unfolding catastrophe for the Army.
Those readers interested in supporting ABEX (Association of British Ex-Servicemen) should e-mail: info@abex.org.uk
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