316. That is the total number of British military service deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq following the New Year’s Day death of yet another soldier in Afghanistan — all killed because the criminal Labour/Tory regime jointly lied to go to war in a conflict which had nothing to do with this country.

The war has cost the British taxpayer £13.2 billion, according to the most recent figures released by the Ministry of Defence.

The wounded total is even higher than the death rate. Official figures (only available for the period after 01 January 2006) claim that 3,320 British personnel have been wounded, 1,691 of whom required aeromedical evacuation.

Former Army medic Shaun Rusling, chairman of the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association, has dismissed the official figures as covering up the full extent of the injuries suffered.

“The public ought to know what troops are enduring, and the price they are paying. It looks like a big chunk of the real casualty figures are missing,” Mr Rusling said.

Major Charles Heyman, editor of Armed Forces of the UK, has also questioned the MoD’s official figures. “What we’re hearing from the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan suggests not just a slightly higher figure but a much higher figure,” he said.

It is well known that Tony Blair was the chief pathological liar who pushed through the obscene pack of lies ‘justifying’ the war with Iraq, and who leaped in to ‘help’ the American invasion of Afghanistan.

Blair was the one who facilitated the Bush/Cheney war by providing Washington with credibility, diplomatic cover, and the pretence of a ‘coalition.’

By joining these wars, Blair enflamed the Muslim World against Britain and aroused violent reactions amongst the Muslim population in this country. The real reason for terrorism in Britain is thus mass Third World immigration inflamed by a twisted, lying foreign policy.

Many people still remember the September 2002 Blair’s “Intelligence dossier” outlining the claims over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, including the claim that Iraq could deploy chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes.

The document was singled out for praise by US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his February 5 address to the United Nations Security Council, where he presented Washington’s own intelligence claiming Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction and alleged efforts to thwart UN inspectors.

The 19-page document was presented as a product of up-to-the-minute British intelligence gathering. It said it was compiled from intelligence material “and other sources” and was an “up-to-date intelligence-led dossier.” But it was nothing of the sort, and was actually plagiarised from just three articles, one of which was written by an American graduate student, all of which were months and even years old.

So sloppy was the plagiarism that typographic mistakes in the original articles were repeated, indicating that they were scanned in or cut and pasted from the Internet.

Blair was not alone in this criminal deception. Gordon Brown was also an active participant in this litany of lies — but less well known is the role the Tories played in this treasonous charade.

Astonishingly, the Tories wanted to go to war even quicker than Blair. Then Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith actually accused the Blair government of not going to war fast enough.

Mr Duncan Smith accused Mr Blair of allowing the argument in favour of a pre-emptive strike against Iraq “to drift over the summer.”

He said: “It is now time for the prime minister to explain to the British people what he already knows — that Iraq is a clear and growing danger to Britain.”

“I support a pre-emptive offensive against Iraq because I believe Britain is on Saddam Hussein’s list of targets for a missile attack,” The Tory leader told the Sunday Times in 2002.

Conservative chairman Theresa May also urged Mr Blair to “clearly set out the case.”He knows Iraq poses a clear and growing danger to Britain,” she told the BBC’s Breakfast with Frost programme. “The prime minister would have her party’s support if he committed Britain to military action,” she said.

All of these claims were lies. And now British people have to pay.

Never forget those who have died for the Labour and Tory lies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Avenge their deaths by ensuring that the war criminals responsible are brought to book.

* A BNP government would seek an understanding with the Muslim world, and not conflict. The basis of this understanding would be that they agree to keep their surplus populations to themselves, and the British government would agree to never again interfere in the internal affairs of their nations.

It is a pact which is the only way to guarantee peace.