[jambutty]

The daily food allowance for prisoners is a few pence more per day than for servicemen/women. That must say something about the government’s view of our service personnel.

The major reason why we are not speaking either Spanish, French or German is because for the last thousand years or more our soldiers and sailors and in modern times the air force have repelled all invasions.

Walter Raleigh showed the Spanish that quality will always triumph over quantity as the Spanish Armada was sent packing.

Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington put a spoke in Napoleon’s ambitions of world domination.

The British armed forces showed Kaiser Wilhelm II that his European ambitions would not bear fruit.

That jumped up corporal Hitler had similar ambitions but once again it was primarily the British armed forces that stood in his way until the industrial might of the USA and men swayed the balance.

Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri tried his luck with the Falkland Islands and got a bloody nose for his trouble

Since WWII the British servicemen and women have carried out their duties with bravery and distinction wherever they were sent in spite of having to use equipment that left a great deal to be desired.

Their reward for putting their lives on the line has been abysmal with the latest insult being the award of the Veterans’ Lapel Badge and certificate to all surviving ex-servicemen and women. The Lapel Badge, cheaply made in China, has two dents in the face and the certificate didn’t even name the recipient. Please see below. I have amended the generic certificate to what it should have been.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...men-22405.html refers.

At least the government had the decency to declare that henceforth 27th June will be Veterans’ Day. Even then the government has hijacked that day as the day that Gordon Brown becomes the new PM.

So in a nutshell it has always been a case of thanks for putting your life on the line, now push off.