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Worst injured soldier ever to survive is awarded less than RAF typist with a sore thumb
See the following in the Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=478178&in_page_id=1770



See also the following:'Wounded troops are treated as just figures'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/14/nrtroop114.xml


Hamish



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Please follow the links above and show your feelings to all.
Let this injustice be corrected.

Phredd ( In Arduis Fidelis)


The red type is to show anger and disgust.

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I know what you are saying Pete but this OAP has sent a donation to help this brave boy and help pay the extortionate fees of his lawyer.

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Post Defence Minister 
I watched Channel 4 news last night - but not for long. I was so sickened by what I heard a Defence Minister say in reponse to a question from the presenter, I had to turn it off ::

Presenter: Don't you think that a situation like this is totally unjust; a situation whereby a soldier has survived horrendous injuries which will affect him and his family for the rest of his life, and is only awarded £152,150 ?

Minister : It is because we have provided the necessary equipment for our troops to do their job properly - armour, suitable vehicles etc., that these men are surviving these injuries. We are now looking into the whole system of payment for injuries received.

This started me trembling and screaming "Answer the 'kin question for crying out loud- you ignorant bastard!"

How utterly nauseating - this Minister should be sacked immediately, and told in no uncertain terms that he should be completely ashamed of himself. He is a mindless, thoughtless moron. Notice Des Browne did not have the guts to appear.


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Kentsboro wrote:
I watched Channel 4 news last night - but not for long. I was so sickened by what I heard a Defence Minister say in reponse to a question from the presenter, I had to turn it off ::

Presenter: Don't you think that a situation like this is totally unjust; a situation whereby a soldier has survived horrendous injuries which will affect him and his family for the rest of his life, and is only awarded £152,150 ?

Minister : It is because we have provided the necessary equipment for our troops to do their job properly - armour, suitable vehicles etc., that these men are surviving these injuries. We are now looking into the whole system of payment for injuries received.

This started me trembling and screaming "Answer the 'kin question for crying out loud- you ignorant bastard!"

How utterly nauseating - this Minister should be sacked immediately, and told in no uncertain terms that he should be completely ashamed of himself. He is a mindless, thoughtless moron. Notice Des Browne did not have the guts to appear.


It was truly unbelievable, Tony.

Like most of the Ministers in the MoD, and their civil service masters, He had absolutely no integrity of thought or deed. I watched that interview and could not believe what I was hearing.

Des Browne couldn't get to the interview - his MoD-supplied Sat Nav failed to work.

Barry


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ITS COME AS A REAL SURPRISE TO ME TO FIND THAT PEOPLE SURVIVE THEIR INJURIES BECAUSE OF SUPERIOR EQUIPMENT IS THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE WARSHIPS THAT DON'T SINK,PLANES THAT DON'T CRASH,AND TANKS THAT DON'T EXPLODE,WELL I THINK I CAN SEE THAT POOR SQUADDIE BEING PUT ON A CHARGE FOR FAILING TO PUT ON THE EQUIPMENT THAT WOULD HAVE RENDERED HIM BOMBPROOF,BY HECK SOMEONE'S IN THE CRAP,OBVIOUSLY A HEALTH AND SAFETY ASSESMENT FAILURE BIG STYLE HERE,FANCY THEM NAUGHTY 'KIN RAGHEADS, NOT KNOWING THIS TO.WOT WE NEED HERE IS A BAND OF HAPPY 'KIN CLAPPY,TREE HUGGIN,LENTIL EATING,FLIP FLOP WEARING ,PC., LIBERAL'KIN TOSSERS,WITH A NAME I CAN'T PRONOUNCE,SAFE GUARDING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OUR TROOPS,NATURALLY OUR SERVICE PEOPLE,WHO DEFEND FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OUR COUNTRY HAVE BEEN GAGGED FROM BLOWING THE WHISTLE,YESTERDAY I GAVE AN EXAMPLE OF 'JUSTICE',TODAY WE HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF GUESS WOT,YIP DEMOCRACY Exclamation ,THIS JUST HAPPENS TO BACK UP THOSE ENTRUSTED TO 'PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE SYSTEM',BACK TO THAT OLE CHESTNUT.THIS IS THE TRUE PURPOSE OF A GOV SPOKESPERSON,TO SPOUT A LOAD OF CRAP ,AT THE END OF WHICH ,YOU KNOW NOTHING MORE THAN AT THE START,'CEPT WE KNOW HIS CHAIR IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN YOURS OR MINE.READ THIS THRU AND THINKS,AM I TALKING A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS OR WHAT?

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Post Received today..... 
Just rec'd by e-mail.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "10 Downing Street" <number10@petitions.pm.gov.uk>
To: "e-petition signatories" <number10@petitions.pm.gov.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:58 AM
Subject: Government response to petition 'Forces-Hospitals'


You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "Bring back
dedicated military hospitals and provide adequate facilities (non NHS) for
members of the Armed Forces who are injured or disabled in the course of
their duties."

The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view
it here:

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page12961.asp

Prime Minister's Office

Petition information - http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Forces-Hospitals/

If you would like to opt out of receiving further mail on this or any other petitions you signed,
please email [url]optout@petitions.pm.gov.uk[/url]
============================================

I'm not sure than any of you will be impressed at the response?


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    Jock
    I have just received the same e-mail.
    Did not expect any different from them.
    Phredd (In Arduis Fidelis)


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Post Channel 4 interview 
I believe this to be the Minister referred to above - he most certainly looks familiar.




I think it's Bob Ainsworth, and if anybody has the urge to write to him - as I do - then "fill yer boots" as they say. He can be found by just typing his name into Google.

Tony


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HAD A GOOD LOOK AT PHOTO,CAN SEE AT LEAST TWO CHINS,DODGY TEETH,AND A LACK OF CLARITY ,THE MAIN GIVE AWAY THO IS THE HAIRLINE,THIS CONCEALS THE SCAR WHERE THE BRAIN WAS RE-INSTALLED BACKWARDS TO ENABLE HIM TO TALK OUT HIS A-HOLE WITHOUT FLINCHING.THIS INJURED SQUADDIE ,IS STRICTLY SPEAKING OFF OUR RADAR,BUT AS AN INDIVUDUAL NOT MY CONSCIENCE,AND FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF MCDANGLE,SENT A DONATION OFF TO ;PPFF .PO BOX 95.ALDERSHOT.HANTS.GU11-9GL. CHEQUE PAYABLE 'PROTECT OUT PROTECTORS FIGHTING FUND', THIS COULD BE ANYONE OF US WHO HAS SERVED,OR IS SERVING,OUR UNION HAS NO FEE'S,MEMBERSHIP IS LIMITED,IT WOULD SEEM THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE TO STICK UP FOR THE RIGHTS OF PROCESS ,WHEN IT CONCERNS INDIVIDUALS OF FOREIGN NATIONALITY OF ILL WILL TO OUR SOCIETY,THIS LAD IS ONE OF OUR OWN,AND DESERVES BETTER,ID LIKE TO THINK A SILENT MAJORITY SPEAKS FOR HIM AS A INDIVIDUAL,AND FOR OTHERS WHO SUFFER INJURY IN THE SERVICE OF THIS COUNTRY.

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Post We will lose savings and home, says soldier's mother 
See the following in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2160263,00.html

Hamish

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Post Revealed: the toll of maimed British troops 
See the following:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=THJ4EKDV3DAVTQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/10/14/nmaim114.xml

Hamish

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Post Health and well being of service veterans 
It is interesting to note the contrast between the medical treatment of Australian service personnel and British service personnel. I go to a gym for Australian veterans at a Melbourne hospital and train mainly with the Vietnam veterans. They have travel expenses to the hospital paid by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) and can take a taxi to the gym at the DVA’s expense. If we park at the hospital parking fees are waived for veterans. The majority of Australian veterans have gold medical cards which means they incur no medical expenses and can have private specialist medical fees paid for by the DVA or operations in private hospitals especially if there are waiting lists in public hospitals. There is free psychiatric care for the Vietnam veterans and for their children. Some only have white medical cards which cover only specific conditions deemed to be have caused by active service. The attitude seems to be by the assessing authorities is that if your physical ability is likely to have been effected at all by active service all medical costs will be paid by the government and in many cases your pension will be increased due to your impaired health. Those of us who go to the gym are monitored at all times by physiotherapists and physical educators and have personal assessments every 3 months and training programmes worked out. Being a British veteran I can’t claim travel expenses but am very grateful for the use of their gym and I am of course grateful for a pension received from the DVA when I turned 60 because I was an allied veteran with service in Borneo. My German wife Uschi also receives a pension from the DVA because of my service. This effetively means I get the benefits of an age pension at 60 rather than 65 which means I have lower utility bills and and the cost of car registration is lower. Australian service personnel probably have better benefits than you would have in the UK with top BUPA private cover.

Hamish

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