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Remembrance Sunday. Remember this
When you see Cameron and Clegg on tv laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, saying how much we owe the brave men and women of our armed forces, remember they cut ex-soldiers and war widows pension entitlement in 2011, the now disgraced Dr Fox executing the deed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346527/Liam-Foxs-heartless-pension-cuts-hit-war-widows-retired-servicemen.html
Ministers were branded 'heartless' last night for pension cuts that will cost retired servicemen and war widows hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox was blasted over the coalition Government's controversial decision to link all public-sector pensions and benefits to the Consumer Price Index instead of the higher Retail Price Index.
Changes introduced in the last Budget mean, for instance, that a 27-year-old corporal who lost both his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan would miss out on more than £500,000 over his lifetime
And the 34-year-old wife of a staff sergeant killed in Afghanistan would lose almost £750,000 as a result of the changes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1346527/Liam-Foxs-heartless-pension-cuts-hit-war-widows-retired-servicemen.html
Ministers were branded 'heartless' last night for pension cuts that will cost retired servicemen and war widows hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox was blasted over the coalition Government's controversial decision to link all public-sector pensions and benefits to the Consumer Price Index instead of the higher Retail Price Index.
Changes introduced in the last Budget mean, for instance, that a 27-year-old corporal who lost both his legs in a bomb blast in Afghanistan would miss out on more than £500,000 over his lifetime
And the 34-year-old wife of a staff sergeant killed in Afghanistan would lose almost £750,000 as a result of the changes.
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This is the date of your link
By Ian Drury for the Daily Mail
Updated: 18:32, 12 January 2011
The date of the article is irrelevant. This thread is about remembering and those Tory actions were spiteful and mean whatever date
From April 2015, those who "remarry, cohabit or form a civil partnership" would be entitled to the pension for life, the Ministry of Defence said.
Under current rules some have to surrender their survivor's pension.
Irene Wills, chair of the War Widows' Association, said Prime Minister David Cameron had apologised for the delay in implementing the change.
She said: "Mr Cameron said he is sorry we had to wait so long, but he realised that it was a mistake and he is very pleased to now right that mistake and allow all widows to keep their pensions."
She met Mr Cameron on Saturday to deliver a thank you letter.
On labour's side, Saddam was not voted in by the electorate, his regime was responsible for millions of deaths during iran/iraq war. There wasn't much to say that was nice about the regime. Due to 9/11. in a sense, some significant sections of the sunni religion had declared war on the west (it was a bigger event then pearl habour) . Iraq was a sunni area controlling a majority non-sunni people. I guess the destruction of that non-democratic control of non-sunni Iraq was a valid response to 9/11.
Labour, standing by the USA, was the only valid thing our nation could do. We have to stand shoulder to shoulder with democracy.
the British service men and women who died, did, in effect, help save our democracy, and they are heros. They deserve to be remembered. War is a horrible business but those that fight in it, do not make the horrible decisions, it is us democrats in the privacy of the polling booth that vote for death or life.
9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq
...and the radicalisation of British Moslem's has nothing to do with the Iraq war then - it's just used as an excuse.
You are seriously citing twitter as a reliable source for what you say?
You post some quality nonsense on here sometimes but this is way off the scale
Tony, is that you?
I've lost count of the government policy announcements over the last few days attempting to piggy back on the back of it.
There really should be some sort of window either side or Remembrance where such announcement isn't allowed.
To me it feels like the whole thing has been stolen by politicians and sections of the media for their own ends. The likes of the Mail use poppies and Remembrance as a rod to beat people with.
I'm sick of it, non of these people realy care about the dead.
It's being turned into a weapon used for rule by fear.
No. It really didn't. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.
None of the 9/11 attackers had any connection to Iraq whatsoever. Infact, Saddam's regime was always extremely hostile towards Al Qaeda and it's Wahhabi ideologies.
Some of the deaths in the Iran/Iraq war were a result of the missiles the US supplied to Saddam in 1983. When he used chemical weapons, including sarin, a motion condemning Iraq at the UN Security Council in 1987 was vetoed by the Americans. We stood with them then.