The Veterans' Under-Mining department does NOTHING to reduce the number of Veterans in the criminal justice system, NOTHING! http://www.theyworkfor...h&s=speaker:11003#g294507.r0Kevan There are more Veterans in the criminal justice system than there are serving in Afghanistan, in fact there is almost as many in... [show more]

The Veterans' Under-Mining department does NOTHING to reduce the number of Veterans in the criminal justice system, NOTHING!

http://www.theyworkfor...h&s=speaker:11003#g294507.r0Kevan

There are more Veterans in the criminal justice system than there are serving in Afghanistan, in fact there is almost as many in jail than in Afghanistan!

http://www.timesonline...6848238.ece [show less]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYidBpnZn8I (+)
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This video ends with the message, "you are actually getting paid to get better, so earn your wages!". ^^ Must you give an arm and a leg in service of your country before you are entitled to adequate rest and recuperation?... [show more]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYidBpnZn8I (+)
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This video ends with the message, "you are actually getting paid to get better, so earn your wages!".

^^ Must you give an arm and a leg in service of your country before you are entitled to adequate rest and recuperation?

http://www.theyworkfor...-24a.59WS.0
"I am pleased to announce that a feasibility study will be undertaken to look at the possibility of establishing a Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre in around 10 years' time, looking at how the whole issue of rehabilitation should be developed in 21st century terms."

^^ Correct me if I am wrong, but according to the Gregorian calendar we are already in the 21st century are we not? And what's with a "feasibility study" to look at the "possibility"? and if that study goes ahead and says in 2020 that it is possible, then in what stardate is it likely to happen? Yup, our Governminted are committed all right, committed to planning ahead in order to avoid doing what they should be doing now! I bet if T minus 11 years was a golf course our golf loving undermining Minister against Veterans would be on it in a shank.

"An external benefactor has agreed to sponsor this feasibility work. This continues a long and distinguished tradition of charitable involvement in the care of injured service personnel, including in this context the work of the Headley Court Trust, Help for Heroes, SSAFA, BLESMA and Brain Injury and Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT), to name only a few."

^^ A long and distinguished tradition of Government failing on the Covenant.

More charity = more government failure. [show less]

Kevan Jones, the Under-Secretary of State and Minister "for" Veterans undermined Forces Widows by talking out of time Michael Mates Private Members' Bill in order to prevent a vote. In doing so Kevan Jones has openly demonstrated he is not the Minister "for", but rather a Minister "against"... [show more]

Kevan Jones, the Under-Secretary of State and Minister "for" Veterans undermined Forces Widows by talking out of time Michael Mates Private Members' Bill in order to prevent a vote. In doing so Kevan Jones has openly demonstrated he is not the Minister "for", but rather a Minister "against" Veterans.

The Bill:
http://services.parlia...atment.html

The Injustice:
http://www.epolitix.co...-injustice/

Criticism:
http://www.teletext.co...icised.aspx

"The Government offers three arguments against the change:
• that it would be retrospective;
• that it would cost too much;
• that it would be unfair."
http://ukdf.blogspot.c...-of_05.html

I think it's unfair not to award a retrospective increase because it's wrong to consider one life given in service less valuable than another. [show less]