Forces Shame

It’s a National disgrace that the families of our troops left home alone because their spouses serve overseas, are in some cases being fed by charity’s, hampers full of mixed grocery’s capable of feeding a family of four for 3 days at a time are needed by force’s family’s to survive.

Foodbank a charity based in Salisbury claims to have stepped in with food parcels for almost 250 service family’s in the last  3 years,In most of these case’s the breadwinner is or has been in Iran or Afghanistan, I was disgusted to find that some of our Troops on the front line earn less than Traffic Wardens.

You need to be a Lance Corporal before you earn the Princely sum of £20,000, Privates earn as little as £16,000, Knowing this my admiration and respect for the Military increases, this shows what Heroes these guys really are laying their lives on the line for their Country time after time because of a sense of duty, its certainly not  for the money.

Now that this embarrassing  state of affairs has been has been highlighted, what is the Government going to do about it, this cant be allowed to sit on the back burner and then gradually be forgotten, our front line boy’s have enough on their plates in action without worrying what’s on the plates of their loved ones back home.

Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox called it outrageous that billions could be spent bailing out dodgy Banks, and their even dodgier managers, meanwhile our forces are treated  disgracefully, well Liam you have made all the right noises now we will be keeping an eye on you to see what you do about it.