May To Outlaw Legal 'witch-Hunt' Against Troops Serving In Conflict

[naomi24]

//The PM tells Sky News troops should know "the Government is on their side" as she moves to protect them from "vexatious claims"....."Our troops go out and put their lives on the line in order to defend us," she told Sky News Sunrise.

"This is about the Government saying to our troops, 'You have our backing, we are on your side, we're behind you in what you do.'"

In a move warmly welcomed by veterans' families and MPs, Mrs May will pledge that the European Convention of Human Rights will no longer apply to troops serving in battle.//

http://news.sky.com/story/may-to-outlaw-legal-witch-hunt-against-troops-serving-in-conflict-10604798

Good for her!

[TWR]

No action should be taken against any Service man / woman in combat, these Claim, claim Lawyers need to be taken to task.

[Baldric]

Common sense at last!

[jim360]

It's great that bogus claims are to be dismissed but I'm curious how you decide if they are bogus or not without investigating. It's a bit of a Catch-22 situation. I don't think though that there is any contradiction between backing our troops and holding them to high standards by investigating possible wrongdoing. Hopefully May's announcement marks the correct compromise.

[youngmafbog]

It's simple jim

They should not be tried in a civil court. A military Court should be used and as I understand it that will remain.

What has happened is a travesty and only served to line the pockets of some ambulance chasing anti British lefties.

[TWR]

It's a pity they do not think about the service man / Woman that's facing the Enemy wheather they are going to shoot or not, bloody idiots.

[naomi24]

TWR, that's exactly what she is thinking about - and all credit to her.

[dannyk13]

It appears that at last we have a PM with a spine.

[ToraToraTora]

should get the anti British in a tizzy.

[Peter Pedant]

// Mrs May will pledge that the European Convention of Human Rights will no longer apply to troops serving in battle.//

presumably they will want it to apply when something nasty is done to them ?

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhoudt_massacre//

my father wasnt a witness - one of his colleagues was. Successfully pleaded that there was no one left to prosecute as a result of losses at Stalingrad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmedy_massacre_trial

convictions overturned and acquittals substituted on the grounds that their German interrrogators acting for the Americans had played Russian Roulette,carried out mock executions and beaten confessions out of them

[yeah yeah I know I am gonna get "Malmedy wot wiv dat ven?" by the thousand and one ex vet wag will quip again "I put Wormhoudt foo de google translator and it didnt fink narfin!"]

[ToraToraTora]

gawd elp us our resident genius has awoken!

[Peter Pedant]

what did I predict ?

[Khandro]

Good news. The Brussels morons are still unbelievably demanding an EU army, if Britain were not to Brexit (if that's a verb) they would lose control of their forces to a centralised command, which would require an overall commander- in-chief, and that could well be a clown such as Jean-Claude Juncker. A position Napolean and Hitler would both have dreamed of, occupied by a total unelected civil servant nonentity. The ming boggles!

[ToraToraTora]

Khandro: Does that mean they will first have to create an EU directive on the specification and construction of a standardised white flag?

[RandyMarsh]

We fight a lot with the Americans, I hope our boys families can still claim compensation for "friendly fire" incidents.

[cassa333]

There should be due and proper investigation of acts of atrocity during conflict but there should not automatically be a call for procecution if the evidence is flimsy.

[Ninefingers]

They key to this is easy, in war things happen that the worlds lefties and to be honest the majority of those who have never been in that position view things as atrocities, they are not they happen. No member of our armed forces should face any action for doing their job, if they break the standard Rules of Engagement military discipline deals with it, when they return from action our government must protect them!

[Baldric]

Well said Ninefingers, I've been back in Civvy St. a good few years now and what you say is spot-on.