Remembrance Day parades scrapped due to brutal Tory police cuts as critics slam 'insult to our veterans'

by Irn Bru Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:35 am

The scrapping and scaling down of dozens of Remembrance Day events after brutal Tory cuts left too few police officers to cover them has been branded an insult to our war heroes.

Julia Wortley, Assistant Chief Con of Essex Police, told local British Legions her force cannot handle the 80 events in the county. And parades were axed in London, Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire.

Labour MP Michael Dugher slammed Government cutbacks, saying: “This is an insult to our veterans and to the brave men and women of our Armed Forces.”

Home Secretary Theresa May has slashed the police budget by around 26% over the past five years, axing 35,000 officers.

And thousands more posts could go after cuts in next month’s Autumn Statement.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/remembrance-day-parades-scrapped-due-6732492

And after watching the news of the funeral of the PC murdered on Merseyside this government is a disgrace.

by nicko Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:08 am

I feel for the family, but why the big event? I thought a Royal had died.

by Tommy Monk Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:54 pm

Thought you lefties would be in favour of this as it's what your leader supports...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/616142/Jeremy-Corbyn-First-World-War-British-soldiers-monney-pointless

by Irn Bru Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:49 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:Thought you lefties would be in favour of this as it's what your leader supports...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/616142/Jeremy-Corbyn-First-World-War-British-soldiers-monney-pointless

False. He supports the commemoration of those who died.

by Guest Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:56 pm

A number of newspapers have reported comments by Jeremy Corbyn about commemorating the First World War.
The Daily Express claims that the Labour leader said commemorating WWI was “pointless”, the Daily Telegraph said he “questioned” why the war was commemorated, and the Daily Mail reported he was under fire for “denouncing” the cost of commemorations.
The comments were made at an event organised by the Morning Star newspaper and were posted on YouTube in April 2013.
But what did the Labour leader actually say? Here’s the full quote and its context:
“Keir Hardie was a great opponent of the First World War and apparently next year the government is proposing to spend shedloads of money commemorating the First World War. I'm not sure what there is to commemorate about the First World War other than the mass slaughter of millions of young men and women, mainly men, on the Western Front and all the other places.
“And it was a war of the declining empires and anyone who's read or even dipped into Hobson's great work of the early part of the 20th century, written post World War, presaged the whole First World War as a war between monopolies fighting between [inaudible] markets.
“The reason I say this is next year the government are planning this celebration and I think that's an opportunity for us. It's an opportunity to discuss war and discuss peace and to put up an alternative point of view.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/what-jeremy-corbyn-actually-said-about-commemorating-the-first-world-war-a6717891.html

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