UK Government’s Mismanagement of Soldier Rights Sparks Deep Concerns Amidst Future Deployments

Soldiers Face Uncertainty Over Legal Protections as Government Fails to Clarify Operational Framework

Judging by the UK Government’s past behaviour, the parallels of how this government apparatus will behave are concerning soldiers sent into future conflicts, young today’s young soldiers should be deeply concerned.

What is the legal operating framework? Will those deploying be made aware of this framework before deploying, unlike every single conflict since the Human Rights Act (HRA) was implemented in 1998?

Interpreted and applied correctly soldiers will study any orders they receive — indeed they must study every single order involving the advice of their own legal advisors — to ensure compliance with the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). To do otherwise would be negligent. By their adherence to the ECHR above all else — including national interest — Starmer and fellow legal jihadis have demonstrated one thing: “Read the small print before picking up that rifle my lad and lassie”.

The Northern Ireland Troubles taught us one major lesson that must be remembered by every soldier: what you believe you are fighting for is not necessarily the same as what our government is fighting for.

And, when the political questions get tough it is soldiers who will ultimately pay the price.

Soldiers were sent into Northern Ireland to help protect a religious minority and maintain law and order, but through a total misreading of the actual situation and constant political bungling by the highly partisan Westminster process, it is we — the military who fought there for three decades — who are now the problem.

This absurd, insulting effect sits directly at the feet of those legal ‘experts’ who run this country, favouring every single minority interest over the majority. It is the key feature of the ECHR (and its UK franchise, the 1998 HRA), that in any and every situation the rights of minorities are held ‘more equal’ (eat your heart out George Orwell) than those of the majority. This is not an opinion — it is the law.