We have support — now let's build momentum

It has been a busy week for the justiceforveterans.uk campaign and thanks to your help the numbers are building. Time for us to push forward to support those who protect us.

The petition has now reached 160,577 signatures. With the Westminster debate Westminster scheduled for 14th June, more signatures add moral weight and demonstrates public anger at the treatment of veterans.

We have continued regular postings on justiceforveterans.uk, X(Twitter), Bluesky, and Facebook. A video on our YouTube channel, where retire Lt. Col Simon Barry tells what serving was like for a regular soldier in Northern Ireland, hit 60,000 views.

And, this week the Daily Mail began its campaign supporting our work for justice for veterans of Operation Banner.

The campaign began on Thursday (26/6) with a front page story by Defence and Diplomacy Editor, Mark Nicoll: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14848053/stop-labour-betrayal-sas-heroes-ira-veterans.html

On the inside, Robert Hardman, journalist, author and documentary filmmaker best known for his work on the British Royal family, wrote about the night raid on a police station using the IRA's most deadly gun, an SAS team facing mortal danger — and 30 years on, a monstrous threat to haul them to court: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14848063/ROBERT-HARDMAN-night-raid-ira-deadly-gun-sas-team.html

Then, Mark Francois MP, Shadow Defence Minister, spoke up for the veterans on TalkTV:

On Friday (27/6), a former Conservative minister described military veterans in the Labour Party as 'useful idiots' after they tore up his law to protect soldiers. Johnny Mercer, the architect of the Legacy Act, took aim at the former troops who have left Northern Ireland veterans exposed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14852041/useful-idiots-Prime-Minister-law-prevent-hounding-veterans.html

Sir David Davis in the House of Commons asked which side is Labour on — the troops who defended this nation in Northern Ireland, or those who tried to destroy it? https://www.justiceforveterans.uk/p/mp-blasts-governments-legal-vendetta Video:

The Telegraph reported Starmer’s tsar attacking ‘two-tier’ plans to prosecute Northern Ireland veterans. David Johnstone, the veterans’ commissioner for Northern Ireland, said that repealing the Legacy Act would lead to “vexatious lawfare” against former soldiers. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/970cf425c2d76bb4

One of our team, Retired SAS Commander Aldwin Wight, appeared on GB News: https://x.com/gbnews/status/1938281100985430448?s=46&t=WTTw2y6ddq23ORiZlRm5Rg and https://x.com/gbnews/status/1938279087480492251?s=46&t=WTTw2y6ddq23ORiZlRm5Rg

Saturday (28/6) another team member, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, made the difficult decision to speak publicly, which made the front page of the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14855129/Ex-royal-aide-betrayal-SAS-heroes-Northern-Ireland.html

Robert Hardman also wrote about the staggering naivety of armchair warrior judge, as reconstruction exposes flaws in controversial SAS legal ruling: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14855267/ROBERT-HARDMAN-judge-reconstruction-SAS-legal-ruling.html

There is plenty more to come.

Get your friends, family, co-workers, and anyone else you know to sign the petition.

The past matters now for the future: This affects the morale, confidence, and capability of all current and future soldiers.

Let’s make sure the Government knows that their feckless treatment of veterans and the IRA’s rewriting of history will not be tolerated by the great British public.

Visit: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/725716