The unspoken covent, what is that you ask?
When we ask our armed forces to go in to hazardous situations like Afghanistan, Iraq or Sierra Leone, for them to perform their tasks, they need to have no worries about themselves, their wives and family. They did know that The Government, no matter which party was in control, they and their families would be looked after, if something unfortunate became of them.
This was the case until very recently, now it seems that George Osbourne will be clawing back some of their pension entitlements from these brave men and women who have served this country well and been injured, or their widows and children, which is scandlous.
It comes to something when even the head of all armed forces General Sir David Richards said he too was concerned. Here is what he said "We are concerned because the most important thing that the armed forces need to retain and keep happy are our people - we have got outstanding people - otherwise, if you like, our version of punching above our weight just wouldn't happen - so it is really important for all sorts of operational (reasons)."
The Government stance is quite the opposite.
A Downing Street spokeswoman added: "The Prime Minister has the highest regard for the armed forces and their families but tough decisions had to be made in this particular respect." This is no way to treat our armed forces and I would have been saying this, even if the Governement had been a Labour one.
Here is a link to the BBC story on Forces pensions.
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