SAS soldiers are resigning in significant numbers over fears they will be subjected to ‘witch hunts’ by human-rights lawyers in what is being called a “threat to national security”. The Telegraph has the story.
Multiple sources have claimed that personnel from across 22 SAS, the Army’s most elite fighting force, have applied for premature voluntary release.
The Telegraph is withholding the exact figure for security reasons. However, several SAS sources have described the recent losses as “significant” and a “threat to national security”.
At least two squadrons, D and G, are believed to have been affected, with insiders saying outrage over recent war crime probes into Afghanistan and Syria, which have been branded ‘witch hunts’, are believed to be the main driving forces.
The treatment of elderly Northern Ireland veterans who served in the SAS but have also found themselves being hounded through the courts on claims viewed as vexatious, some of which were described as “ludicrous” by a judge, has also contributed.
Among those understood to have resigned include several senior warrant officers, who are the backbone of the special forces and among the most experienced troops in the regiment. A number are understood to have applied for release ‘on principle’ just before Christmas.
“Morale is s–t at the moment,” one insider with knowledge of the recent losses warned, while another said there was “considerable disquiet” in the regiment as a result. …
Last month it was revealed 242 special forces troops, including 120 serving personnel, were being hounded by lawyers as part of £1 million-a-month human rights inquiries.
The figures were unveiled in a memo shared with the Special Air Service and the Special Reconnaissance Regiment associations last month.
Secret operations across Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and Syria are being probed by lawyers, with troops involved facing legal sanctions if they fail to comply.
The memo, revealed by the Daily Mail, claimed troops had started to sign off in protest at the legal onslaught.
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At last MP Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain has issued a strong, uncompromising statement in support of Britain’s Armed Forces:
Rupert Lowe MP on X: “We ask truly extraordinary things of our soldiers. Things that you and I could never even imagine, yet they now have these jumped-up little cretins in the Labour Party hounding them down decades after their service – it is a vile witch hunt. We have asked these Brits to go where” / X
One very small positive in all this is, for the guys leaving, is vastly better paid private employment options abound I’m sure with their level of training and capability… it’s just such a crying shame our shysters in charge choose to waste all that talent and money creating it…
name the lawyers
None of this would have happened if troops were still tried by Military Courts-Martial, which were ABOLISHED BY TONY BLAIR’S Armed Forces Act of 2006, allowing civilian political activist judges to seize complete control over the whole process, dragging troops in all branches of the Armed Forces down into the neverending quagmire of civil political prosecutions.
This has been a gold mine for civilian lawyers & judges, and part of the Globalist agenda to create a Global Kritocracy = “Rule by Judges”, riding roughshod over the executive, legislative and military authorities.
Lawyers useing tax payer funds to line their pockets , nobody will believe there is a milligramme of integrity involved……leave them in their underpants in downtown Kabul.
When they cannot recruit enough to provide vanity protection to Khan and Starmer they will have to recruit actors.
A dangerous job for an actor.
Leftists objective achieved.
The Tories thinned put our forces to a disgraceful extent and failed to protect troops from left wing legal adventures. Labour human rights lawyers and peers and judges supported the initiative.
How pleased they would be to see the SAD disbanded.
I don’t blame them, not in the least.
To me, it also beggars belief that any copper volunteers to be a firearms officer. They’re just bank account fodder for lawyers, a situation, I might add, completely down to the spinelessness of senior officers and of politicians.
…………….and the hard left mindset running through the judiciary.
Who in his right mind would want to sign up to be a soldier these days?
You risk your life, probably not even for you country but for the hubristic ambitions of a Blair-like creature, and then twenty years later some human rights lawyer will take you to court for a possible split second decision you made in the battlefield.
Perhaps this is the intention. What a clever way to defang this Lion.
Hopefully these Lions might start to show their claws…
Remember when the army shut down Heathrow to remind the Prime Minister who was really in power?
That sort of action requires commanders with national pride, reverence for history and a care for the future of Great Britain. Those positions are filled by captured woke drones now. The SAS could bring this whole $h1tshow to a stop in a single day. There are countless serving personnel and veterans itching to aid them to that end.
All that is required is a group of like-minded retired brass, because there are none still serving who are up to it as far as I can see.
The trouble is that the Communist Traitor Politicians have forced the military to embed hostile Third World Ethnics into every corner of the Armed Forces, who are willing to betray their supposed brothers-in-arms at a moment’s notice.
We all need to remember what the Bible says:
“Never let the enemy into the camp!”
Is anybody surprised? The problem with so many things in this country seem to stem form intervention by lawyers.
…………..particularly human rights lawyers.
If a right of centre party were to propose regulation to “reign in” the activities of human rights lawyers and amend human rights legislation – it would be a vote winner for me.
And prosecute the lawyers for harassing men who are far braver and more worthy than the gutter trash they are.
Well said!
They’re doing the same in Australia to Ben Roberts-Smith.
Thanks Starmer.
Thank Blair instead.
Yet another reason he should be in prison for High Treason against the British People.
Thank the way of thinking which has got us into this mess –
No Nation States = No wars = No need for defence = No need for Warriors = eradication of masculinity = this vindictive persecution of men who represent everything the Revolutionary types despise.
Excellent — you have hit the nail on the head!
Tories were no better!