Soldiers' Housing in Blairland

The news that our armed services are quite often forced to live in squalor should come as no surprise.

Before I continue let me say that this has nothing to do with the war in Iraq, Afghanistan or any other 'theatre' that the British Army, RAF or Navy is involved in.

We can agree or disagree with the various wars; we can agree or disagree with the idea of men and women offering to fight for a government and system that is not just off the rails, but is increasingly just plain evil; but when men and women of our nationality put their lives on the line, we should at least have the decency to house them properly.

This news is a mere reflection of the treatment of the firemen a little while back when men and women who risk their lives - in less contentious, but equally as dangerous circumstances - were given a pitiful wage rise whilst being asked to accept cuts in services that would risk lives: both theirs and the publics at large.

All too often we see the politicians - who aren't afraid to give themselves large wages rises, superb expenses packages, cut-price food and drink at Westminster, plush new offices etc. etc. - treating the people who are called on to risk their very lives as chattels, as if being a politician [often lying, swindling and treacherous] demanded better reward than being someone who puts their life on the line, often at the behest of those self-same politicians!

Tony Blair sends them off to illegal wars in which they can and do die. But never mind if their families live in squalor, in rat-infested housing, because Blair has numerous properties [his own and state-supplied] where he can live in opulence. And whilst financiers and bankers in the City of London get Christmas bonuses of millions of pounds – because they “take risks” – the soldiers who take the real risks, doing the dirty work at the coal face, the work that Blair, Bush and the other Neo Cons won’t send their own kids out to do, get treated so badly!

It's as if it isn't enough to send them off to fight wars for Israel and Big Business, a government about to waste multi-millions on Trident's replacement can't even put them and/or their families in standard accomodation [whilst finding the money to house asylum seekers].

And imagine the uproar if the inferior housing, which we’ve seen on the news reports, were lived in by Asians or Afro-Caribbeans in our multi-cult mess of a land? They would riot!

As one wife living in rotten conditions said today on the radio, they’d be housed better if they left their husbands – because single mums get better housing from the council!

Such is life in Blair’s Bolshevik Britain… where we’re all equal, but some are more equal then others!

Come on now Labour Party members, altogether now:

Four legs good, two legs bad…