Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
An independent inquiry has been launched to find out why there are so many ex-service personnel in Britain's prisons. In September, a study by the probation officers' union Napo found that there were around 8,500 veterans in prison, making up approximately one tenth of the prison population. The Howard League for Penal Reform, which is conducting the new year-long inquiry, will hold consultation sessions...
The Charity Commission has been urged to clamp down on “BNP organisations masquerading as veterans charities” by a group of former senior army generals. The call came in a letter signed by General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt, former heads of the army; Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, former chief of defence staff, and Major-General Patrick Cordingley, commander of the Desert...
Generals join forces to resist 'hijacking' by BNP The Armed Forces are in danger of being hijacked by far-right extremists “for their own dubious ends”, a group of former generals warn today. The British National Party is tarnishing the Forces’ reputation by associating itself with the sacrifices of servicemen, they write. They highlight fears within military circles that the party...
The Armed Forces are in danger of being hijacked by far-right extremists “for their own dubious ends”, a group of former generals warn today. The British National Party is tarnishing the Forces’ reputation by associating itself with the sacrifices of servicemen, they write. They highlight fears within military circles that the party is exploiting their public standing. The letter,...
From an article in the Times today shows that even the MOD are overstaffed with civil servants. The Ministry of Defence is so stuffed with civil servants that they outnumber the combined manpower of the Royal Navy and the RAF. The statistic, produced by the Conservatives yesterday to attack the Government’s record on defence manpower, followed condemnation by General Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank,...
On board were the architect Lord Foster of Thames Bank; Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, the former Army Chief of Staff; Sir John Bond, the chairman of HSBC, Britain’s biggest bank, and the financier Lord Rothschild. Lord Rothschild brought along his youngest son, Nathaniel, and the party was accompanied by four executives from a public relations [...]
President Obama and his far-left base are bent on releasing savage terrorism suspects from Guantanamo, and even closing that prison, while at the same time once again blaming America (via Bush, where and whenever possible). He’s done it overseas, but now the focus is on berating Americans at home, interrogating the interrogators, especially those in the CIA (but perhaps mostly those outside...
General Charles R L Guthrie, now known as Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, has opened taken Gordon Brown to task over the military strategy in Afghanistan. A much respected and well liked General, he was Chief of the Defence Staff between 1997 and 2001 and Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1994 and 1997. He notably clashed, over military funding, with Gordon...
Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 25/07/2009
Senior Cabinet ministers have let down the troops, misled the public and fought the war in Afghanistan in a “penny-pinching” way, a former defence chief says. Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank contradicted assertions by Lord Mandelson and Alistair Darling about the resourcing of British forces. He also told The Times that Gordon Brown was not interested in defence and he said that Sir Richard...
Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank was Tony Blair’s favourite general. The Colonel-Commandant of the SAS was more famous in Whitehall for reputedly slitting people’s throats in the jungles of Malaysia than stabbing enemies in the back in the corridors of power.
Gordon Brown has insisted Britain's strategy in Afghanistan is succeeding, despite the bloody fighting which saw the loss of eight soldiers in 24 hours last week. "While I know there are some who have questioned our strategy, I continue to believe our strategy is the right one," he said. "It has been a very difficult summer and it is not over". But today the times reports Generals...
Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
The Government is facing renewed pressure to re-think its decision to update the Trident nuclear deterrent in the face of growing cost pressures on the defence budget. A report by a high-level commission for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) urges ministers to consider whether the submarine-based system is the most cost-effective way of maintaining Britain's "minimum" deterrent...
Today's Times carries a robust statement against torture by Charles Guthrie (General Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank), former UK Chief of Defence Staff. One of the good features of his statement is that it starts from the fundamentals - that torture...
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