New Bill is ‘lost opportunity’ to put the Armed Forces Covenant into law
No respect: Boris Johnson showed contempt for our Armed Forces by laying his wreath face-down at a Remembrance Day ceremony. Now his government will show contempt by failing to enshrine the Armed Forces Covenant into law.
How many times must the Tories let servicepeople down before military personnel (and former members of the services) realize the Tories are not their friends and don’t deserve their vote?
People in the military tend to have Toryism drummed into them from early training days onwards. It was no surprise when military personnel were found to have been using images of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for target practice a few years ago.
But it is bizarre, when the Tories take every opportunity to let our squaddies down.
Case in point: the new Armed Forces Bill. The Tories are saying it will enshrine the Armed Forces Covenant in law, to ensure that armed forces personnel, veterans and their families are not disadvantaged by their service when accessing key public services like health care, education and housing, but are treated fairly.
Sadly, the Tories can’t even treat them fairly in discussing this law about them.
You see:
The Bill will not enshrine the covenant in law at all.
Instead, the Bill introduces
a legal duty for relevant UK public bodies to have due regard to the principles of the Covenant
– which means very little in real terms.
Labour’s John Healey has it right:
“As it stands, this bill is a missed opportunity. It does not put the Armed Forces Covenant properly into law to ensure Forces personnel and veterans suffer no disadvantage in access to services, nor will it put right the long-term failings in the military justice system.”
No doubt our forces personnel won’t know they’ve been hoodwinked until they are back in civilian life and try to access the services they’ve been promised.
Source: New legislation to help ensure fair treatment for armed forces – GOV.UK
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