Former Marine to stand against Johnny Mercer after failure to end veterans’ homelessness
Keyboard warrior: Johnny Mercer responded with anger to the revelation that an Armed Forces veteran will try to unseat him at the next general election after he failed to reduce veterans’ homelessness, instead presiding over a 14 per cent increase.
A former Royal Marine is to stand as Labour’s candidate against former Army officer and current Minister for Veterans Affairs, Johnny Mercer, at the next general election – as Mercer himself suggested.
Mercer swore to end veterans’ homelessness in 2023, saying, “Hold me to account.”
But he has failed dramatically, with veterans’ homelessness in fact increasing by 14 per cent.
Here’s Carol Vorderman with some facts:
.@fredthomasuk former Royal Marine, is Labour candidate against @JohnnyMercerUK in GE
Mercer swore he'd END veterans' homelessness in 2023, "hold me to account" he said
New figures show
VETERANS' HOMELESSNESS ROSE 14% in 2023
AppallingFred is holding him to account ⏬️
RT https://t.co/Bn3PetkfYQ— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) December 27, 2023
Will he apologise, asked Mr Thomas.
Apparently not.
Instead – well, here’s Vorders again:
⏬@JohnnyMercerUK slings abuse AGAIN
I pointed out he'd said
he would "end veterans' homelessness" by end 2023
& yet it's RISEN by 14%HIs childish response claims
🔷I tweet as I've a "sh*t lonely life"
🔷"No-one normal cares"
🔷I'm "mad"
🔷+ puking emojisTory ministers eh? https://t.co/ZfX4n1dv4v
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) December 27, 2023
To support herself, Vorders has tweeted some evidence:
Further information from Veterans' Charity @ForwardAssist1
"Homelessness among armed forces veterans in England rises by 14% this year….in spite of government pledges"
It's a worrying state of affairs for so many https://t.co/xGgfamQm3n
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) December 27, 2023
If any part of the factual information above is wrong, This Writer would be interested to know.
But it all looks fairly clear to me.
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It goes way deeper than a failure to deal with homelessness amongst former forces people. It’s also something that is down to the entire political/media establishment. We take young people and turn them into completely institutionalised order takers to make them “good soldiers”. A huge amount of effort goes into that, but almost no effort goes into turning them back into functional good citizens when they leave the armed forces. That is why there are so many veterans on the streets unable to cope with civilian life. They have been discarded and only their comrades in arms who conveniently died get respected by the society on whose behalf they were made unable to function.
If you have been turned into somebody who can’t make their own decisions without orders how are you to be expected to find a home and a job, or to get any medical treatment you need. It’s hard enough for the rest of us. Retraining veterans to cope with civilian life when they leave the forces should be an integral part of the Defence budget. Not an afterthought tacked on to deal with “problem cases”.