Is The British Government Mistreating Its Wounded Soldiers?

Government To Cut Wounded Soldiers’ Awards -- Times Online

The government will this week launch an attempt to deny soldiers crippled in battle full compensation for their injuries.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will go to the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to try to slash the compensation awarded to two injured soldiers by up to 70%. If the government wins, it will fuel the mounting disquiet over the relatively paltry payments some soldiers are receiving for lifelong injuries.

The legal action comes as British troops are suffering their heaviest casualties since the beginning of the conflict in Afghanistan in 2001.

Yesterday a soldier from the 40th Regiment Royal Artillery became the 20th to die this month, and the 189th overall, when he was killed in an explosion in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province.

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My Comment: The U.K. Labor Party is out of touch .... I am surprise that their popularity is not in the single digits. I can now understand why the rate for re-enlistment in the British military is so low .... who would want to sign up with the expectation that this is how you are going to be treated.

Update #1: The Army’s Been Hit by Brown’s Unfriendly Fire -- Michael Portillo, The Times opinion

Update #2: We Owe a Debt to the War Wounded -- The Times editorial.