Is the UK thinking about a war?

[conservative green]

The UK does not send "kids" to war, your concern for them is as phoney as it is uninformed and it has NOTHING to do with my question to you, has it?

False. The UK, to this day, sends 16 and 17 year olds to war. This is known and commented upon, even by conservative journals such as the Mail and Telegraph.

[conservative green]

At my age, I regard kids are kids till they get into their twenties and have started to live life, seemingly your version of kids is anything over 18 that can be used for cannon fodder, is ok.

Though I agree with your posts in this thread, just by way of correction, 16 and 17 year olds from working class backgrounds are regularly recruited into Oliver's Army to this day. Britain is in regular breach of the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child. The British establishment sends child soldiers into war, to this day. It is not in a position to lecture anyone, even Somalia, on human rights.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/ma...chld-m08.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVwrrkt22Ag

[murkeyside]

They recruit 16 & 17 year olds but don't send them to war - there are occasions when someone screws up and is too lazy to fully check the paperwork but official policy is to NOT send them until they are 18.

Britain's boy soldier II: Squaddie sent home from Iraq after mother complained over paying postage for 18th birthday present | Mail Online

[Desperate Dan]

How many "wars" have the Brits been in since then, and which members of the Royal family, in your opinion, dodged them? As for "Andy the wallet (Oh you wag) flying a copter"!!! Is there really no depth to your utter f*cking ignorance?



No, I just don't use emotive language when I'm dealing with fact, and this is nothing to do with your dubious sincerity about "cannon fodder" anyway.



As they say, "the truth will out".

If you had an ounce of humility or self-knowledge you'd have crawled under a rock in embarassment by now, your continued avoidance of the question I put to you says it all. Please go away, you have NOTHING of value or interest to contribute to this thread, nor I suspect, any other.

Your contribution, is to a flag, wherever it has flown, has left behind death and destruction, in every country it has been. Hearts and minds, is a complete joke. Murder, mayhem and rape,is more fitting. When forced out of countries, you went in disgrace.

[sgtharper]

Though I agree with your posts in this thread, just by way of correction, 16 and 17 year olds from working class backgrounds are regularly recruited into Oliver's Army to this day. Britain is in regular breach of the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child. The British establishment sends child soldiers into war, to this day. It is not in a position to lecture anyone, even Somalia, on human rights.

British Army used under-18-year-old soldiers in Iraq occupation

ELVIS COSTELLO - Oliver's Army - YouTube

Wrong, Mod Policy is that no one under the age of 18 can be sent on operations, the well-publicised case recently was remarkable because it was an exception caused by some sloppy clerical work. I'm sure any other ases were the same. And for the record, 16 years olds don't even serve in the Field Army, they are all in Army Apprentice or Foundation colleges.
What Elvis Costello has to do with it all I really don't know.

[likesfish]

I'm pretty sure if we wanted your gas some shiny beads and a meal with Queenie would seal the deal.
how much money did you get up front form shell again?

[o gara60]

I'm pretty sure if we wanted your gas some shiny beads and a meal with Queenie would seal the deal.
how much money did you get up front form shell again?

I would have thought you had enough of us?Anyway when Ireland had enough of you the empire collapsed I guess when Scotland goes nobody will be left to fight so the last remnants will disappear.