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UK distributes LIBOR fines paid by banks among military charities
Almost £2.5 million to go to the British armed forces community, including those currently serving, veterans and families. Armed forces charities and good causes are to benefit from the latest tranche of funding from the £35 million Armed Forces Covenant (LIBOR) Fund, the government has announced. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI can't think of a better place for that money to go.
Sep 12th, 2013 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0For: 1 Britworker.
Sep 12th, 2013 - 06:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0I agree,Mate. But...
Compared to what is really needed, it’s a pitifully paltry sum. And if the big-earning Bankers and others of the super remunerated elite were appropriately taxed, perhaps serving and former members of our Armed Forces wouldn’t have suffer the indignity of what essentially, is begging for charitable help!
In my view, it’s high time that the U.K. had summat along the lines of the U.S.V.A. –based on legislation which ENTITLES their former service people to REAL BENEFITS.
Of course, it’s gratifying to see that belatedly, attitudes have softened somewhat toward those who’ve served our country in War. When ‘my lot’ and I returned from Korea, we got virtually bugger-all. Nevertheless, whilst we were away, the civilians at home had enjoyed a hitherto unprecedented hike in living standards.
Cheers!
Jim, in Madrid.
Well at least UK looks after her war veterans to a certain extent. Does Argentina?
Sep 12th, 2013 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 03 redpoll.
Sep 12th, 2013 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I utterly ail to see what on earth your comment on the Argentine regime’s disgraceful treatment of its former service personnel has to do with the matter in hand.
Shouldn’t we ‘SELF-RIGHTEOUS, MORALLY SUPERIOR’ Britons aspire to BETTER the treatment of our OWN, BEFORE trying to score cheap propaganda points on the backs of our defeated Argentinean former adversaries –most of whom were simply silly, brainwashed kids, who’d been conscripted (drafted) into a tin-pot army who’s generals’ principal claim to notoriety was that of terrorising and torturing the very citizens whom they had taken a solemn oath to protect!
Cheers!
Jim, in Madrid.
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