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Afghanistan
Gordon Brown snubbed by soldiers' 'curtain' protest
2009-12-06
Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him.

More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present.

The soldiers, who have sustained some of the worst injuries seen in Afghanistan, described his visit as "opportunistic" and a "waste of time".

Furious about equipment shortages and poor compensation for their injuries, one soldier said: "It is almost as if we are the product of an unwanted affair ... he has done nothing for us."
What an interesting way to put it.
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#8  Please it's now EU region 7 not the U.K.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2009-12-06 14:35  

#7  Was under the impression that the UK military had it's last breathe in Iraq, and is just now waiting for it's heart to stop.
Posted by: Charles   2009-12-06 13:12  

#6  Is there really still a UK? The EU has taken over and in fact the UK has all the sovereignty of a province.

UK RIP
Posted by: AlanC   2009-12-06 09:49  

#5  Note to Desirée and staff:

Make sure the bedside curtains are removed at Walter Reed and Bethesda before his next visit.

RE
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-12-06 08:19  

#4  Manhood? Methinks that is in scarce supply these days in certain circles.
Posted by: lotp   2009-12-06 07:46  

#3  And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
(4.3.43) Henry V, William Shakespeare.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-12-06 07:17  

#2  Sad but apparently fitting. It's sickening to watch the UK as it has changed. I recall the uniform demoralization of the half-dozen UK officers I got to know in B'dad. Of course Brown is a disaster of unique and peculiar proportions, but the attitude he represents is - disastrously and scandalously - far from uncommon in the British or US political classes.

Never have so few done so much for so many who are undeserving of the benefit.
Posted by: Verlaine   2009-12-06 03:44  

#1  And he can't even accuse them of racism.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-12-06 02:16  

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