As a result of the furore that has blown up over the issue of an impromptu meeting between a group of trainee British soldiers and the human rights and anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, one of the young soldiers has been discharged from the Army. Although the Ministry of Defence (MOD) are claiming that the soldier discharged was a young man who had a ‘poor disciplinary record’ and that this incident where he was pictured with Mr Robinson was ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’, we should consider whether the MOD’s version is the entire truth.
It may well be the case that this particular soldier did indeed have had a poor service record but we don’t know for certain, as we only have the MOD’s word on this, the MOD could be lying. However it could equally be the case that this particular young man was selected as a sacrifice to the demands of the Muslim Council of Britain and other Islamic groups that someone’s head should roll. The existence of a poor service record or a poor discipline record associated with the man chosen for sacrifice would have been a bonus for the MOD as it has made this matter easier to spin. The MOD may be banking on a lot of people saying ‘oh it was a bad soldier anyway’ or stuff like that and thereby reducing the tension and the public ire being currently directed at the MOD. Unfortunately for the MOD and the Islamopanderers who are working within it, this ire has not did down, in fact it has got worse.
The MOD’s reaction to this incident, which is I understand a potential breach of Queens Regulations regarding apolitical behaviour by troops, has been so relentlessly politically correct, seemingly unjust and over the top and in addition so obviously driven by a desire to keep the Muslim population sweet, that it has disgusted a large number of people. The sight of our Defence Ministry, the entity that is tasked with keeping the nation safe, throwing a young man to the Islamic political wolves so shortly after the Muslim Council of Britain demanded that ‘something be done’ about the ‘Islamophobia’, has angered people, a lot. In my opinion it was this seemingly craven behaviour by the MOD with regards the MCB’s demands that has been one of the propulsive forces behind a well supported petition, 107,000 as of last night, for the ‘witch hunt’ of the soldiers who took part in the selfie with Mr Robinson to stop. If the MOD thought that sacking a soldier for associating with Mr Robinson then they have been proven mightily wrong over this.
The public reaction to the MOD’s actions and their reasoning behind it has been pretty harsh and it has also, according to Tommy Robinson in a recent video, opened up to public view and scrutiny the levels of pro Islam pandering that is going on in the military. The incident and the MOD’s reaction to it has also prompted individuals to come forward to claim that there is a widening gulf between the attitudes of those in the lower ranks and the top brass. Mr Robinson is claiming that he is receiving communications from both ex and serving service personnel that various Army commanding officers have been giving briefings to troops across the country about Mr Robinson. He is claiming that these briefings are telling soldiers that they must have no contact with Mr Robinson online or support Mr Robinson’s views and that there is no place for those who support Mr Robinson in the Army. Mr Robinson is also claiming that some of these briefings contain the phrase ‘we must keep the Muslims happy’, a statement that is increasing the anger at the way this incident is being handled both outside and allegedly inside the military.
What we seem to have here, based on what Mr Robinson is claiming and by observing the way that the MOD has dealt with this issue is one where the views and attitudes of the rank and file, many of whom often come from the same working class communities that are being afflicted by the problems Islam brings, differ starkly from the Officer Class. The idea of an Officer Class has been with the British military for centuries, but the difference now is that this Officer Class is not primarily made up of the scions of aristocratic families for whom entering the military as an Officer was an expected path for sons, but is a far more political Officer Class than ever it was before. Now an adherence to the culture of political correctness with its accompanying pandering to minorities and which has been imposed by successive governments on the British military is now seemingly the defining feature of today’s Officer Class. The attitudes of this new Officer Class are, if Mr Robinson are to be believed is, along with recruitment, retention and equipment problems, contributing to a decline in military morale. It must indeed piss off the ordinary working service person to know that their equipment and weaponry may be second rate and that their workloads are high due to recruitment and retention issues to see senior officers wasting time and resources building internal and parasitical ‘diversity empires’ that contribute nothing at all to military efficiency or the defence of the realm. Although I have not served in the British military, I think I would be pissed off if I had to work harder than necessary, or put up with poorly made or maintained equipment or have to operate in a crumbling military infrastructure. I’d be even more enraged if I had to put up with this stuff whilst senior officers ran round promoting stuff like transgenderism and Islam to the lower ranks and brooking no challenge to the political correctness they are pushing.
I tend to agree with Mr Robinson when he said in the video that is linked here and below, that the Army top brass is scared that Mr Robinson and his cause may have a lot of support among lower ranks. It would be unsurprising if Mr Robinson did have a lot of support among lower ranks because it is often those occupying the lower ranks who come from areas that have quite frankly been socially and politically decimated by the influence of Islam. I agree also with Mr Robinson that there is developing a sharp dichotomy between the politically correct actions and attitudes of the military top brass (many of whom seem to me to be more like politicians than military personnel in their attitudes) and the rest of our long suffering military. It is fear and the cultural and political divide between officers and men that is behind the harsh reaction that they’ve had to this relatively minor incident.
They, the top brass, the officers who witter on about ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ and who have allowed Islamic Imams to advise and dictate military policy towards Islam and the relatively small (445 according to 2015 figures) number of Muslim service personnel, want to nip any support no matter how legal or peaceful for counter Islam causes among the ranks in the bud. This may well be because there is now a major gulf between the somewhat more realistic attitude to radical Islam among the rank and file and the military management. It is this fear among the military management of a reluctance of more junior service personnel to buy into the political ideology being promoted by their superiors that may well be a factor in the harsh treatment of this individual soldier. We can ascertain this from the willingness of senior officers to bow down to groups such as the Muslim Council of Britain, the briefings about ‘keeping the Muslims happy’ and MOD actions to try to curtail even further than may be absolutely necessary, the rights of individual service personnel to hold or express opinions on the great issues of the day.
I don’t think this issue may go away as quickly as the MOD and the Quislings for Islam embedded within this department may like. Public knowledge of this story is growing along with increasing anger at what is being perceived by some as an injustice against the individual soldier. I think that the way that the MOD has handled this is backfiring on them and will continue to backfire, just as the gaoling of Tommy Robinson earlier this year has backfired on the Government. Not only has the Ministry of Defence been shown to be treating these troops in a draconian manner relative to the offence of being seen to promote a political cause whilst in uniform, but the MOD’s actions have also exposed to the public the hitherto less than visible extent to which Islamic groups have been allowed to influence the management and policies of Britain’s military. We should be angry or at least concerned that these troops who were pictured with Mr Robinson are or will be treated with disproportionate harshness and we should be angry at the sheer amount of Islamopandering that is going on in the military and which has been inadvertently exposed by the MOD’s reaction to this incident. There is a petition, linked below, which you can sign if you wish that calls for an end to the targeting of these soldiers who were pictured with Mr Robinson. This incident, and the furore about it, may also be a good opportunity for readers to write to their Parliamentary representatives and ask just how much influence do groups such as the Muslim Council of Britain have on the UK’s military policy? The MCB is no great friend of freedom and it strikes me as absurd that such an entity should have any position of influence over the entities that are tasked with protecting Britons.
Links
Tommy Robinson video on the discharge of a soldier pictured with him at Watford Gap motorway services. In this video Mr Robinson makes the intriguing claim that the MOD are being dishonest about the serviceman sacked and that the claim he had a poor disciplinary record is dishonest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxLURwEkMrI
Petition to Stop the Witch Hunt of British troops over the Tommy Robinson incident
https://www.therebel.media/standwithourlads
Metro newspaper coverage of this story which seems be based on large part on MOD press releases
Some interesting opinions, not all of which I agree with, from the Army Rumour site. I do however concur with the poster on this site who said that the MOD have made things worse and alienated a lot of normal ordinary people by cueing up the Imam. Personally I think that the MOD have given the impression that the military are going out of their way to appease Islam and this is pissing people off.
https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/army-investigating-video-of-tommy-robinson-with-crow.287040/
Destroying morale and a collapse of recruitment in the British Army is just the first step to creating a European Army.
I was told by someone who was at Sandhurst with Nick Carter that he was “a good egg” and a good officer. Then he was knighted and became all touchy-feely and pro-Islam. Go figure.
Sounds like Sir Nick may have fallen into a groupthink bubble with regards Islam. It could also be that he knows that govt policy is to pander to Islam and is going along with this in order to ascend the greasy pole? I agree with you that morale seems to be plummeting and the PC lackeys in the top brass cannot be helping matters in this area. I don’t think that we are on the verge of military mutiny at the moment but we certainly have a disconnect between the happy clappy PC’ers in the upper ranks and the more grounded views of the lower ranks and this cannot be good for the military machine.