Comments on: Improvements in Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

By: Martin Kettrick

Martin Kettrick — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:07:08 +0000

The new AFCS is a great step forward but lets be honest it was introduced because the old War Pension Scheme was woefully inadiquate but nothing has been done to redress the injustice faced by War Pensioers and that is an absolute disgrace on the part of Parliament. Why are War Pensioners doing nothing to fight for some justice and why does Parlianment treat them with such disgusting disdain? Most Poiticians are simply disengenuos otherwise they would have addressed this injustice many years ago.

By: Richard Stockley

Richard Stockley — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:50:21 +0000

I think an important question is how much would a fireman or a policeman get suffering the same injuries?

By: Euan

Euan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:02:27 +0000

13th Spitfire I agree with that, we don’t need a whole load of them but at least a couple of joint service hospitals would be a good idea although after the current fighting is over they might seem surplus to requirements again. The idea would be to have some in permanent MoD use and others available when needed !!BUT NO BLOODY PFI’S!!. Some of the old hospitals are still there from what I know albeit it boarded up and unused so the sites are still available. I actually remember having a good wander round the old Hospital at RAF Halton before it was knocked down last year it was a sad site indeed now home to some modern housing.

By: 13th spitfire

13th spitfire — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:21:04 +0000

Why the **** were Labour complacent in continuing Major’s madness of closing down all the armed forces hospitals. Sure we probably didn’t need 10 of them, but two for each service or a couple of general armed forces hospitals would have been the least one could have expected. Now we have none. And the people hate this government than any other, that is the only consolation I can find.