Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #medalforheroes
Most recents (4)
BREAKING: The secretive medal cttee which denies honours to veterans will be reviewed, vows Labour.
@JohnHealey_MP will overhaul the system which forces those who served to fight again for recognition. cc @BWallaceMP @JohnnyMercerUK
#medalforheroes
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
@JohnHealey_MP will overhaul the system which forces those who served to fight again for recognition. cc @BWallaceMP @JohnnyMercerUK
#medalforheroes
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Hopefully it would mean more honours for rank-and-file servicemen, who get thoroughly overlooked by top brass who are up to their necks in gongs.
"The only time some of them have held a gun is on a grouse shoot," said nuclear veteran John Morris, 85.
"The only time some of them have held a gun is on a grouse shoot," said nuclear veteran John Morris, 85.
This is important because, in govt, Labour could never again claim this medal committee was fit for purpose, not unless it's rebuilt to deliver veterans justice without forcing them into long and damaging battles for the truth.
The psychological and social harm of that is vast.
The psychological and social harm of that is vast.
BREAKING NEWS: I am going to have to reassess my opinion of the Prime Minister.
Massive, huge, win for @atomiclabrats and #lookmeintheeye and #medalforheroes - but still much much more to do
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Massive, huge, win for @atomiclabrats and #lookmeintheeye and #medalforheroes - but still much much more to do
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
This is down to everybody who launched and supported #lookmeintheeye - @almurray @rorybremner @mrmarksteel @Keir_Starmer @AndyBurnhamGM @MetroMayorSteve @RLong_Bailey and each of you who signed, backed, shared. THANK YOU. change.org/p/justice-for-…
This is the letter from @BorisJohnson to Britain's most mistreated and maligned heroes, the nuclear test veterans. Actual tears here, because this is the best these men have ever had.
EXCLUSIVE: Successive UK govts ordered 22,000 servicemen into "serious biological risks" from nuclear weapons testing.
They did not tell the troops.
#medalforheroes
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
They did not tell the troops.
#medalforheroes
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
This is a cache of 1,000 classified documents that were opened but mostly unseen, gathering dust in an archive of their own within the National Archives, and resistant to all my efforts to find them.
I was passed a list of file numbers and titles, and pulled 20 of the ones that looked most interesting, a total of 522 pages. It's taken months to comb through them, but the overall picture they paint is horrifying.
EXC: Bombshell govt study finds nuclear test veterans were more likely to die, and more likely to get cancer.
This blows apart 70 years of official denial.
Full story here: mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/n…
This blows apart 70 years of official denial.
Full story here: mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/n…
Main findings:
* HALF the crew of HMS Diana, ordered twice to sail through fallout in 1956, died from tumours
* Atomic scientists were SEVEN times more likely to kill themselves
* RAF decontamination crews were FIVE times more likely to die from leukaemia
* HALF the crew of HMS Diana, ordered twice to sail through fallout in 1956, died from tumours
* Atomic scientists were SEVEN times more likely to kill themselves
* RAF decontamination crews were FIVE times more likely to die from leukaemia
* There were more cancers than deaths, meaning some veterans have fought multiple malignancies
* And despite @DefenceHQ claims servicemen were well-protected, 77% were not checked for radiation, + clean-up workers were both unmonitored, and more likely to die from blood cancer.
* And despite @DefenceHQ claims servicemen were well-protected, 77% were not checked for radiation, + clean-up workers were both unmonitored, and more likely to die from blood cancer.
