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Nov 13 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
While you’re still in bed, veterans are queuing to take their place on Horseguards for #remembranceday2022
Mirror video supremo @EddieHenryJames and I are with them - wearing the #MissingMedal @thehuwedwards
Streams of veterans of all services coming past us, all wearing varieties of medals. Some weighed down with them.

Nuke test vets will be the only guys here with no medal. #missingmedal
Currently telling every camera crew I can find about the nuclear test veterans. Huge numbers gathering here. Coverage on your tellybox from 1045am. #RemembranceDay
Nuke veterans and families prepare for the Cenotaph while wearing the #missingmedal #remembranceday2022
Veterans lined up and ready to march. I am the only journalist who has spoken to these men about their #missingmedal today. Shameful. #remembranceday2022 #thehuwedwards @SkyNews
Test veterans rolling down Whitehall. These are the men successive government have never remembered. #missingmedal #Remembrance
Nuclear veterans applauded by the Falklands veterans, but still ignored by their government. #missingmedal #RemembranceSunday
Test veterans watch the politicians line up to lay their wreaths - Starmer has guaranteed Labour would give them the #missingmedal #RemembranceSunday
Observing the silence in Whitehall. #missingmedal #RemembranceSunday

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Nov 12
At the #remembranceday2022 event at the Cenotaph tomorrow, you will see a small band of veterans wearing these black and yellow badges.

It is the #MissingMedal.
It is the medal that should have been given to those who delivered the nuclear deterrent in 1952.

Instead, Churchill gave honours to the chief scientist and top brass.
It should have been awarded after Operation Grapple X, 65 years ago this month, in 1957 when they produced Britain’s first H-bomb.

But it was done in a hurry, safety concerns out the window, before a global testing ban came in. A little too embarrassing.
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Nov 8
Today is important.

At 0857 on November 8, 1957, an RAF Valiant bomber dropped a carefully-prepared device of explosives, uranium-235, plutonium, beryllium and lithium deuteride, on the southern tip of Christmas Island in the South Pacific.

#missingmedal 🧵
The explosives detonated, the beryllium tamper compressed the blast wave and forced it back inwards, and the atoms of uranium and plutonium were split with a force equivalent to 18,000 tons of TNT.

Britain had just gone thermonuclear.
There were thousands of British troops on the island, at the most 20 miles from the blast and some around 6 miles.

Others were ok ships at sea, where the top brass were keeping a safer distance on HMS Cossack.

The 500 islanders were huddled under blankets on the beach.
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Nov 6
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/… Image
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.
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.
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Oct 3
While @trusskliz tries to convince her party she knows what she's doing, these are the men and women she refuses to meet.

Last week, nuclear veteran families held a reunion, and wrote her some messages. 1/plenty
Julie Soan, whose dad took part in firing the biggest weapon Britain's ever had, Operation Grapple Y, in 1958: "I seek justice for him." Image
David Witcomb, who was on National Service when ordered to Christmas Island after it had been covered by radioactive fallout. "Please, before we are all gone." Image
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Sep 22
Well well well well well.

This is worth a thread and no mistake.
The Shadow Attorney General wants to know what the Foreign Office has been using its credit cards for.

It went from annual spending of around £24m suddenly to £35m from September 2021.

Liz Truss was appointed Foreign Sec on Sept 15 2021.
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Sep 5
Johnny, @JPAOwen and unnamable others have had their shoulder to the wheel on this for weeks as Boris' time in office ticked down, working against the clock.

These men were brutally mistreated, for decades, while keeping us safe. Story here: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Should be said, one jarring point in the letter - these servicemen kept 100s of millions of people safe. But they were following grossly negligent orders.

And no-one kept indigenous people in Australia, Nevada, or Kiritimati safe. They don't get medals. They just get radiation.
Servicemen were knowingly and intentionally exposed. Records were never kept, or 'lost'. Brown people were treated even worse, whether Commonwealth soldiers or locals. And all so the British PM could take tea with the US president and not have to worry about the Russian one.
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