Senior military figures not happy

[crouchpotato1]

Dear Secretary of State,

As retired senior officers of the Crown with experience of senior command, we feel compelled to write to you with a sense of sadness, incredulity and anger having viewed astonishing evidence of the depth and pervasiveness of the racist and intolerant "Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity" ideology being pushed within HM Armed Forces.

We see these facts, as so they are, as the perpetration of monumental self-harming and, as such, a real and present threat to national security that will give aid and comfort to the King's enemies. The sheer scale of what is reported is scarcely believable, and it cannot be ameliorated by small adjustments. It requires root and branch removal and we call upon you to order this, in pursuit of your primary duties to provide for the sure defence of our islands and citizens.

Nothing could be better calculated to destroy the esprit de corps of our armed forces than this poisonous farrago of nonsense or to deter from serving the Crown precisely the type of people most motivated and apt to our high calling. Ours is a tolerant country and this obsessive racialising of everything is both disgusting and reprehensible.

As you spelled out in your Lancaster House speech, correctly in our view, we live in 'pre-war' times; and Britain faces an ominous and darkening international scene, with Armed Forces that are underequipped, undermanned and underfunded, as we were back in the 1930’s.

Among the lunacy of pushing woke ideas around the use of 'gender neutral' pronouns, or allowing male soldiers to wear make-up or flowing locks on parades to accentuate their feminine side, we pick out the wickedness of a policy to dilute security vetting in order to boost representation of ethnic minorities. With Islamism and other extremism rampant, this is nothing short of dangerous madness.

The cry for 'diversity' has been utterly misunderstood. Within a military culture, what is to be sought above everything else is the delivery of ‘Fighting Power’ in order to defeat the King's enemies, together with the greatest uniformity of excellence and diversity of opinion. Nothing else matters. The Memorial Gates on Constitution Hill are an object lesson of the unforced unity in all their diversity of Imperial and Commonwealth Armies in defence of freedom.

To remove Christianity from Acts of Remembrance is also a particular insult to our ancestors who fought and died to lead the world in ending slavery and twice in the last century to save our islands from conquest by extreme regimes. No-one should need to be reminded that this is a welcoming, inclusive and basically Christian country. Our civic culture on 11th November is sacred, Christian, tolerant and inclusive on our terms.

The Russians, Iranians and Chinese will be observing our descent into self-hatred and obsessing over diversity and inclusion with glee. These intolerable policies are forcing the British Armed Forces into moral disarmament and it cannot stand.

We call on you as Secretary of State for Defence immediately to cleanse our military culture of these poisonous ideas and to order a complete reset back to our core values of patriotism and unity that for generations made our armed forces the envy of the world. To preserve and deepen military culture, discipline and efficiency, the Ministry of Defence should be exempted from the Public Sector Equality Duty as specified in the Equality Act 2010.

We are not civil servants but fighting forces.

Yours,

Major General Julian Thompson CB OBE

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Beverly KCB OBE

Brigadier David Chaundler OBE

Major General Tim Cross CBE

Lieutenant General Sir James Dutton KCB CBE

Major General Malcolm Hunt OBE

Colonel Richard Kemp CBE

Rear Admiral Roger Lane-Nott CB

Lieutenant General Sir Hew Pike KCB DSO MBE

Lieutenant General Jonathon Riley DSO MC

Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour OBE

Major General Nick Vaux CB DSO

[mickeythemaestro]

What is happening to our country. The rate of decline is similar to SCFC 😥 😔

[cvillestokie]

Increasing diversity in an armed forces likely improves military readiness by bringing together people with unique cultural and education backgrounds that may see things differently.

A number of arguments have been made to support this. One example is Vietnam. Leadership that understood how the Vietnamese viewed time would have understood that indiscriminate bombing of the land would unify the people, not break them.

However, cutting corners for security is a disaster waiting to happen.

[crouchpotato1]

Feb 12, 2024 13:16:56 GMT mickeythemaestro said:

What is happening to our country. The rate of decline is similar to SCFC 😥 😔

Its incredible mate and getting worse by the week

[prestwichpotter]

Sounds like a load of old bollocks written by a bunch of ageing public school dinosaurs to me......

[Eggybread]

Get rid of the whole bloody lot of them and the world would be a much better place.

[elystokie]

" Our civic culture on 11th November is sacred, Christian, tolerant and inclusive on our terms."

It's not 'Christian' for me, I leave as soon as any prayers or hymn singing starts.

As an atheist ex-servicemen I presume I'm not entirely welcome?

[Seymour Beaver]

The average age of the (old, white) gentlemen in question is about 86.

Whilst they are entitled to their opinion and should not be dismissed, it's the opinion I would expect - aligning with that of my father in law who is 88 and out of touch with this along with just about everything else.

Warfare, technology, society and geopolitics have all changed since these fellas were in uniform and the armed forces need to change with it and it should be left to those in charge now to make those calls.

It was a good read though - I did have to look it up just to make sure it wasn't a spoof.

[Dutchpeter]

There were some alarming infiltrations by undesirables (let’s say) during my time in the Navy, so a dilution of security background checks is just plain crazy. Particularly in the submarine service for example. I’m not a fan of putting females into elite military units where outright strength and fitness standards should not be compromised. The armed forces has a huge challenge moulding effective fighting people from civilians, and I’m afraid that fashionable political ideas aren’t going to help this. We need our service people to be exactly that, not civvies in uniform. If recruits are not made into the ‘right stuff’ then ultimately our forces will fail, because simply people are its biggest asset.

[OldStokie]

I wonder if those generals would have kicked Alan Turing out of Bletchley Park if they'd known he was gay. I also wonder how many soldiers with gender dysphoria lie beneath the white crosses on the battlefields of Europe. Although I believe all forces personnel should be selected because of their abilities and positive discrimination has no place in them, I wouldn't have penned that letter as they have done, which is basically homophobic.

OS.

[longdistancekiddie]

Warmongers

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Feb 13, 2024 0:12:43 GMT longdistancekiddie said:

Warmongers

Armchair warmongers.