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**Tobers** · 06-02-2012, 11:46

Labour is to call on the government to set up a £1m fund to monitor the mental health of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and allow charities to bid for the money.

Labour to propose £1m fund for Iraq and Afghan war veterans' mental health | UK news | The Guardian

So you involve Britain in two wars under false pretenses while sacking thousands of members of the Armed Forces, paying them peanuts, giving them homes they wouldn't house asylum seekers in and bankrupting the country to the point that the incoming Government has to slash the defence budget and then try to appear "pro-forces" by suggesting a one million dollar PTSD fund?

Is this a joke? Perhaps service charities would have more to spend if the Government accepted more responsibility to people who get killed or maimed in its wars.

**jarrod248** · 06-02-2012, 11:56

They'll find the staff easy enough, the govt made loads redundant.

**crow_bag** · 06-02-2012, 12:01

£1million doesn't sound like it's stretch very far. However, IF, this was put in place it would only be a good thing.

**Cabana** · 06-02-2012, 12:03

So Labour got us involved in these wars and want us the taxpayer to pay for their generosity of this fund for mental health? Labour should foot the bill themselves.....but they can't because they are virtually bankrupt.

Labour will never change, they will always be snivelling backstabbing slime.

**Blokeonabike** · 06-02-2012, 12:06

A hollow token gesture by a bunch of lying, thieving, cynical and thoroughly amoral barstewards.

**One_of_the_strange** · 06-02-2012, 12:27

A single million - is that all ? Won't even start to match what is being raised already for charities working in this area. And why do we have charities ? When Labour were in power they failed miserably to tackle the job.

Honestly, all I could think of was that bit from Austin Powers where Dr Evil has been frozen for decades and is issuing demands to the US. "I want ... one MILLION dollars" "Oh, OK then, is that all ?"