A senior serving general has reportedly warned that a Jeremy Corbyn government could face "a mutiny" from the Army if it tried to downgrade them.

The unnamed general said members of the armed forces would begin directly and publicly challenging the labour leader if he tried to scrap Trident, pull out of Nato or announce “any plans to emasculate and shrink the size of the armed forces.”

He told the Sunday Times: “The Army just wouldn’t stand for it. The general staff would not allow a prime minister to jeopardise the security of this country and I think people would use whatever means possible, fair or foul to prevent that. You can’t put a maverick in charge of a country’s security.

“There would be mass resignations at all levels and you would face the very real prospect of an event which would effectively be a mutiny.”

Haven't the Tories been making astronomically larger cuts on defense than Labour ever has?

Quote from: LC on September 20, 2015, 05:33:10 PM

Quote from: A E S T H E T I C S on September 20, 2015, 05:29:46 PM

Haven't the Tories been making astronomically larger cuts on defense than Labour ever has?

Idk, just seems a bit juvenile to consider 'mutineering' at this point.

Same thing happens in the US. Some military official doesn't like who the darn dirty civvies elected as president so they threaten to go AWOL.

It's really just a grown mans temper tantrum and nothing will actually happen.

While I agree this is a pretty infantile response, Corbyn's populist rhetoric is definitely something to take caveat over.

The guy described members of Hezbollah as 'friends' and thinks we can operate as a sovereign nation with a completely castrated military for fuck sake.