{"id":19372,"date":"2013-03-02T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19372"},"modified":"2013-03-02T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T15:31:15","slug":"if-we-cannot-care-for-those-who-suffer-in-the-aftermath-of-war-then-we-shouldnt-take-part-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/02\/if-we-cannot-care-for-those-who-suffer-in-the-aftermath-of-war-then-we-shouldnt-take-part-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If we cannot care for those who suffer in the aftermath of war then we shouldn&#8217;t take part in it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2013\/mar\/02\/defence-secretary-resist-cuts\" target=\"_blank\"> the Guardian notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The defence secretary,\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Philip Hammond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/philip-hammond\">Philip Hammond<\/a>, has warned that he will resist further cuts to the armed forces in George Osborne's forthcoming spending review.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Daily Telegraph that other Tory cabinet ministers believed the greatest burden of any cuts should fall on the welfare budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if this\u00a0wealthy\u00a0man has any clue as to how many ex-service people end up on benefits and in real need?<\/p>\n<p>Last year the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-2165867\/The-Plight-Homeless-Ex-Servicemen-Please-read-carefully--all.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mail suggested maybe 100,000 <\/a>ex service personnel were homeless.<\/p>\n<p>And tens and maybe hundreds of thousands carry the physical and\u00a0mental\u00a0scars of service.<\/p>\n<p>Hammond appears not to know this and\u00a0wants\u00a0to cut their care.<\/p>\n<p>I say if we cannot care for those at home we have no right going to war. And that as a result Hammond is unfit for the job he is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian notes: The defence secretary,\u00a0Philip Hammond, has warned that he will resist further cuts to the armed forces in George Osborne&#8217;s forthcoming spending<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/02\/if-we-cannot-care-for-those-who-suffer-in-the-aftermath-of-war-then-we-shouldnt-take-part-in-it\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}