British General (THE VOICE OF REASON) Threatens a Military Coup if Looney-Lefty Corbyn Gets Elected!
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2015
…….The
ascension of (pro-EU, loonie-lefty)
Jeremy Corbyn to the head of Britain's Labour party has led at least one
senior serving general to predict that a Corbyn government would face the very
real possibility of a military "mutiny".
Here's more from The Independent:
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.”
The
general, who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, said he and many
soldiers were sickened by Mr Corbyn’s refusal to condemn the IRA, which killed
730 troops and injured 7,000 more during the conflict. (DAMN RIGHT)
His shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, was forced
to apologise when it was revealed he had called for IRA members, including
hunger striker Bobby Sands, to be honoured by the British government. (WAS HE REALLY!)
The
general said: “Many soldiers are disgusted by the comments of Corbyn and
John McDonnell [about] the IRA — men who have not only murdered British
soldiers but also hundreds of members of their own community.”
Meanwhile,
the Ministry of Defence is not happy, and neither, apparently, are Corbyn's
political opponents who seemingly would prefer to live with a Corbyn government
than see Britain relegated to the status of a mid-20th century South American
banana republic. (OH DEAR, POOR
DIDDUMS!)
Here's The Independent again:
“You
can’t have serving officers effectively threatening a coup against an elected
government,” they
said. “This general seems to have forgotten that we live in a democracy.” A
Ministry of Defence source said it was unacceptable for a serving officer to
make political comments about a potential “future government”.
Even some
Conservatives expressed disquiet. The right-wing Tory MEP Daniel Hannan
described the general as an “idiot”. “We’re not Bolivia for God’s sake,” he
said. (WE SOON WILL BE!)
Of course the thing about
military coups is that they don't, by definition, depend upon whether
politicians think they are "idiotic", which is why, in a world where
polls in developed markets seem to suggest that voters' sentiments are
beginning to shift towards the far ends of the political spectrum (see Greece,
Spain, the US, Britain, and Portugal for instance), one certainly wonders what
might happen if, in a desperate attempt to bring about real "change",
voters make a "mistake" that the army decides needs be corrected
outside of the ballot box...
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