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Ukip leader says “no one should join British army” until we have left the EU

Ukip leader Gerard Batten has appealed to potential army recruits to wait until Britain has left the European Union to join the services.  The recently-appointed leader issued a bizarre statement today saying British soldiers are “no longer fighting for Queen and Country but under a foreign military command”.  He said “no one should now join the […]

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
September 4, 2018
in News, Politics

Ukip leader Gerard Batten has appealed to potential army recruits to wait until Britain has left the European Union to join the services. 

The recently-appointed leader issued a bizarre statement today saying British soldiers are “no longer fighting for Queen and Country but under a foreign military command”. 

He said “no one should now join the British Army until we have left the EU”, citing Theresa May’s apparent intentions to tie us into the EU’s military ambitions. 

Read the statement in full below: 

“Nick Clegg once said that the idea the EU was developing its own military was a ‘dangerous fantasy’. This news has revealed Nick Clegg to be the fantasist. 

“No one should now join the British Army until we have left the EU and this has all been reversed. Our soldiers are no longer fighting for Queen and Country but under a foreign military command. 

“Our ancestors, the heroes of The Armada, Waterloo, Trafalgar, Passchendaele, El-Alamein, and others too numerous to mention, did not fight so that their descendants could serve under the flag of a foreign power. Mrs May has already stated her intention to tie us into the EU’s military ambitions even if we nominally leave under her plan. 

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“The sooner we are out of the EU, the sooner we will be able to rebuild our military into a force which serves the interests of our nation first and foremost. Meanwhile British men and women should vote with their feet and not join the armed forces.” 

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Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE).He has contributed articles to The Sunday Telegraph, BBC News and writes for The Big Issue on a weekly basis.Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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  1. Grant StClair-Armstrong says:
    1 year ago

    Would you be a Remainer, I wonder? How is it a bizarre statement exactly? Seems to me to be rather logical. I am a Vet and I joined the RAF in 1971 to serve my Queen and Country, not unelected and corrupt scum in the EU.

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