Help For Heroes But What About The Others

[BDG]

The Royal British Legion is there to help ex-services no matter when they served. It is a charity funded through the poppy appeal, donations, fund raising through its clubs, retail, legacy and so on. I think Help for Heros should be merged into the RBL - having more than one charity serving the same group of people means more money wasted on admin, more confusion over who does what and so on.

With regards to the 'supergrass' that the chap I was talking about was labled by someone else in another thread, the guy I remember was recruited by Army Intel to go and and join the IRA. He was on the Army payroll before joining the IRA - no different really to someone joining the army intel and going undercover.

That said, plenty of ex IRA have weapons for personal protection. I think we would be doing a disservice to our own humanity to let people be murdered on the streets, let alone the problems it would cause with the peace process. Just to be clear, I do not support the IRA in any way whatsoever - I have two Rangers shirts and whistle The Sash.