{"id":182249,"date":"2015-11-08T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/08\/jeremy-corbyn-goes-there\/"},"modified":"2015-11-08T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T02:07:00","slug":"jeremy-corbyn-goes-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/08\/jeremy-corbyn-goes-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Corbyn Goes There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He just (rightly, IMNSHO) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/international\/europe\/2015\/11\/08\/uk-labour-leader-accuses-military-chief-political-bias\/75420156\/\">accused Britain&#8217;s Chief of the Defence Staff General Nicholas Houghton of attempting to meddle in civilian politics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the country&#8217;s armed forces chief on Sunday of taking sides in the hot button political issue of overhauling Britain&#8217;s nuclear weapons program.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gen. Nicholas Houghton earlier on Remembrance Sunday, when Britain commemorates its war dead, said he was &#8220;worried&#8221; by Corbyn&#8217;s vow never to press the &#8220;nuclear button&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Corbyn issued a statement expressing &#8220;serious concern&#8221; over Houghton&#8217;s statement, calling on Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to &#8220;take action.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;It is a matter of serious concern that the chief of the defence staff has today intervened directly in issues of political dispute,&#8221; said Corbyn, who is opposed to a revamp of Britain&#8217;s nuclear weapons system, Trident.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;It is essential in a democracy that the military remains politically neutral at all times,&#8221; said the Labour leader.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Corbyn is right, of course, Houghton&#8217;s behavior is unacceptable in a democracy, particularly when juxtaposed with long time rumors of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harold_Wilson_conspiracy_theories\">military preparations for a coup in 1974<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One hopes that Houghton will learn his lesson, and shut the f%$# up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He just (rightly, IMNSHO) accused Britain&#8217;s Chief of the Defence Staff General Nicholas Houghton of attempting to meddle in civilian politics: British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the country&#8217;s armed forces chief on Sunday of taking sides in the hot button political issue of overhauling Britain&#8217;s nuclear weapons program.Gen. Nicholas Houghton earlier on Remembrance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1006,1044,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","category-nuclear-weapons","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}