LAND FIT FOR HEROES

In my opinion, one of Tories biggest betrayal. They knew very well what the situation was. You do not tell people "Land Fit For Heroes"  who went through the worst in the trenches and just come back hoping for a good life. They were roaming the streets by the thousands, starving and begging. Yet, the Government did nothing as always.

WW1 TRENCHES...

After the First World War the promise of the Prime Minister David Lloyd George was 'A land fit for heroes'. The reality was a major industrial chaos with disruptive strikes. Soldiers decided to form their own union with demands of demobilisation, better food, equipment and housing. The country was heading towards a revolution. Even the police joined in the strike and stopped guarding 10 Downing Street.

This was 1919 and the Establishment and the country were shaken by the core. The country faced widespread aunemployment and food shortage. When the soldiers and police joined in, it got the politicians shaking and that shows you how bad it was.

Winston Churchill was to become the Secretary of War. He was hated by the soldiers after the bloodbath in the trenches on the Western Front. He wanted to start a new war with Russia. Since 1917 Russia became a Bolshevist country, Churchill thought it was a great threat to peace and security.

Churchill ordered 2000 soldiers to embark, for overseas service, at the ports in Kent. The soldiers refused and marched instead to Folkestone Town Hall where nervous politicians quickly organised the demobilisation.

After that new orders were for the men to embark but the Soldiers' Union refused. Incoming troops from Europe joined them because they came back from the front and saw the carnage. The demand was demobilisation, shorter working hours, end to training, abolition of compulsory church parade and most of all cancellation of embarkation to Russia.

The Royal Navy joined in.

On the other side of the channel disillusioned British soldiers formed the Calais Area Soldiers' and Sailors' Association. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig was furious and demanded for ring leaders to be shot.

He was very much hated by the soldiers in the First World War because he believed in sending the men ‘over the top’ were the only way to achieve victory.

Churchill sent secret messages to his army chiefs still trying to persuade them and the army to fight the Bolshevists in Russia. However, the soldiers refused. The Government was on its highest alarm. The police also joined in.

I think that is the only way to stop war and I mean any war.  I think by now we all had enough of it.  Guard the borders by all means.  No country wants to be taken over.