Author Nigel Seed

Married and lives in Spain; half way up a mountain with views across orange groves to the Mediterranean. His books are mostly Historical Fiction or Thrillers

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Panzer Grenadier.
Soon to be an audiobook as well as all the usual formats on Amazon.

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CRIMEA!

1854. Thomas Mason has returned from India where he served throughout the First and Second Sikh wars. He and his companions then join the Rifle Brigade. Britain and France declare war on Russia and the Brigade is sent to the Crimea, a very different war.

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@ThomasEvansAdur So just like the rest of the political class.

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@andie1105 @reformparty_uk Let us know how you get on when applying

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Of course, British soldiers must be accountable for their actions under UK and international law, including the Law of Armed Conflict. They are also rightly expected to comply with the specific Rules of Engagement issued in relation to each operation they are deployed on.

Furthermore, the reporting, legal and judicial tools are already in place to ensure they answer for any violations.

However, I can speak from experience in saying that our soldiers, in the incredible speed and chaos of close battle, are the epitome of professionalism.

Their job is the controlled application of overwhelming violence in an environment in which their enemies are doing their utmost to kill them. This is no Hollywood film or computer game. People die, and as Shakespeare wrote, “…there are few die well that die in a battle.”

In the dust, noise, immediacy, chaos, concussion, smells, trauma and adrenaline that characterise infantry engagements, Britain’s soldiers are unsurpassed in their ability to apply that overwhelming violence in accordance with the Rules of War and their Rules of Engagement.

Anyone who has experienced that sort of engagement relives it over and over and over again. It is at once exhilarating, terrifying and traumatising, and you never lose the horror of hearing the sound that instantly tells you that one of yours has had a bullet rip into their body. Yet, while all that is going on, your training and professionalism are such that you instinctively comply with the Rules of War.

I am not saying that in the heat of battle things do not happen that should not. But for any British lawyer to effectively “hunt” for further tools to go after our service personnel as though it is some sort of intellectual or professional challenge is a grotesquely arrogant and deeply unpatriotic act.

For such a person to become our Prime Minister is deeply concerning.

Keir Starmer appears to be a man who would send British soldiers into battle and then encourage his Attorney General to find inventive ways to prosecute them for doing their job in circumstances that, luckily for him, are completely beyond his comprehension.

I cannot adequately put into words how that makes me feel.
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And here’s the link: - https://t.co/mi65wLUdvE

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@crypto_dragonz Yes

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@MrPitbull07 I truly hope this is true

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@TheBritLad @RSPCA_official About time.

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@RupertLowe10 Time for a national referendum on the topic. To get some actual action.

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@RSPCA_official @PankhurstEM Took you long enough. Now please push hard to achieve this.

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@JohnCleese John. Please put your name behind the push for a complete ban on the practice.

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@RSPCA_official Better to ban the practice altogether, rather than mess around with labels.

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@benonwine Yes. And where the devil is the RSPCA?

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@WillCalverleyUK @Conservatives NFC

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@CatharineHoey Where is the RSPCA in this debate?

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@RupertLowe10 Why is the RSPCA silent on this issue?

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@ClarksonsFarm1 I would not vote for this bunch of incompetents as long as my bum points downwards.

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No Road to Khartoum
From the filthy back streets of Dublin to the deserts of the Sudan to fight for the British Empire.
Found guilty of stealing bread to feed his starving family, Michael McGuire is offered the “Queen’s Hard Bargain”, go to prison or join the Army.