Letist ratbastards are obsessed with smearing returning war-heroes. How can we allow this?
Bigger than the Mandelson scandal:
British war heroes’ fury at Lord Hermer over ‘witch-hunt based on lies’
War heroes have slammed Keir Starmer’s closest adviser for pursuing legal claims against Iraq veterans despite being warned they were lies.
Richard Hermer, the Attorney General, pursued the ‘witch hunt’ against British troops when he was a senior lawyer in 2008.
Soldiers who had served their country on the battlefield were hounded with false allegations that they had tortured and murdered civilians after the 2004 Battle of Danny Boy in southern Iraq.
Emails have now revealed that Lord Hermer was warned the claims were ‘nonsense’, and even expressed his own doubts.
In one astonishing message to colleague Martyn Day, a leading human rights lawyer, the Attorney backed moves to publicise the lawsuits during an interview on Radio 4’s Today programme – noting it must leave ‘some wiggle room if the killings did not in fact happen’.
The publicity drive was part of an effort to secure taxpayer-funded compensation settlements before their Iraqi clients were exposed as liars at the Al-Sweady inquiry in 2014.
A spokesman for Lord Hermer insisted he was not aware that his clients were telling ‘deliberate lies’ until long afterwards.
However, Military Cross winner Brian Wood, who was among the soldiers falsely accused of war crimes by Lord Hermer’s clients, called on the Attorney General to resign.
He told the Daily Telegraph: ‘I have gone through hell for years. It’s disgusting that Hermer is Attorney General. He pursued us in a witch hunt and yet is now the senior lawyer in Government. That is just wrong…he was representing the people trying to kill us.’
Iraq veteran Philip Ingram backed the resignation demand and described Lord Hermer’s actions as ‘absolutely disgusting’.
‘I think this is even bigger than the Mandelson scandal,’ he said. ‘Keir Starmer‘s closest advisor was clearly trying to get more clients to fuel his ego and fill his pockets, even while rightly suspecting their claims were false.
‘It’s quite clear that he knew it was total nonsense, but was pushing it with no consideration the dreadful impact these lawsuits had on the soldiers who had put their lives on the line.
‘It seemed to be almost a sport to him. It’s lower than low. This individual is not fit to hold a British passport, never mind to be the Attorney General providing advice to our country.
‘You can understand why this country is in such a mess, when we’ve got a Prime Minister who doesn’t have any principles and relies on advice from his people like Lord Hermer.’
He added that the Attorney, who also argued on behalf of charity Liberty that jihadi bride Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK, is ‘anti-British’ and ‘a danger to this country’.
Mr Ingram, who retired with the rank of colonel after a 26-year career in the Armed Forces, was a senior officer responsible for interrogations in Iraq. He said the suggestion that troops were harming or murdering civilians is ‘obviously nonsense’.
‘We went over the top in making sure that our interrogations met human rights standards,’ he said. ‘I had one eye on law the whole time I was there, it’s something that [soldiers] always consider carefully.
‘Sadly, thanks to people like Lord Hermer, we have to spend the rest of our lives looking over our shoulder.’
Last night, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accused Lord Hermer of ‘dragging British troops through the courts’.
‘The troops were innocent. Keir Starmer’s judgement is not,’ she said.
Tory justice spokesman Nick Timothy added: ‘Lord Hermer is a disgrace. And the fact that Keir Starmer brought him into government tells you everything you need to know about the PM.’
Welcome to “Modern Britain”.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) April 5, 2026
Where police can come enter your home, tell you you’re about to be arrested for “Facebook commments”, before proceeding to put on gloves to search you for “dangerous items”.pic.twitter.com/QvJlKVJoht
The UK has abandoned free speech. It joins several other European countries that don’t have constitutional protection of speech. In the UK, your “free” speech is whatever a judge says it is. It’s a shame to see this spiral out of control.
