[RT] The British commander who led the 1982 task force to the Falkland Islands says he is deeply concerned about the impact a Labour government could have on the security of the South Atlantic islands.Major General Julian Thompson, the Royal Marines officer who led Britannia’s successful military operation against Argentine forces, believes Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party presents a real risk to the security of the islanders.
The Labour leader apparently once called the war, which cost 255 British lives, "a nauseating waste of money and lives" and "one of those crazy conflicts of flag-waving nonsense."
"I felt irritated, to put it mildly," Thompson told the Times.
"Here is a chap who sets himself up as a socialist, and presumably therefore anti-fascist, who was prepared to see British people consigned to spending their lives under the rule of a fascist junta," he said.