"s anyone prepared to quit their job because they disapprove of the work a criminal?"
The Army and the police hold a position of privilege in our society - they rely on the consent that those privileges give them and both are restricted in the actions they are allowed to take - the alternatives are a police or a military state - of course they are not allowed to intervene in Government policy
"But should the government go further and allow troops to enlist in a trade union ... and the right to strike?
It is illegal for a non-civilian member of the armed forces to do either. Britain is not breaching the European convention on human rights which allows for legal exemptions. And the relevant law in the UK is the Queen's Regulations, by which every serviceman and woman is bound."
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Jim Carroll