Re: The Buck stops but no resignation
It is an interesting article. I've just read it. Ultimately the Minister must take the rap for his decision to allow these two ratings to sell their stories to the media, either by his sanctioning their conduct, or equally by not intervening to prevent them disclosing their stories to the media. As a politician he could have overridden any decision made by the 2SL (if he is indeed really to blame) to permit this at the outset.
The other thing we need to be cognisant of it that sailors of today, having experienced the contemporary education system, are less likely to be as mentally robust as their predecessors, just as when I left school my generation were less robust than those who had been through the process 20 years earlier in the 1950s.
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His statement came as OM Batchelor, the youngest of the captives from HMS Cornwall in Iran, said he was concerned he had disappointed his colleagues by speaking out in a national newspaper.
The 20-year-old told the Plymouth Evening Herald (11 April 2007) that if the Navy had guided him earlier, he would not have accepted payment for his account and said he was "scared of a backlash" following his deal with the Daily Mirror.
His statement came as OM Batchelor, the youngest of the captives from HMS Cornwall in Iran, said he was concerned he had disappointed his colleagues by speaking out in a national newspaper.
The 20-year-old told the Plymouth Evening Herald (11 April 2007) that if the Navy had guided him earlier, he would not have accepted payment for his account and said he was "scared of a backlash" following his deal with the Daily Mirror.
The other thing we need to be cognisant of it that sailors of today, having experienced the contemporary education system, are less likely to be as mentally robust as their predecessors, just as when I left school my generation were less robust than those who had been through the process 20 years earlier in the 1950s.