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Source: Labour Party – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Tomorrow never comes for veterans

Iain Lees-Galloway  | 
Thursday, June 13, 2013 – 16:03

Minister Michael Woodhouse is quick off the mark when it comes to leading overseas trips but tortoise-like when it comes to making meaningful changes to war pensions that veterans are still waiting for, Labour’s Veteran Affairs spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway says.

“Last year, then Veteran Affairs Minister Nathan Guy, announced that legislation implementing a number of the recommendations contained in a Law Commission review of the War Pensions Act was imminent and could be expected in early 2013.

“Today we have the current Minister, Michael Woodhouse, saying it will still happen – but just ‘sometime this term’.

“The reality is that every time the Government makes a new announcement the timeline is pushed further out.

“It is absolutely unreasonable to expect veterans to wait any longer. Action is long overdue and platitudes just don’t cut it.

“The Government is always full of promises that it is going to do something one day.

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“The problem with committing to do things tomorrow is that tomorrow never comes.”

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