Don't You Just Love The Compo Culture?

[youngmafbog]

And I wonder if they will be sued for our deaths and injuries?

http://news.sky.com/story/1175720/fears-uk-is-paying-taliban-compensation-claims

[anotheoldgit]

So that is why the Ministry of Defence have been forced to make all those cuts, mainly to pay 'compo' to our enemies?

One couldn't make it up.

[Zeuhl]

/I wonder if they will be sued for our deaths and injuries?/

What? Apart from the fact that it isn't the Taliban actually making the claims

Just encouraging Afghans to screw around with our processes

I doubt Afghans would know what 'Compo Culture' really means, it is just a surprisingly subtle option for guerilla forces to mess up foreign troops and have people make a few quid as well.

/If, for example, there has been an accident and a vehicle has run over a sheep, clearly the compensation that the British Government will offer is real and the competition for who will get it in some areas can be quite severe./