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Defence minister Tom Watson said there would only be a maximum sentence of life where desertion was "to avoid relevant service".
That would exclude things like military occupation of a foreign country.
Relevant service operations would be "the ones which every member of the force needs to have complete confidence in the other members of his unit,"
Let me get this right, relevent service is not the occupation of a foreign country, but it
is when you need to be completely confident in your work mates (like when they're your safety man on a functional test, keeping an eye on you on the line, not taxying over you on the pan, getting your pay right so you don't lose your house, going to war etc).
Politicians, what a waste of oxygen.
