Matt Lynch Tory candidate in limbo over veteran claims
According to BBC, Conservative candidate Matt Lynch claimed to have been in the paratroopers for 12 years and claimed to be a veteran of the Falkland War, but actual veterans deny that he was there.
[Steven Flynn who served with the 3rd Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War] made his own inquiries with former servicemen and said: “To this day no one knows of him [Lynch].
“It’s an insult to most people and their families. There were men who died on Mount Longdon who never saw their newborn baby. It’s an insult to them.”
A Conservative Party spokesman said: “Matthew Lynch has been suspended pending an investigation.”
His name will still appear on the ballot papers in the St Helen’s ward, as the latest date for withdrawal has now passed.
Lynch hasn’t responded to BBC’s request for an interview – the election is scheduled for tomorrow.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
When contacted for comment, Senator “DICK” Blumenthal was quoted as saying, “I don’t see a probl…wait, he’s conservative? BURN HIS ASS!”
Lawrence Welk is alive and well and living in the UK. Who knew? And a one-a and a two-a…
Looks more like Mitch Miller to me than Lawrence Welk, but YMMV./smile
Yup I was about to follow along with the bouncing ball!
Looks a little like Mitch Miller from the TV 1950’S.
Dammit! I meant Mitch Miller.
SPEW ALERT DUDE, GEEZE US KRISTE!
Your excused 2/17. We only had one TV set and it was in our parents bedroom. Living rooms were for people to get together and talk but not to watch TV we were told. That was old school. we had a radio that we listened to the old radio shows Before the new house that we moved into in 1954 which had the set in the bedroom, our old house had a set that was bought in 1949 or 1950 and I remember the WW2 vets who fought in Italy came over and watched the movie A Walk In The Sun. This set was in the living room.
I’m relatively young but still, our first TV was a General Electric B&W with vacuum tubes.
Every once in a while you had to take the tubes to the drug store for testing on some huge machine and maybe change them out.
Back when there were 5 channels including PBS and one local UHF.
I told my daughters I grew up in B&W, transitioned to Technicolor later on.
Matt Lynch, what a BLOODY WANKER!!!
Is it me, or does that guy bear a more-than-passing resemblance to the late Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – AKA V. I. Lenin?
Never saw a pic of Lenin with a smirk on his mug, but other than that, yeah, he does.
Wasn’t Lenin bald?
Not completely, unless he shaved his head for a particular photo. Many historical photos indicate that Lenin had about as much hair as this guy when was the dictator of the USSR. Lenin just wore his hair trimmed bit shorter than this guy does.
Another fookin’ shirt lifter!
An egregious Englishman.
Loosely translated: Shitbag.
You don’t have to worry about a Lynch mob from Vets about your B.S. over there Matt.
Oh, what a dimwitted schlock merchant he is. Did he really think none of those people who were there knew about any of the rest of the people who were there?
Idiot!
He likes the cock.
He sucketh?
He practices on charged fire hoses.
Voepel’s long lost British cousin … Phony military exploits and politics run in their family.
According to the BBC article linked above, Lynch claims combat service with 2 PARA in the Falklands.
I guess that he thinks that he can convince British voters (and very many still remember the Falklands War) that he served alongside actual Parachute Regiment combat heroes such as Lieutenant Colonel Herbert ‘H’ Jones (Commanding Officer of 2 PARA) and Sergeant Ian McKay (Platoon Sergeant of 4 Platoon, 3 PARA), who were both awarded posthumous Victoria Crosses for their actions in the Falklands.
https://paradata.org.uk/content/falklands-victoria-crosses-0
Hopefully some of the Falklands War combat veterans of the Parachute Regiment will pay Lynch a visit soon so that they can reminisce about ‘old times’ and see how his story holds up.
Wait? So someone says you didn’t serve and thats it? Seems as if a release of your records is in order. Of course the BBC is Liberal as hell so they wouldn’t allow him to show them anyhow.
The story offered no proof. I was once accused of stolen valor because I someone said I didn’t serve. I was super fast to prove them wrong. My point is if all it takes nowadays to ruin someone is to make an accusation with no proof then were all screwed.