Does Faye Turney selling her story to a tabloid for £100, 000 make you lose all sympathy?

Question

...because, although it makes me feel bad, it does me....

Answer 1

What about the hundreds of dead and wounded service personnel who have suffered in the war in Iraq; a war that was illegal and which contributed to the seizing of hostages by the Iranians? Their unpaid stories struggle for space in the national press.

Name, rank and number was once the only information provided to the enemy by armed services personnel. Whatever happened to British stoicism?

Answer 2

My own opinion is two fold. Firstly having spent most of my adult life in the army I find it wrong that anyone makes money out tabloids because they have survived an ordeal. There are alot of grieving parents, wives, children out there who will be living hand to mouth trying to claim a decent pension from the MOD who at every opportunity stop paying out to widows and orphans. When you join the military, your job is basically kill or be killed, that's the bottom line. You train, go to war, follow orders and that's why you're their. On the day she signed for her 100K, 6 more british an 10 more american and 6 canadian families had the knock at the door telling them their son or daughter was a hero but unfortunately won't be coming home and this months pay cheque will probably be the last one for a while.#
Secondly, I have a real feeling in my water that the stories won't be 100% true and that the MOD and Govt spin doctors will write the basics to try and regain some of the propoganda they lost by the release of the 15.
I am delighted these young people are home safe and sound but I do think they should appreciate that and look into their hearts and think about the families who won't be having that celebration, the only thing they will get is a beret, a medal and heartbreak.

Answer 3

I don't think anyone objects to the 15 telling 'their side of the story' it's just the oodles of dosh that seems so unfair especially to other military personnel. think of all the guys and girls who have lost their lives, or who haven't been captured but still endure months away from home, horrendous conditions etc. it's a bad show. the mod should have released a statement for the press giving their side of things and not let any of the 15 be turned into celebrities. they were, after all, just doing their job - badly it would seem.
Also, how long has she been free? only a few days and yet is she at home being with her daughter? No sympathy I'm afraid, just a woman who had a baby, no way a mother .

Answer 4

I think it's disgraceful!! Not only the tabloids but she will be on 'Tonight with Trevor McDonald' as well, how much will she get for that?? No wonder she wasn't at the press conference......she was too busy trying to make money off it!!.....How will the the families of the 4 BRAVE soldiers who died the day these cowards came home and have been pushed to the 'small print' and forgotten feel????
As for the tabloids I suppose it was the only way she was going to get in them as she is hardly page 3 material is she??
I think the whole episode stinks and has to be the final straw when Blair can allow this sort of profiteering to go on whilst our Brave soldiers are still fighting and families are losing loved one's who wil NEVER be able to tell their story....let alone make money from it

Answer 5

Yes, I heard it was £150k for doing her job, and not very well it would seem. Ken Bigley, and many others have died in Iraq. This episode made Britain, The Navy and the fifteen look weak and ineffective. Not a basis for extra reward, but then, the media are worse than the enemy, and the stories will be sexed up to provide an excuse for the behaviour of the fifteen and to try to justify poor navy strategy. In fact, it is likely that politicians and senior Navy staff have encouraged this course of action for their own purposes, after all, their approval was needed.

Answer 6

Yes it does make me lose sympathy! Anyone would think they were in Iraq or the Gaza Strip for god's sake. There was no way that the Iranians would have executed them this would have been too politically sensitive. They were always going to be released, the question was imply when?

They have really brought the armed forces into disrepute and I bet you that the woman who gets a 6 figure sum will now leave the Navy and live off her earnings.
Next she will be getting bravery awards!

Answer 7

I'm absolutely amazed that these released hostages can be so crass. Soldiers who have been badly injured are still waiting for some sort of derisory payout. I doubt if the families of soldiers who have been killed will get anything.
The fact that the MOD has agreed to this is nothing short of perverse. I shall change my mind though if they donate the cash received to military charities.

Answer 8

as a replace of sending her vegetation, have vegetation (or a plant, tea and cookies, etc.) with a card waiting for her whilst she returns to artwork. After coping with any form of loss, that first day lower back on the activity is often so difficult. Coming in and searching a small present on your table, and understanding that somebody continues to be questioning of you is an outstanding thank you to return to the on an commonplace basis grind of existence.

Answer 9

any sympathy i had for this creature has gone she is a money grabbing low life who has profited out of a fiasco she tarnishes the memory of our fallen comrades by selling her pathetic story many soldiers have experienced unpleasant situations during their careers and would not even consider selling stories does this now mean that the official secrets act is dead and we will see a flood pf stories coming out this woman has no honour or courage and she should now be discharged

Answer 10

Hasn't the British Navy and Marines lost it's pride allowing

this woman to make a quick buck.

Perhaps now she will leave the service and bring up her child

properly instead of abandoning it to gallivant in a naval

destroyer predominately full of men, that kind of job is o.k for

single women without children, some women will do anything

rather than bring up their children.I for one won't be buying the

rag that prints the story.