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 Gordon Brown has been told to bring our troops home by the sister of a Manchester soldier killed in action.
Karla Ellis who marched with Stop the War calling for troops out of Afghanistan last month told Gordon Brown the truth about Afghanistan.
Karla's, whose brother Lee was killed in Iraq, confronted Gordon Brown over the war on local radio, and on Sky TV. She told the Prime Minister on a radio show that the Government's strategy in Afghanistan was not working. Her brother, Pte Lee Ellis, 23, was killed by a roadside bomb while serving with the paras in Iraq in 2006.
"The war in Afghanistan is being referred to as the American and British equivalent of Vietnam, only in this war, we are now providing the invisible enemy with arms. How many of our under equipped soldiers have to die before the powers that be do the right thing instead of trying to save face and bring them home?" she told Brown on Sky TV. He struggled to answer.
Karla is one of a growing number from military families upset and angry, and prepared to speak out and demand change.
'I got no help from the MOD when my brother was killed,' she explained. 'When you lose a sibling you lose part of your past, your present and the future. After Lee was killed I was really down, like in a well. Now I am trying to turn the negative energy into something positive.
'I have helped set up a 1940's style pin up calender. On Remembrance Sunday I have organised a Boutique event at a club in Manchester.'
All funds raised go to a Sibling Support Group, and to support a network, Honour Our Troops. which puts on music events for soldiers their friends and families.
Sunday 8th November, 'Lest We Forget' Boutique Night at Boutique Bar and Club, 18-22 Lloyd Street, Off Deansgate, Manchester, M2 5WA.
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