It’s just acceptable is it ?

It's not acceptable and should be condemned.

However, as Anniebach said, this is not the first time this has happened and it's not just the army doing this either. I believe that a shooting range chose to have a photo of Shamima Begum as their target, along with images of Osama Bin Laden, Adolf Hitler and Margaret Thatcher.

Apparently it is just light-hearted fun including for children - would you believe.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/27/shooting-range-fire-puts-target-face-shamima-begum/

Sorry Trisher Missed your comment which already included the point about the police.

Gonegirl Only if you believe everything you read online. He also wants to improve aftercare for soldiers which at present is disgraceful. He also wants to cut wars and interventions and that might lead to a reduction in the need for such a large force but it is not a policy just to make cuts to the military for ideological reasons. The Police have not used May for target practice despite her cuts in the force.
Is the continual increase in Defence funding really justifiable?

Do soldiers have to be brutalised to be good at soldiering? I know that the job of soldiers is often to kill people, and I cannot think of how else one can be trained to kill people unless one is brutalised.

The footage was also on Sky news this morning.

It’s all over social media - I made a deliberate decision not to share

Given it’s your hero JC you must forgive me for taking your explanation as your being an apologist . The first word you used was ‘unpleasant’ then you said that you knew that sort of thing went on and finally finally you used the word wrong’. Well done

maryeliza where is this "footage"?

Yes it is wrong , I am not defending them just explaining why they may have chosen Corbyn,

And if they do/did it would be damn well wrong ab wrong wrong wrong.

Not acceptable. I don’t think any images of real people should be used. I thought they had generic drawn images if the enemy to use,

Perhaps the police do trisher

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This is not acceptable anytime, any place, anywhere. Not a good example for our younger generation. It’s just encouraging violence.

Ah! just read AB's post. Perhaps understandable then?

I think that is awful!!!

And that's a justification for pretending to kill him is it Annie Really? Perhaps the police should be shooting at pictures of Theresa May then given the damage she's actually done.

Corbyn has not been supportive of the British Army, during the Falklands he called the army ‘the unemployed ‘ . He wants to reduce the number in the armed forces , they want to keep their jobs

In view of all the knife crimes that are being carried out and when you see this sort of thing going on you have to question why not enough is being done to prevent murders in this country ? Is it okay to have killing in mind ?

There’s also for me the issue that they thought they were beyond normal acceptable behaviour and army discipline and could behave with impunity. And we give men with such arrogance and ill judgement weapons of destruction. The senior soldier in charge of the firing range must be a piece of work

NOT ACCEPTABLE ?

It’s what they do, unpleasant to see though , I have seen it done on army firing ranges for many years

OMG it's a bit unbelievable isn't it. On the same day that someone is being tried for plotting to murder MP Rosie Cooper, British soldiers are using the Leader of the Opposition's picture for target practice! The prospect of right wing extremism gaining power is getting more plausible.

It just shows what our society is made up of---------idiots !!

It isn't acceptable to use any recognisable public figure as a 'target'. This is appalling. But probably 'the lads' though it was a big joke...