What price military discipline now?

A soldier disciplined by the army after missing a parade to look after her daughter is set to receive damages after winning an employment tribunal claim. Tilern DeBique, 28, said she was forced to leave her job because she was unable to organise childcare. The former corporal, who was recruited on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, won a claim of sexual discrimination following a hearing at the central London employment tribunal yesterday. DeBique was told she was expected to be available for duty at all times and that the army was "unsuitable for a single mother who couldn't sort out her childcare arrangements", the tribunal heard.

She was formally disciplined after failing to turn out on a parade in January 2007 so she could look after her daughter, the Daily Mail reported. A month earlier, she missed training after her daughter fell ill.

After leaving the army in 2008, she launched employment tribunal proceedings and won her claim for sexual discrimination.

The lunatics again run the asylum. I don't mean the idiots on the London Employment Tribunal, but your MP, and mine, whose laxed scrutiny of the laws passed by this corrupt Government meant that this law was enacted from Europe without being derogated. Look it up. It means the British Government does not have to enact certain laws if that law is against national interest. The soft minded politicians on all side appear to think that Europe is wonderful, yet most European Countries have derogated laws which take military legislation out of normal action. They at least, realise you don't have normal laws for an abnormal regime.