{"id":79202,"date":"2018-05-02T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79202"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:45:47","slug":"matt-lynch-tory-candidate-in-limbo-over-veteran-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79202","title":{"rendered":"Matt Lynch Tory candidate in limbo over veteran claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Matt-Lynch-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Matt-Lynch-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Matt-Lynch-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Matt-Lynch.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/amp\/uk-england-sussex-43967715\">BBC<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Steven Flynn who served with the 3rd Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War] made his own inquiries with former servicemen and said: &#8220;To this day no one knows of him [Lynch].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an insult to most people and their families. There were men who died on Mount Longdon who never saw their newborn baby. It&#8217;s an insult to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Conservative Party spokesman said: &#8220;Matthew Lynch has been suspended pending an investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His name will still appear on the ballot papers in the St Helen&#8217;s ward, as the latest date for withdrawal has now passed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lynch hasn&#8217;t responded to BBC&#8217;s request for an interview &#8211; the election is scheduled for tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BBC, Conservative candidate Matt Lynch claimed to have been in the paratroopers for 12 &hellip; <a title=\"Matt Lynch Tory candidate in limbo over veteran claims\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79202\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matt Lynch Tory candidate in limbo over veteran claims<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}