Former British soldiers have responded fiercely to ex-military MPs who attacked their satirical anti-war art project. The ex-services group accused them of being ‘self-appointed veterans’ champions’ who ‘trade off the backs of ordinary soldiers’. Veterans for Peace UK endorsed the ‘Army: Be the Meat’ artwork, originally commissioned by military veterans in 2015, to highlight issues relating to poor treatment of veterans. However, two former military officers, now MPs, criticised the art in the Sun newspaper. It appears neither they nor the paper realised that the project was actually endorsed by hundreds of veterans. Dan Jarvis told the paper the display was ‘extremely disrespectful to our armed forces and utterly unacceptable that those who have been injured in military service should be pilloried in this way.’