WAR veterans hit out yesterday at a nameless general’s apparent threat of a coup against Jeremy Corbyn should he become prime minister.

The serving general said the new Labour leader’s victory had been greeted with “direct action” and warned there would be “mass resignations at all levels and a “very real prospect of an event which would effectively be a mutiny.”

But Veterans for Peace (VfP) co-ordinator Ben Griffin and Afghan vet Joe Glenton, also a VfP member, attacked the comments in the Sunday Times.

Mr Griffin said: “He is threatening the democratic will of the people, exposing the lie that the armed forces exist to protect our freedoms.”

Mr Glenton said the general should be identified and court martialled for his comments.

But, writing in the Independent he also warned the “politically illiterate” general to brush up on his history.

Pointing to Russia in 1917, the English revolution and Hugo Chavez in 2002, he said: “It’s often the blustering tyrant who gets the chop in such situations, particularly when common soldiers decide to write their own script.”