Reply to: 84-year-old gurkha gets to stay in uk

[Mailman]

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The relief, oh the relief.

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[Mailman]

Now you know how we all feel when reading your dribble

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[sasguru]

Peow Peow guru!

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It's like being attacked by a slug on Prozac.

[Mailman]

Anyway what happened to you Mailman? You don't seem to be the villaage idiot anymore. Mind you the competition has got a lot stiffer recently.

Some things I do take seriously...for everything else there is Mastercard!

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[Mailman]

You have set such a high standard

Peow Peow guru!

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[wizard1974uk]

You have set such a high standard

Some where a bridge is missing its troll.

[Troll]

You don't seem to be the villaage idiot anymore. Mind you the competition has got a lot stiffer recently.

You have set such a high standard

[Troll]

Its a cut and paste off google

Mailman

Brigade of Gurkhas history page actualy

[sasguru]

So I conclude that all Troll's posts are random pieces of tulipe with no logic whatsoever

Anyway what happened to you Mailman? You don't seem to be the villaage idiot anymore. Mind you the competition has got a lot stiffer recently.

[Mailman]

Doesn't all this go against the spirit of your first posts?

Its a cut and paste off google

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[sasguru]

Shushh dullard

pot, kettle ....

[Troll]

Doesn't all this go against the spirit of your first posts?

Shushh dullard

[sasguru]

In addition to the enormous manpower made available there were many personal gestures on the part of the Minister and Court of Nepal. Large sums of money for the purchase of weapons and equipment, including money for the provision of fighter aircraft during the Battle of Britain, were presented as gifts from Nepal. Considerable sums of money were also donated to the Lord Mayor of London during the Blitz for the relief of victims in the dockland area. An equally generous response was made to a variety of appeals for aid – all this from a country which was then, and still is by western standards, desperately poor.

The spirit of this friendship can best be illustrated by the reply made to the Prime Minister of Nepal to the British Minister in Kathmandu after the fall of France in 1940. When Britain stood alone.

Permission was sought to recruit an additional 20 battalions for the Gurkha Brigade, and for Gurkha troops to be allowed to serve in any part of the world. This was readily granted by the Prime Minister who remarked, “Does a friend desert a friend in time of need? If you win, we win with you. If you lose, we lose with you”. The whole of the Nepalese Army was again placed at the disposal of the British Crown.

Doesn't all this go against the spirit of your first posts?

[Troll]

BUT, I go back to an earlier posting of mine, what Im REALLY interested in is the thinking that went in to the original declined request. What weight did the moron attach to the fact this guy HAD fought for King and Country and was awarded the highest military honour in the world. How is this NOT demonstrating a link back to this country?

Mailman

In addition to the enormous manpower made available there were many personal gestures on the part of the Minister and Court of Nepal. Large sums of money for the purchase of weapons and equipment, including money for the provision of fighter aircraft during the Battle of Britain, were presented as gifts from Nepal. Considerable sums of money were also donated to the Lord Mayor of London during the Blitz for the relief of victims in the dockland area. An equally generous response was made to a variety of appeals for aid – all this from a country which was then, and still is by western standards, desperately poor.

The spirit of this friendship can best be illustrated by the reply made to the Prime Minister of Nepal to the British Minister in Kathmandu after the fall of France in 1940. When Britain stood alone.

Permission was sought to recruit an additional 20 battalions for the Gurkha Brigade, and for Gurkha troops to be allowed to serve in any part of the world. This was readily granted by the Prime Minister who remarked, “Does a friend desert a friend in time of need? If you win, we win with you. If you lose, we lose with you”. The whole of the Nepalese Army was again placed at the disposal of the British Crown.

[Mailman]

This is at the heart of the problem - are the Gurkhas mercenaries or equal partners in the British Army- & it looks like they are using the discrimination legisation to force the changes

but the original terms of service were quite clear

The Gurkhas are an established part of the British Army and have been since 1947 (although their history extends back another 100 odd years further back than that).

And being a contractor I know you will be fully conversant with contracts where sections are added that you have no control over. Somehow I doubt when India and Britain was negotiating independence that the Gurkhas actually had any say in whether they would be or not be second class soldiers in the British Army.

BUT, I go back to an earlier posting of mine, what Im REALLY interested in is the thinking that went in to the original declined request. What weight did the moron attach to the fact this guy HAD fought for King and Country and was awarded the highest military honour in the world. How is this NOT demonstrating a link back to this country?

Mailman