Reply to: And now they are kicking out the Gurkhas

[bogeyman]

I'm beginning to think you're not very bright Lucy - who's your creator?
Come on Luciferbox we know it's you

Either that, or it's a demented tirade between two personalities inhabiting the the same disordered brain.

Lucy is convinced I am Sasguru and AtW is convinced I'm a tramp who is out to beat him to death with my remaindered copies of the Big Issue.

I don't think it's LB. LB always seemed quite witty and poignant - which neither of the above are, by any stretch of the imagination.

[KathyWoolfe]

Hear, hear!!!

It sounds so much better coming from you Churchill!

[Churchill]

It's all in the grand Labour design - they cannot get rid of the illegal’s so the plan is to generate headlines & elicit sympathy for deserving cases i.e. the Gurkhas and Link warm people up to the idea of 'exceptional circumstances' and then announce an amnesty for the rest of the immigrants

All news management & people are too blind to see what is really going on

Hear, hear!!!

[Benny]

What is this about these men (mostly) served Britain in Hong Kong, and now it doesn't suit the Brownsmen to have them here anymore, what madness and ingratitude.

It's all in the grand Labour design - they cannot get rid of the illegal’s so the plan is to generate headlines & elicit sympathy for deserving cases i.e. the Gurkhas and Link warm people up to the idea of 'exceptional circumstances' and then announce an amnesty for the rest of the immigrants

All news management & people are too blind to see what is really going on

[KathyWoolfe]

There's a lot more to it than just a bunch of people who chose to fight for our country.

That aside, the sentiment of this thread is correct. These guys deserve our respect and financial support and Gordon Brown and his bunch of spineless wet liberal fops we call a government should slope off and leave this country well alone.

All iMHO of course

hear, hear!

[ratewhore]

There's a lot more to it than just a bunch of people who chose to fight for our country.

That aside, the sentiment of this thread is correct. These guys deserve our respect and financial support and Gordon Brown and his bunch of spineless wet liberal fops we call a government should slope off and leave this country well alone.

All iMHO of course

[KathyWoolfe]

The thing that really annoys me is that they were there when this country needed them, even down to the conflict in Iraq etc but now they are no longer required they are just pushed to one side, like a piece of useless / discarded equipment. Where is this countries respect for them, they deserve to have British Citizenship.

"Solent getting off his high horse now"

hear, hear.

[Solent]

The thing that really annoys me is that they were there when this country needed them, even down to the conflict in Iraq etc but now they are no longer required they are just pushed to one side, like a piece of useless / discarded equipment. Where is this countries respect for them, they deserve to have British Citizenship.

"Solent getting off his high horse now"

[BoredBloke]

I think this is really penny pinching at its worst. These blokes served this country and in the whole scheme of things allowing this wouldn't cost anything really.

[Diver]

The immigrants I work with every day are very far from being scrounging. And although these are the pick of the crop, I still think that most immigrants come to work hard and better themselves.
Of course the government also allows in assorted drug-dealers, Somalian warlords and African genocidal leaders.

I did say self serving scrounging immigrants didn't I ?

I should have said self serving or scrounging immigrants. sorry

[sasguru]

The Gurkha ex servicemen and their immediate families have more right to become resident citizens of Britain than any of the scrounging self serving immigrants that this country grants right of citizenship to every day.

The immigrants I work with every day are very far from being scrounging. And although these are the pick of the crop, I still think that most immigrants come to work hard and better themselves.
Of course the government also allows in assorted drug-dealers, Somalian warlords and African genocidal leaders.

[wobbegong]

The Gurkha ex servicemen and their immediate families have more right to become resident citizens of Britain than any of the scrounging self serving immigrants that this country grants right of citizenship to every day.

[AtW]

As manager he had a personal bodyguard of 2 Gurkhas. "So you had a spare", I said, and he nodded. 1 Gurkha is enough for most deadly emergencies.

Well, I don't know about that - I don't think Gurkhas specialise in personal protection, though obviously they are tough boys, but job of a professional bodyguard (not just a tough guy) is very different from their designation which I believe is elite infantry unit.

I certainly think that British citizenship should be given to the deserving - obviously not in those case when it has to be granted automatically. I'd say anyone who serves in the military for this country for 3-5 years in my would qualify for that.

[Diver]

The Gurkha ex servicemen and their immediate families have more right to become resident citizens of Britain than any of the scrounging self serving immigrants that this country grants right of citizenship to every day.

[expat]

What do you call citizens of the country that have to hire others to fight for them in exchange of money?

Those guys were fighting for this country very well - I think their unit never fallen back without order, excellent service during which many of them died. There are very few of them and I think they certainly deserve British Citizenship with pension (however misely it is) more than many of existing British citizens, and in that I include myself - they should have certainly gotten it way before me.

How charming! Citizenship as reward for the deserving.

Face it, most British Citizens are Knuts but they fit the rules so this sceptr'd isle is theirs. And as for American Citizens, don't get me started.

Look, I know who the Gurkhas are. On one contract I was on, I was sitting over pink gins with a English colleague, bemoaning the local and American proteection. He reminisced about havin been on a rubber plantation in Malaya during the emergency. As manager he had a personal bodyguard of 2 Gurkhas. "So you had a spare", I said, and he nodded. 1 Gurkha is enough for most deadly emergencies.