Reply to: Brown loses Gurkha vote

[Menelaus]

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Classic.

[TimberWolf]

A Downing Street spokesman later added: "We've put the country £1.4 trillion in debt, government ministers are chin-deep in sleaze and the cops are beating merry hell out of everyone. We just felt that the obvious next step was to tell thousands of heroic soldiers to go **** themselves."
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politi...-200904301735/

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[AtW]

Chinese are too scared of the Russians. The Russians won WW2 (in Europe).

No they ain't, USSR (Russia) won WW2 in war of attrition by losing more men - this won't work with china since they have like 10 times more men there

[AtW]

The Chinese were complicit in these events.

Excuse me? All the chinese people were taking part in it or just bribed elite?

Feck off - it's one thing to invade country in a fair fight and totally another to use drugs to control the population, that was totally underhand.

why bother when there's large tracts of underpopulated prime land right next to them in Russia for the taking.

That's true, but that's land issue - in terms of revenge they have got pretty big claim here, so STFU and be grateful that former colonies were nice enough to defend British Empire in the time of need.

[swamp]

The Chinese were complicit in these events. Don't tell me that the locals bigwigs didn't profit. China was weak at the time and all the world p!ssed on them. That was their fault for being weak and corrupt. As for some dying - well it's not stopped their population ballooning to 1.2bill. As for them coming here, why bother when there's large tracts of underpopulated prime land right next to them in Russia for the taking.

Chinese are too scared of the Russians. The Russians won WW2 (in Europe).

[Turion]

Look, stop playing idiot - opium wars and stuff like that was totally dishonourable bordering on war crime thing, and it wasn't just some rogue officer who did it, it was Govt policy - just how many Chinese got killed by it, millions?

It is great fortune that China is not at war with UK over such events.

The least this country can do is let in natives who helped sustain British empire for so long - it would not have lasted that long without their help.

The Chinese were complicit in these events. Don't tell me that the locals bigwigs didn't profit. China was weak at the time and all the world p!ssed on them. That was their fault for being weak and corrupt. As for some dying - well it's not stopped their population ballooning to 1.2bill. As for them coming here, why bother when there's large tracts of underpopulated prime land right next to them in Russia for the taking.

[swamp]

Pillaging was one of the tax free job perks back then...

True. Legionnaires made a lot of money from selling British slaves.

[AtW]

We're gonna get the blame for global warming

Look, stop playing idiot - opium wars and stuff like that was totally dishonourable bordering on war crime thing, and it wasn't just some rogue officer who did it, it was Govt policy - just how many Chinese got killed by it, millions?

It is great fortune that China is not at war with UK over such events.

The least this country can do is let in natives who helped sustain British empire for so long - it would not have lasted that long without their help.

[Turion]

We're gonna get the blame for global warming (We started the industrial revolution, and if we'd not done such a silly thing as to advance mankind in this way, there would be no problem as we'd all (the world) still be living in cess pits lit by candles).

All the affected nations will use that as another excuse for trying to come here.

[AtW]

Roman legionaries had to complete 25 years' service to get Roman citizenship, back in the day.

Pillaging was one of the tax free job perks back then...

[swamp]

Roman legionaries had to complete 25 years' service to get Roman citizenship, back in the day.

Fact is we ain't Rome! Let them in.

[TykeMerc]

The vikings plundered much of England in the middle ages. Should we be asking the Scandies for compensation?

Or the Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons and French for that matter........

On topic I do hope that the Gurkhas get residence, their contribution has been significant.

[AtW]

The vikings plundered much of England in the middle ages. Should we be asking the Scandies for compensation?

Do you see the difference between that and opium wars and extermination camps?

The scale (and time period) of these events are very different.

[Turion]

The vikings plundered much of England in the middle ages. Should we be asking the Scandies for compensation?

[AtW]

The Indians and Pakistanis (and the rest of the empire) fought for us during WW2 so should we let all of them in as well?

I think you should be grateful that them and the Chinese (alongside with other nations) did not ask UK to repay years of occupation and plundering of their own land - opium wars alone would probably qualify as war crime now.