The Ghurkas.

[Hookey]

Where do you stand on their plight?

 

Personally, if they served then they and their "immediate" family deserved to be allowed to become British citizens.

[cider]

Lots of them working for peanuts on the Olympic site.

[Giant Reed]

This government are now being exposed as a shower of w@nkers on a daily basis.

 

Their immigration policy seems to be to allow thieves,rapists,fraudsters,and those seeking a free ride,to live here legally or otherwise.

 

Meanwhile the Ghurkas,a proud and brave people,who have a long tradition of fighting for this country,are treated like sh1te.

 

The latest ruling stinks.

 

But the way things are going,maybe the Ghurkas have had a lucky escape!

 

 

[American FLEET FAN No1]

They should be allowed to become British citizens, (I don't want to sound a racist) but other countries were only too glad to kick us out of their countries(I know they were commonwealth citizens) then they all streamed over to Britain, with very little restiction!

[Big J R]

The father of our best man at our wedding served with the Ghurkas in the 2nd world war.

 

He told me he'd far sooner have 2 of them beside him in battle than 10 fellow Brits.

 

They are devoted to this country and consider it an honour to serve this country, and are prepared to die for this country.

 

Quite frankly, they have far more right to settle here with their families than thousands of these lay-about Europeans who just want to come over here and sponge off us !

 

RANT OVER, (...for now !!!)

[Big J R]

Well, that's ANOTHER big climb-down for Gordini Brown.

 

Can't he see the writing on the wall ?

[Beeswax]

Originally Posted By: Giant Reed

Their immigration policy seems to be to allow thieves,rapists,fraudsters,and those seeking a free ride,to live here legally or otherwise.

If my memory serves me correctly, the 1947? commonwealth act gives any person from a commonwealth country the right to settle here. In 1947?, they obviously didn't think of the future consequences!

[Big J R]

Ms J Lumley for P.M., I say !!

[The Invisible Man]

I don't think Nepal has ever been part of the Commonwealth has it?

 

I'm swimming against the tide here I know, but I'm not in favour of granting Ghurkas the right to settle in the UK. Their soldiering ability is not in question but is irrelevant. The deal that, almost uniquely I believe, allows citizens of one country to fight for another, essentially as mercenaries, has never included the right to settle.

 

Pro-British they may be, but I understand that the main reasons for them wanting to join is for security, a higher standard of living than they could otherwise expect and a very high income by Nepali standards: this provides a good income for the soldiers and their families.

 

I see nothing wrong with this, I am a great admirer of the Ghurkas and would wish to see the present arrangment (which the Nepali government are not at all happy with) continue. I see no reason to change it though.

[The Gaffer from the Rock]

Would rather have these proud people living next door to me than the crazy fundamentalist lunatics who couldn't care less about anyone other than themselves and their own self righteous oppinions! At least the Ghurkas have given something to this country over the many decades and I for one would support their claim. Dont get me started about this government and its pathetic immigration policies, makes my blood boil!!!!!!!!

[Big J R]

At least the Ghurkas are a proud Nation of people who are willing to fight and lay down their lives for a country they adore, rather than loads and load and loads of sponging europeans 'ner-do-wells' and gypsys that want to sponge of us and then return home when the Euro equals the pound and they've tried to bleed us dry.

 

'NUFF SAID ?

[The Gaffer from the Rock]

Exactly, and people wonder why we are in a massive recession and the Euro is equal to the Pound!!

[Rhodes]

I see that the chickens are coming home to roost and Joanna Lumley is suddenly nowhere to be seen. Up to 12,000 Gurkhas are expected to apply for settlement in Britain over the next three years but swamped Military Charities warn that they are arriving wide eyed at Heathrow Airport from Nepal with little or no money, nowhere to stay and no idea about life in the UK. Many are virtually destitute when they step off the plane having borrowed money using their pensions as collateral to pay for their flights and visas, the pensions are a fortune for living in Nepal but totally inadequate for coming to live in Britain where they seem to think the streets are paved with gold.

[Rhodes]

I see that all Joanna Lumley's 'sterling' work two years ago for the Gurkhas, whereby she successfully campaigned for the soldiers and their families to be given the right to settle in Britain, has backfired for the beleaguered population of Aldershot with an influx of some 9000 from Nepal now living in the town and services are struggling to cope. The British Gurkha Welfare Society agreed there was a serious issue of over crowding in Aldershot but added 'picking out Joanna Lumley for blame is unfair, there was cross party support in Parliament to give Gurkhas the right to settle in the UK, we need the Government to follow up that support with funding'.