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Originally Posted by 03USMC Well I still say the Gurkha is getting a raw deal. And whoever made the decision should be ashamed of themself. |
Exactly. And thank you for those who have joined us in our support of these heroes. It is of course, typical behaviour of our socialist government towards the military. Currently Gurhkas pre 1997 are affected by this attitude. 50 of them have handed back their medals. However, it is being made clear to the Prime Minister that this situation is not acceptable. The English press and people are making their feelings known. Among current suggestions by the public is one that the Gurkhas and Gurkha vets should be employed permanently as a force to protect our borders and another that we should keep the Gurkhas and deport the Government.
Following MontyB's comments I challenge him to tell us in detail exactly what he considers should be done by the man in the street in Britain to deal with the Gurkhas' predicament. Obviously he has some magic formula for dealing with governments and I would like to hear it. I just hope he is not going to come up with the old chestnut of votes at the ballot-box, which in our case come up at 5 year intervals and when calls for referenda on important issues have been dismissed out of hand. I am sure he will be delighted at my invitation to give us the benefit of his great wisdom on this subject.
(As for senojekips;
please stop talking about yourself and making excuses for hijacking this thread. I am not interested.Talk about our fabulous Gurkhas. I stand by my statement already quoted by you in your last post and I have asked you no questions as you claimed. I cannot speak for the situation in Australia, but I can speak for attitudes here in England.Your responses were not an 'inconvenience' to me as you suggest - but an irrelevance on this thread, which I am sure you know.)