Gurkha treatment is a bloody disgrace

08/07/2008

I am amazed how often this Government can shoot itself in the foot but they have done it again and I suppose will continue to do so until they get the Sugar treatment - You're Fired "

 

Treating the Gurkhas with such contempt is a bloody disgrace and I do not apologise for the rhetoric.  It is a fairly typical of politicians response to their military and apparently more so with new Labour's brand of socialism to cast aside servicemen who have done so much for a country which isn't even their own, yet will allow all sorts - spongers, recalcitrants and villains from the fleshpots of Europe - not only refuge, housing and benefits but a welcome with open arms.

I don't know about the world going mad but this country certainly has. The lunatics are definitely running the asylum.

It's this kind of crass behaviour and self-serving politics which has made them so unpopular. I empathise with the Ghurka's dilemma and apologise to them for ever voting for such a mean spirited and pennypinching Government.

Thomas J Maxwell DFC

Devon (erstwhile Bomber Command WW2)