Gurkhas

[Solaris]

Good news everyone!

Ministers defeated in Gurkha vote


The rules on Gurkhas entering the UK were changed last week
The government has lost a Commons vote on its policy of restricting the right of former Gurkhas to settle in the UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8023882.stm

 

[Eejit]

Good stuff.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I was unable to understand the content of Solaris' post because I was lost in recollections of Futurama.

 

[NeptuneUK]

I was unable to understand the content of Solaris' post because I was lost in recollections of Futurama.

This.
But the first sentence made me think the news was good, so hurrah!

 

[Shakermaker]

The Lib Dems said 28 Labour MPs voted for their motion - although that is thought to include one Labour MP who voted both for and against the motion.

Wut? How can you vote both for and against a motion? That is stupid.

 

[jverne]

There's immigration that helps us, and there's immigration that hurts us. Somehow we've managed to create a situation where Islamic extremists can come into this country, preach against the West on national TV and claim state benefits. And where our major cities are full of ghettos.

Yet it's really difficult for a skilled migrant who wants to embrace our culture to actually get into the country and stay here. It shouldn't be difficult for eg. American professionals to immigrate here, yet for some reason it is.

And as for the Gurkhas, I can't think of any other group of people who deserve not only residency but British citizenship more. And even IF having them here would hurt us economically, tough. We OWE them, big time.

this is probably the single repi's statement i couldn't agree more.

your gov are total imbeciles, why the **** do you allow them to continue, i think the UK went from a respectable western country to a politically correct, cowardly, spineless dictatorial shit hole in not even 6 years (since iraq). every news i hear from England is mostly bad or at least the bad far outweighs the good. fix your country already. :thumbs: