Gurkha Victory

[Elton]

At last! That they had to fight for this in the courts is, frankly, embarrassing.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7644441.stm

[hembo]

over due but at least they got there.

[five bellies]

Brilliant news I logged on to post it my self, Not a second before time as far as Im concerned.

[IanBass]

About bloody time!!!! Shame on this disgracefull Government

[Chris Goddard]

Make all my current woes as if nothing!!! And just goes to prove that THERE IS A GOD!!! Or at least someone who knows how to right a BIG wrong!!!!

[Ken L]

At the end of the day, the Gurkha's are mercenary soldiers recruited by the British army from another nation state in the full knowledge of their pay, conditions and pension rights and with no expectation of being granted a right of abode in Britain.

I'm sorry but I think that this decision is plain wrong.

I'm sure that people will argue that they put their lives on the line for this country but that's what mercenaries are paid to do. Strange that nobody feels that same need to invite in every Iraqi who put their lives on the line by working for BP to produce oil in support of the British economy but in essence, the two jobs are entirely comparable.

[Paul_D]

At the end of the day, the Gurkha's are mercenary soldiers recruited by the British army from another nation state in the full knowledge of their pay, conditions and pension rights and with no expectation of being granted a right of abode in Britain.

I'm sorry but I think that this decision is plain wrong.

I'm sure that people will argue that they put their lives on the line for this country but that's what mercenaries are paid to do. Strange that nobody feels that same need to invite in every Iraqi who put their lives on the line by working for BP to produce oil in support of the British economy but in essence, the two jobs are entirely comparable.

 

I thought Mercenary soldiers were those that fought for a bounty and not a regular (and taxable) payment from a, supposedly, legitimate government.

[Ken L]

Definitions of mercenary on the Web:

 

materialistic: marked by materialism

mercenary(a): serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers"

a person hired to fight for another country than their own

mercantile: profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business"

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

 

No mention of tax that I can see.

[Clifftop]

No mention of tax that I can see.

 

 

Does he not mean that the Gurkhsa' were paying tax and that mercenaries dont.

[Elton]

Gurkhas have been part of the British Army for a long time. They serve as British soldiers, not mercenaries.

 

Wikipedia has a fair bit about them:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_of_Gurkhas