[Magdalen] Keeping safe?

[Roger Stokes]

That's certainly the way it looks. There was the assumption that when 
they have done what they can for us they will go back to Nepal.

Roger

On 07/07/2018 10:56, Lesley de Voil wrote:
> Oh dear, Roger, and do you mean to say that all that patriotic fervour stirred up in us colonials by the sight of the ever-so-clever and brave Gurkha troops ( not to mention their bands, too) at the Edinburgh Tattoo was based on a lie (whisper) 'they're not really one with us'?
> Regards
> Lesley de Voil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Roger Stokes via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Sent: ‎7/‎07/‎2018 19:00
> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Cc: "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Keeping safe?
>
> On 07/07/2018 01:50, ME Michaud wrote:
>> When I was in grammar school
>> we were taught that our cause was just
>> (in the Revolutionary War)
>> because the patriots were actual citizens
>> while the British employed mercenaries.
>>
>> I know better now,
>> but I always remember that lesson when I realize that our current army
>> employs non-citizens.
>> If the world were fair, soldiers would be granted citizenship some time
>> during or after their service.
>> But nooooooo
> The world isn't fair. A few years back there was a big fuss this side of
> the pond over Gurkha soldiers. The British Army have used Nepalese
> fighters for over 200 years because they are renowned for their courage
> and they were organized into their own Brigade. Until 2004 their service
> did not automatically qualify them for the right to settle in the UK
> when they left the Army, and even then it was only those who had been
> discharged after the Brigade moved its HQ from Hong Kong to the UK in
> 1997. A major campaign, of which Joanna Lumley became the public face,
> this was extended in 2009 to all Gurkhas who had served at least four
> years in the Army. However they still have a reduced pension for service
> before 1 July 1997.
>
> Roger
>