Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Ghurkas
Sign this if you support the plight of the Gurkha. It's shocking the way these people have been treated. These people fought for this country and what we have today, we owe them a right to live here and share in what they fought for if they want to, yet it's been being denied to them and all the while people to whom we owe absolutely nothing have been turning up here in droves and getting an abundance of financial and moral support. Shame on this country!
Location: Up among the heather on the hill o' Bennachie....
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject: Please sign and support the Gurkha's.
Sign this if you support the plight of the Gurkha.
It's shocking the way these people have been treated
These people fought for this country and what we have today.
We owe them a right to live here and share in what they fought for if they want to, yet its been being denied to them and all the while people to whom we owe absolutely nothing have been turning up here in droves and getting an abundance of financial and moral support.
Shame on this country!
I have met a few that stay around here and they are very polite and nice people. ;-) (These are anyway).
You know it is a shame that we are giving benifits to people that we owe nothing too and have never stood up for this country let alone the UK., yet the Gurkha's are treated this way! _________________
Gurkha veterans who have fought for Britain will be given the right to stay in this country following a "legal first" in which the High Court had to enforce its own ruling against the Government.
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 4:26PM GMT 26 Mar 2009
The court heard that in the hiatus since the September ruling a number of veterans had died waiting for resolution of the case Photo: PA
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has now been forced to abide by a High Court order that will give the previously excluded former soldiers from Nepal who served in the British Army the right to apply to settle in Britain.
She is expected to make the announcement to Parliament in three weeks, the court heard.
The news came as the Gurkhas returned to court to enforce a legal victory they won last September, when a High Court judge ruled that the Government's existing immigration policy excluding them was unlawful.
Campaigners, including the actress Joanna Lumley, whose father fought with the Gurkhas in Burma during the Second World War, said the Government had "delayed and delayed" since the court decision. Ms Lumley has previously called the Government's position a "stain on our national character".
The court heard that in the hiatus since the September ruling a number of veterans had died waiting for resolution of the case.
The most recent was Rifleman Prem Bahadur Pun, who died on Sunday, March 15.
A statement seen by the judge said: "It appears that his death - as well as being deprived of cheap modern drugs to bring him comfort in his final months - is linked to the Secretary of State's failure to comply with her assurances to publish the policy and complete the reconsideration of over 1,000 stayed cases by December 30 2008."
Gurkha campaigners described today's return to the courts as "a legal first" in which a litigant had to return court to enforce a judgment against a Secretary of State.
Surrounded by Gurkha veterans, David Enright, a solicitor representing the veterans, said: "The Government has delayed month upon sorry month, allowing your fathers to die while their sons served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"The Government has had to be shamed, kicking and screaming, back to court again."
In September's ruling, the judge said Government immigration policy in the case of the Gurkhas "irrationally excluded material and potentially decisive considerations" or "was so ambiguous" as to mislead applicants, entry clearance officers (ECOs) and immigration judges alike.
Six claimants brought the case to challenge the lawfulness of the Government policy that Gurkhas who retired prior to July 1997 - the date that the Brigade of Gurkhas moved its base from Hong Kong to Britain - did not have the necessary "strong ties" to be allowed entry.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The revised guidance is currently under consideration and will be published by 24 April.
"Since 2004, over 6,000 former Gurkhas and family members have been granted settlement in the UK under immigration rules."
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