Can This Government Sink No Lower?

The answer is that of course the curent Labour government will find a way to disgrace themselves even further. However, they have made a pretty good attempt at hitting rock bottom with their continued disdain for Gurkha veterans. Having been stymied in their attempt to prevent all Gurkhas who served before 1997 from settling in Britain by a High Court ruling, the government has made another attempt to exclude these valiant men, who--although they may have never set foot in Britain in their lives--are already far better Britons than any member of the government.

It makes especially little sense in light of the fact that people from Rhodesia, Ceylon, and other disloyal and ungrateful parts of the empire can just rock up, claim asylum, and expect that they and their descendents will be supported by the taxpayer unto the hundreth generation.

The government's new guidelines cruelly mock the Gurkhas by restricting settlement to those who have served for 20 years. The maximum a standard rifleman is allowed to serve is 15. This is in contrast to any other Commonwealth soldier, who only needs to serve 4 to be eligible for settlement.

The government claims that if all Gurkhas and their dependents were allowed to settle it would lead to a flood of 100,000 immigrants at a cost to the public purse of £1.5 billion. Tom says, and I agree with him, that they are a bargain at twice the price. An influx of loyal, hardworking citizens who have proved willing to fight and die for this country is a boon to this society, and may go some way towards counterbalancing the disaffected ethic enclaves that have sprung up thanks to appallingly lax immigration policy coupled with divisive 'multiculturalism.' It will also provide a ready pool of home-grown recruits to fill the ranks of the British army for the rest of its existence.

The real reason for the government's actions, as everyone knows, is not the unlikely idea that the Labour government is in any way apprehensive about spending billions of the taxpayers' pounds on growing the number of welfare dependents. Rather, they are afraid that this particular immigrant population might actually vote Tory. Since they have no respect whatsoever for military personnel and appear allergic to the concept of honour, it does not bother them at all to hang a huge number of this country's veterans out to dry for cheap and selfish political ends.