Proud to back the Gurkha cause
September 19, 2008 12:34 PM
By Lynne Beaumont, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group Shepway District Council
By Lynne Beaumont, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group Shepway District Council
It was with great pride, I took part in the demonstration outside the High Court in London this week, standing alongside hundreds of retired Gurkha's. The demonstration had been organised to show the world how badly this country treats its best soldiers, with no right to remain in this country if they retired before 1997, even after giving 24 years of their lives to defend this country.
Now, we have the support from Joanna Lumley and Virginia McKenna, whose Fathers both served 30 years with the Gurkha's: this is a cause very close to their hearts.
It is time for the Government to sit up and listen. The nation as a whole knows this legislation to be wrong, unfair, and unjust. I am ashamed that our Country treats retired Gurkha's in this fashion. Gordon Brown could end this injustice with a stroke of a pen, and put an end to the shame, and an end to the suffering it is causing.
This campaign will never end, until justice is seen to be done. We will not stop representing these people, until this wrong is put right, and the families involved are given the same rights as any other commonwealth soldier who is prepared to lay down their life in the service of this country.
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