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My Mp is Labour and she did the Labour thing.

Voted No

Just shows what my Mp thinks of our Armed forces.

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My local MP is a Lib Dem - David Howarth - & voted Yes.

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It looks like my local MP has lived up to his name and voted with the government..David Lepper(Lab)
This gutless wimp has one of the most "loyal" voting records in the house since 97, on the "they work for you" website he has the glorious comment "hardly ever rebels" and where's it got him?
A bag carrier for some under PPS, zooming up that ziggeral eh Dave.:rolleyes:

I don't often say this but, thanks to the Tories.

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So it now looks like Brown and his Government has rejected 4 out of 5 claims by the Gurkhas. what a bunch of low life's.

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Right now the words that describe this current government are not suited for a family forum and this whole episode has shown just how incapable of leading this country GB is when he walks into the most blatant trap set for him.

His inability to really get control of this is embarassing for us as a people and a truly disgusting way to treat some of our finest servents and supporters for over two hundred years and while every ghurka can still hold their head up this government should hang theirs.

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Rizzy it sounds better if the last word in your post is removed.

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Gordan Brown is gutless. He has no honour and considering that yesterday he said HE would take control of the situation it shows exactly how he has done it. A gutless wonder who needs to be removed from office sooner rather than later. Even better put him in a room with a few Gurkha's.

Meanwhile the Government is possibly going to allow Illegal immigrants amnesty and let them live here. Having done absolutely nothing for this country but be a drain on our taxes. Labour supporters i hope you can sleep at night knowing what a bunch of low lifes you support.

You can bet there will be those that still defend what he has done to the Gurkha's and will try there damnedest to blame the Tory's

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Agreed

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"You can bet there will be those that still defend what he has done to the Gurkha's and will try there damnedest to blame the Tory's" Should such a person appear i am sure we can campaign for them to recieve the right medical help they need. There is absolutely no reason why this is happening and this governments handling of this has been a complete and utter joke. If anyone in the government had a tenth of the honour and integrity of a single ghurka this country would be a lot better off. I suppose we shouldn't expect some of our politicians to recognise the quality of the ghurka's when they don't have any of the same qualities to be familiar with them.

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What stuns me even more is that he has picked this time to show what a tit he is. June 4th is looking to be the worst ever local elections for Labour if you look at some of the indicators. So Brown has shot himself in the foot and good on him. Hopeful some more of the cretins that are in his party will be down the road after the 4th of June.

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Being honest Sirius m8 i think what we are seeing now is the true GB a man completely unable to respond to anything that isn't scirpted or foreseen and a person devoid of showing even basic emotions in a positive way. He is completely out of his depth right now and is struggling to cope damaging all of us in the process.

This issue was a no brainer from the start the ghurka's have always had the majority support from the british people hell we love them as much as they love us (hopefully that is still true despite how our government are treating them) and this should never have turned into the mess it is. Fact that it has really has shown us more about our government then many other things to date and it isn't good and it isn't what we as a people want representing us.

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To be fair I think it's obvious the letter that were sent out this week were a result of actions taken before they lost the vote and before Brown said he would reconsider the change.

Have to give credit to Joanna Lumley though

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Yeah that might be the case Damien but i am sure that someone could have found out what the decision was and notified the campaign thus avoiding that cringe worthy performance put on by wooly yesterday. He should be sacked immediately because never has a government minister been made to look suc a complete and utter prat as he was. I was absolutely stunned at what i was seeing when he was told what to agree to.

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People are incompetent, not really a surprise is it :p: I thought that confrontation was excellent, Lumley did well and knows how to get the job done it seems!

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Joanna Lumley has my total respect but it doesn't change the fact that only incompetent morons would have allowed themselves to be in the position she put them in in the first place and thats why we need to get shot of this lot now. I fully support the ghurka's and have always believed that any man that is willing to fight for this country has an automatic right to live in the place he volunteered to defend.

This government day by day is becoming a disgrace to the people of this country and making us another laughing stock nternationally with the incompetent way basic things are being handled and GB is still trying to tell other leaders he knows what they should be doing yeah right.

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Has everyone signed the online petition at http://www.gurkhajustice.org.uk/ over 210,000 people have signed so far.

The goverment really need to know how upset people are and out of touch they are.

JJ