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I can't see many saying that Gurkha's should automatically become British citizens after serving and hence breaking the terms of the 1947 agreement hinted at a couple of times, just that they should be allowed to live here.
Semantics perhaps but isn't that what many of the arguments in this thread are anyway?

I however will say, stuff the treaty and allow them to stay if they want to.

Perhaps its because I'm a right wing militaristic radical but I quite like the idea banded about in the Heinlein novel that despite spawning the dire film Starship troopers, had a very valid message about society, in that to have any say in the running of the country you should have been willing to sacrifice something for it, and these little buggers to my mind have more right than the majority of useless cowards who hide behind words while populating not only the houses of parliament but too many forums.

And before anyone gets on their high horse of freedom of speech don't bother cos I don't believe in it.