Gurkhas treated so appallingly

3:39pm Tuesday 1st April 2008

I WAS appalled to read of the Government's treatment of ex-Gurkhas.

Whole families in Nepal have loyally served this country for over two hundred years.

Unbelievably, those older Gurkhas who completed their service with the British Military some years ago before settling here (as permitted by previous governments) have now been told they must return to Nepal and, in the meantime, they are not allowed to work here.

In view of this Government's haphazard and completely ineffective efforts to control and repatriate illegal immigrants from all over the world their attitude to the Gurkhas seems incomprehensible.

I would be most interested to hear what Redditch MP Jacqui Smith, as Home Secretary, has to say on this matter.

KAF Brewin

Studley

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