The shoddy treatment being dished out by the Ministry of Defence to the Gurkhas and their families has taken another twist. Purna Gurung, who served as a British soldier for 15 years, earned medals for service and good conduct and has an exemplary Army record, is being threatened with deportation and is being made to pay thousands of pounds in NHS hospital fees after his wife collapsed in a coma.
Unfortunately like many other former Gurkha soldiers, Purna Gurung has been refused permission to settle with his family in Britain and has been reduced to surviving on handouts from the Royal British Legion and the generosity of friends and family.
Unfortunately like many other former Gurkha soldiers, Purna Gurung has been refused permission to settle with his family in Britain and has been reduced to surviving on handouts from the Royal British Legion and the generosity of friends and family.
The way the British Government is treating Mr Gurung and the many others like him is disgusting. These ex-soldiers, who fought and served for the British Crown, should be being honoured and thanked instead of being discarded in this insulting way; their British citizenship should be an automatic right not something that needs to be begged for. Whilst thousands of immigrants (many of them illegals) from God knows where and who have done absolutely nothing to earn the right of citizenship are being allowed by incompetent civil servants to take up residency in the UK, those who really deserve it are being kicked out the back door.
Britain has a debt of honour to these guys and their families. If the Labour Government won't satisfy that debt voluntarily then, like everything else to do with the Covenant, they need to be made to.
A petition has been set up on the Prime Minister's website urging him to give all ex Gurkha soldiers and their families, who have served our country, British citizenship on leaving the service. Sign the petition on the link below:
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