Comments on: Pinocchio Brown in Wonderland http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/05/21/pinocchio-brown-in-wonderland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pinocchio-brown-in-wonderland @TAC Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: For All Your Gurkha News… « Around The Sphere http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/05/21/pinocchio-brown-in-wonderland/comment-page-1/#comment-6592 For All Your Gurkha News… « Around The Sphere Fri, 22 May 2009 13:20:45 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=1808#comment-6592 [...] UPDATE: Septimus Waugh [...] [...] UPDATE: Septimus Waugh [...]

]]> By: Septimus Waugh http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/05/21/pinocchio-brown-in-wonderland/comment-page-1/#comment-6589 Septimus Waugh Fri, 22 May 2009 06:40:45 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=1808#comment-6589 Thankyou for correcting my ill informed article. On the BBC Today programme of this morning 22nd May I heard someone offering the opinion that allowing Gurkhas to retire to the UK might spell the end of the Gurkha regiment, because the Nepalese government would no longer be interested in supplying soldiers from among their brightest and most enterprising citizens if they were not going to return to Nepal to spend their, by Nepalese standards, vast pensions there. However part of the reason that Joanna won her case was that she demonstrated to the government that there would not be the flood of Gurkhas that they feared. The real reason of course is that the House of Commons desperately needs to be generating some good news to combat all the horse manure, that is being thrown at them Thankyou for correcting my ill informed article. On the BBC Today programme of this morning 22nd May I heard someone offering the opinion that allowing Gurkhas to retire to the UK might spell the end of the Gurkha regiment, because the Nepalese government would no longer be interested in supplying soldiers from among their brightest and most enterprising citizens if they were not going to return to Nepal to spend their, by Nepalese standards, vast pensions there. However part of the reason that Joanna won her case was that she demonstrated to the government that there would not be the flood of Gurkhas that they feared. The real reason of course is that the House of Commons desperately needs to be generating some good news to combat all the horse manure, that is being thrown at them

]]> By: Thomas O. Meehan http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/2009/05/21/pinocchio-brown-in-wonderland/comment-page-1/#comment-6586 Thomas O. Meehan Fri, 22 May 2009 01:39:03 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/blog/?p=1808#comment-6586 Gurkha units served until recently in the the armed forces of both India and the Sultanate of Brunei. I have no idea if they can retire to these places. Having let all sorts of disloyal former colonials, letting in these fierce and loyal little fellows can only help. Gurkha units served until recently in the the armed forces of both India and the Sultanate of Brunei. I have no idea if they can retire to these places.

Having let all sorts of disloyal former colonials, letting in these fierce and loyal little fellows can only help.

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