The Ghurkhas are a part of the British Military and have fought in every campaign Britain has been involved in since there inclusion in the East India Companies armed strength back in 1816 (ish).

How you can talk about the Ghurkhas in the same breath as Illegal immigrants astounds me. It's either a statement that is designed entirely to annoy those who serve, (in which case it is beyond pathetic) or just absolute blind ignorance, and stupidity. I hope the later.

Economic migrants ? ! I'd like to see you say that to a Ghurkhas face, there more loyal to the Queen and Britain than half the Corbyn lover boys on here.

I'll stand by what I say.My point was that "migrant" soldiers have long formed a part of the British Army (though I think Gurkhas were actually Indian Army until 1947,when some stayed there and some went to the British Army.

You are still comparing british fighting soldiers to Illegal immigrants, Pathetic attempt to justify your own politics.

I didn't and don't suggest for a moment that the Gurkhas are any anything other than great soldiers who have been of great service to this country and are very loyal.I do suggest the prime motive for so many applying for so few places to join when recruitment is carried out in Nepal is the poverty there and people (quite reasonably) seeking to improve their lot in life.If that involves doing so in another country,that's the essence of what an economic migrant is.So,if you try and stand back,you may see the only "blind" thing around here is not my supposed ignorance but your prejudice that all economic immigrants have to be viewed as a dodgy horrible hoard of no gooders and your resultant difficulty in taking on board that some people you admire are in fact economic migrants too.

So now I'm predjudiced because I believe that people who fight and die for thier right to live in Britain are more deserving than those who just turn up cap in hand ? And you said I had difficulty in taking things on board, Who said the Gurkhas weren't economic migrants, I certainly didnt.

What I took offence to, was you comparing them to the people trying to gain access to Britain Illegally from what ever poverty (you claim) or opression they are facing. Funny how none of the migrants at Calais are from nepal, a country through your own admission you class as Poor etc etc. Why is that do you think ?

Read back what you have just written and tell me you arent trying to compare someone who joins the British Army and fights and dies for Britain, against someone from The African Continent (for example) who turns up primarly for free handouts (and dont tell me these people don't exist because they do.)

And if you don't believe me, just read the words in 2004 (from the Daily Telegraph) of a young Nepalese man hoping to be successful in the "lottery" to win a place in the Gurkhas:

"Kumar Bahadur Gurung, 18, who survives on odd jobs in the capital, Kathmandu..

"Joining the Gurkhas is like winning a million-rupee lottery," he said.
"Now if I am selected, my family and I could one day settle in Britain and live comfortably. If I had the chance to be a Gurkha, I would be assured of an education, training and a salary that surpasses that of a government minister."

You don't thats your freedom of choice in action right there Dan. Freedoms that Gurkhas have fought and died for. It is my opinion that anyone who has made scarifices for the country they reside in, is more deserving than those who slagg it off on the one hand, with the other out stretched grasping for money and housing.

Go to any homless area, you will find a large proportion have served for thier country. We just dont look after "damaged vets" to be fair to the Army it has got so much better since (afghanistan) and the very real horror that is PTSD (something I did suffer from, so I know how horrendous it can be.

But I dont want to sound like I am only championing homes for heroes, but my whole point on all these topics of immigrants, housing, beneifts, bils down to the simple fact, that in my belief we should get our own house in order, before we start giving scant resources away to people that were "stable" in thier own country but just fancied a bit of what the jones's have.

I do not belive we should house one single immigrant while we have homeless children taken advantage of, ex service man sleeping in doorways, homless vulnerable adults getting beaten up for s***s and giggles, or the unfortunates who through circumstances live in a cardboard box that gets pissed on every time some piss head feels like it.

You will never irradicate the homeless problem completely, some people are just born dick heads and society is better of without them spreading their DNA about the gaff, however not nearly enough by consecutive Governments both Labour and Tory has been done to address the problem.

And yet Mr Jo Bloggs form Ghana can turn up with out a pot to piss in, and get a house car and money.

Surely even the likes of comrades Nick and Legal can see this is fundamentaly wrong and borders on positive discrimination?

Marauding seagulls, steal your bread and s*** on your head, crap all over your car staining the paintwork. They keep you up all night with their endless screeching. The sooner something is done about it the better.