On 17/7/06 10:10, in article ,
"Alan" wrote:


"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

"Alan"wrote anyone read the sun on saturday 15/07/06

Lt Tulbahadur Pun 89 years old Ex Gurkha from WW11 now living in poverty
in
Nepal has been refused by the army museum to borrow HIS VC TO WEAR ONE
LAST
TIME before he dies (bear in mind his age) i think that the
Government/MOD
should step in and make this possible for him, it would appear that our
government look after criminals,rapists,work dodgers and other low life
better than they look after people like Tulbahadur who have risked their
life for england


Having been to Nepal and seen places off the tourist route I understand
what poverty means out there, unless you have seen it no-one in this
country can imagine it.
Think of this country about 700 years ago, living closely with the animals
to keep warm, washing pots in sewage sludge, children playing in pools
caused when open sewers flood due to heavy rain.
The Ghurkhas, indeed the Nepalese, are our friends and have been for
generations. Why does our Government and it's Civil Service treat these
people so dishonourably? It reflects on all of us.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK


thank you very much for that bob it is by far the best and most sensible
response i have had so far,
indead, i am so suprised that so many people are not even interested they
seem more concerned that the matter should not be mixed up with a gardening
ng i don't understand why when there must be folk out there that fought
alongside the gurkhas in WW11 still i suppose some people have short
memories


That is a complete misrepresentation of the facts and the truth. Some of us
have said that we have sympathy with your pov and many of us have already
read this story in our newspapers.
This is not an ex-serviceman's newsgroup which is where you are most likely
to get the response you want or need. This is a *gardening* group. If
everyone in this group posted on every issue *they* consider important
(especially without marketing it OT) this would no longer be a gardening
group at all.
If you post this to a military group or groups, you might get people to band
together and take the action you appear to want. Here, all you're doing is
annoying people which defeats your object. The last person to do this was
rapidly outed as a troll, has been an obnoxious pest ever since and is now
in the position where virtually nobody responds to his posts. That is a
danger for those who persist in trying to run a group for their own
interests and not those of the group.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(email address on website)