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Joanna and the Gurkhas
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:03 am
by DiVicenzo
If you nip down to central London right now (10am) you will see Joanna campaigning for the Gurkhas being able to stay in the UK. All the dross they let stay in this country(most of whom live on my estate) and they won't let people who fought valiantly for this country to stay here! Just sums up our stupid idiotic stance on immigration in this country!
PS: If you turn on the BBC News now you will get see la Lumley 
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:07 am
by Philippa
Damn can't watch tv now, my parents are watching something and they refuse to switch over to the BBC
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:14 am
by Allard
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:21 am
by Dandy Forsdyke
I read it that the rules for citizenship are set out not in UK law but by the EU, but I'm no expert...
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:39 am
by Frankymole
Dandy Forsdyke wrote:I read it that the rules for citizenship are set out not in UK law but by the EU, but I'm no expert...
Seems very unlikely, as EU countires set their own rules for citizenship, like Estonia (Eesti) which refuses to let its large Russian minority gain citizenship (even if born there) until they pass language tests.
Re: Joanna and the Gurkhas
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:40 am
by Frankymole
DiVicenzo wrote:If you nip down to central London right now (10am) you will see Joanna campaigning for the Gurkhas being able to stay in the UK. All the dross they let stay in this country(most of whom live on my estate) and they won't let people who fought valiantly for this country to stay here! Just sums up our stupid idiotic stance on immigration in this country!
PS: If you turn on the BBC News now you will get see la Lumley
Especially odd when every Tom Dick and Harry in Hong Kong got a British passport and the right to live here following the illegal handover to China in 1997.
Re: Joanna and the Gurkhas
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:54 am
by DiVicenzo
Frankymole wrote:DiVicenzo wrote:If you nip down to central London right now (10am) you will see Joanna campaigning for the Gurkhas being able to stay in the UK. All the dross they let stay in this country(most of whom live on my estate) and they won't let people who fought valiantly for this country to stay here! Just sums up our stupid idiotic stance on immigration in this country!
PS: If you turn on the BBC News now you will get see la Lumley
Especially odd when every Tom Dick and Harry in Hong Kong got a British passport and the right to live here following the illegal handover to China in 1997.
Exactly Frankymole - I think our immigration has got out of hand even though my father was a Polish immigrant many moons ago - well, over 53 years ago anyway. But they let stay in terrorists and other criminals yet these men fought and some died for us - now, if that's not a good reason to let someone stay I don't know what is! How can they go back to Tiber which has been ransacked by the Chinese! Crikey! I have gona all political and I'm not political at all! Sorry 
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:50 am
by Dandy Forsdyke
What was Joanna wearing?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:51 am
by kim
Dandy Forsdyke wrote:What was Joanna wearing?
Clothes? Oh come on! You knew I was going to have to say it!
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:15 pm
by DiVicenzo
kim wrote:Dandy Forsdyke wrote:What was Joanna wearing?
Clothes? Oh come on! You knew I was going to have to say it!
I think a black coat with a scarf and her hair tied back (not severely) - hang on- here it is again
Black coat; scarf black and various colours (she's talking on a megaphone now and shouts something out in the Tibetan language) and she has been given a gold coloured scarf! Hair in a kind of pony-tail with red 'scrunchy' (hate that word)...