"Sacha" <sacha [at] privacy.net> wrote in message
news:C0E11FB7.34374%sacha [at] privacy.net...
> On 17/7/06 10:10, in article 5uIug.14481$EK1.13907 [at] newsfe4-gui.ntli.net,
> "Alan" <alan.luker [at] virgin.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> "Bob Hobden" <me [at] privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:4hvs6kF1g49fU1 [at] individual.net...
>>>
>>> "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.
>
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
> South Devon
> (email address on website)
>
so speaks the NG police
