-Winston Churchill

Ghurkha Rights to British Citizenship

The Ghurkhas have recently won one of their longest ever battles, the right to British Citizenship. It is expected that Tony Blair will shortly announce that they will hence forth be given the right to apply for British citizenship after leaving the army.

This accomplishment follows a lengthy campaign to win theses Nepalese soldiers the right to live in the UK and an 18 month review conducted by defence chiefs and officials from the Home and Foreign Office.

Whilst the Ghurkhas are comparatively pleased with this result, they are still not totally satisfied due to the cut off date which has been set as July 1st 1997, and means that no soldier discharged before this date is able to claim or even apply for Citizenship, and therefore...