What we need now is Joanna Lumley

mixie


Joined: 16/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
28/07/2009 23:00

I wish someone like Joanna Lumley would champion the isolation imposed on the TRNC.



The TRNC is punished over and over again.



About time for a change. The direct flights fiasco is another example of Britain's tunnel vision

Mixie

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
28/07/2009 23:05

Why would you want Lumley championing our cause. Hasn't she done enough damage already, opening UK borders to a bunch of Asian mercenaries. And getting them pension rights, only a government like Brown's would have allowed this one.

mixie


Joined: 16/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
28/07/2009 23:10

I believe she championed an injustice. If people are good enough to serve in the military for us why shouldn't they be given rights to live here? They have to serve for 4 years.



What goes on in the TRNC is an injustice ,,,and I'm not speaking about the ex pats but the actual Turkish Cypriots or the Turks of Cyprus.



M

paddywack


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 959

Message Posted:
28/07/2009 23:11

I don`t think this is what you believe, I hope you are saying this just to get an argument going

paddywack


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 959

Message Posted:
28/07/2009 23:13

My previous post was meant for minertor.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
28/07/2009 23:13

minertor,



Back to the drawing board please!



mixie,



An Avenger Avenging the Alienated! Not a bad idea!



Richard

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 00:35

I signed Lumley's petition as I grew up in a military family with tales of these wonderful soldiers. A week after this I saw the programme on the Gurkhas. At the last Gurkha enlistment in 2007 there were 200 vacancies. There were over 17,000 applicants. These applicants spent 6 months trying to prove they were of the quality required. I was surprised that so many spoke English. They told the interviewer that from an early age they dreamed of joining the Royal Gurkha Regiment. The reasons given were the pay, 17,500gbp as a soldier against an average Nepalese wage of 300gbp pa. They spoke of the better life they could give their families. They spoke of the chance of getting a UK passport. They spoke of bringing their families to UK and of all the benefits therein. NONE of them mentioned any love of Britain or the Queen. To my mind that makes them mercenaries (look it up) and having been paid their entitlement ends. I have nothing but respect for these people but do we owe them anything?

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 00:42

The Gurkha's used to play friendly war games with the SAS, they never lost!



Richard

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 00:50

Get back to your beer Brins, read Bravo 2 zero and you'll realise that if Andy Mcnab is the norm, the SAS couldn't win "It's a Knockout"

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 00:58

Am I mixed up with the 'Green Berets'?!



Richard

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 01:02

Nah Brins, that were John Wayne wannit, another legend wi' clay feet.

CyprusChill


Joined: 08/05/2009
Posts: 666

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 03:02

My first experience outside of RAF Odihum, in a local pub and the pool table given a heightened level of excitement by a group of very well dressed small fellas. All dressed the same, excited and having there own rules and gambit as to the involvement in my game.

Hereford was a learning curve and experience.

Middle East pipelines and occasional African experiences, aided by french (british) foreign legion; gave me further support.

Being just a WISE man in all of my expriences has not enabled me to survive and progress.

Being WISE i mean Welsh Irish Scotish and English.

Not everyones experience or requirement in there line of duty in every day life, but on occassion and when called for ; some become your father, son and family before you know it.

Continue to look after the kids in Afghanistan. The Gurkha way.

CyprusChill


Joined: 08/05/2009
Posts: 666

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 04:11

On the back face of GENOCIDE FILES -



" I urge you to read this book. It needed to be written. A compelling and entirely different account of the so-called Cyprus problem. The finely tuned skills of a distinguished foreign correspondent shine through in Harry Scott Gibbons' reporting."



Anne Robinson, Britain's leading TV Personality, the host of the world famous TV show "The Weakest Link".



...... Anne, with all your contacts ............... please help to sort this nonsense out.



'Ted Nugent'. Lemmy. Steve Gerrard. Alan Titchmarsh. Nick Hornby. James Herbert. Andy McNab. Jeremy Clarkson. Katie Flynn. Frank Lampard. Stephen King. James Herbert. Harry Scott Gibbons. The Guiness Family. Gary Lineker. Freddy Flintoff. Mr Bulimore. Mark Cavendish - Mr Speed. Wiggins - GB Team. Brendan Behan.. BILLY C. David Haye. Mr Virgin. Dali. Jones Instrument Technology. Simon Schama. Nico Vermeulen. Beefy Botham. ' Ted Nugent ' track - Stranglehold - ..Cyprus Perhaps .........................

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 09:09

cypruschil, read msg 15 three times. Is it in code or is it some sort of quiz.

Just read it again and still stumped. Agree with your msg14 though seeing as my grandson is soon to be one of Our Kids in Afghanistan

mixie


Joined: 16/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 11:37

CyprusChill



I will make it my next thing to do..........To get hold of the Genocide Files and read it. Have only heard piecemeal from those who have read it.



Are you saying Anne Robinson has strong feelings about the Cyprus Issue?



If so, she would be just the person to speak out

Mixie

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 14:13

Dear minertor



>>opening UK borders to a bunch of Asian mercenaries. And getting them pension rights, only a government like Brown's would have allowed this one.<<



I've read all your posts in this thread and note not a few ommissions/ inaccuracies



1/ The Tories and Lib Dems were pushing the Labour govt into a u-turn over the Gurkhas ..



2/ They only got the same rights as other Commonwealth ex-serviceman already had.





Still laughing about your comment re Ismet being "anti-British"... on the "direct flights" ruling..

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 14:15

mixie, you can get a copy of the Genocide Files at Pegasus. Karaoglanoglu. Should be required reading for anyone settling here.

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 14:26

Hi multiM, opposition will always push against government policy, that's why they're called opposition.

Wasn't aware that Nepal was part of the Commonwealth. If they are, welcome one and all.

It's just a matter of record that Ismet knocks Britain, he's entitled to his opinions, as I am to oppose them.

omissions/inaccuracies depend on the blood/alcohol level

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 14:42

MultiM, wondered about your interest in my postings so checked your member info (first time I've ever done this) and see you have connections to the Emerald Isle. Would that be North or South, or like me, both.

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 14:53

ps MultiM, would you be the Mark of the Solent from another board?



minertor

aka KT4