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Originally Posted by STEED
It's about time the law was changed to insure these people get a proper pay out and the care they need. They were set out there by our government Tony Blair who never payed his respects to those who came home in a body bags and Gordon Brown is doing the same thing.
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Well, we can't pay out as if it where a compensation claim. That would mean paying out several times the UK's entire treasury!
They already get all the care they need on the NHS, a injury payment and a pension for the rest of their lives in addition to the usual state pension after the pension age. They are certainly not left neglected.
I don't think that trying to cover the injury and death that results from war with cash settlements is the ultimate solution. I don't think we can pay off our debt to our servicemen in anyway!
Whilst we are on the topic, here is an unjustice! Apperantly VC winners have "no strong ties" to the UK:
Visa Officers at the British Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal, have rejected requests from British Army Gurkhas to come and settle in the United Kingdom. Those rejected have included Tul Bahadur Pun VC (a Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross in World War II) and Lance Corporal Gyanendra Rai (a Gurkha seriously wounded by Argentine artillery at Bluff Cove, in the Falkland Islands in 1982). British Visa Officers say that these brave Gurkhas do not have "strong ties" to the United Kingdom, despite years of service in the British Army. (And a bloody VC FFS!)
If you would like to support the Gurkha Army Ex-Servicemen's Organisation (GAESO) and Howe & Co Solicitors' campaign to repay the debt this country owes to the brave men of the Brigade of Gurkhas, by allowing all our Gurkha heroes a right to come and settle in the UK (we should welcome them not abandon them) then please sign the petition on the 10 Downing Street website, here: PETITION.
http://vchero.co.uk/