London Diary (3)

The current government is stumbling over two minor failings, and that daily. They come from a generation which was never taught history in what they call schools in Britain, and they think the public is to be ignored except during elections. Let’s hope that the next elections will be a big payback to all major parties, and not just a switch from one incompetent to the next.

The Ghurkhas, Nepalese warriors spending their lives fighting for the United Kingdom, are fighting for their right to settle in Britain. It is a shame on the government, and actually on the whole system the British for reasons unknown call democracy, that the Ghurkhas have to fight for that right at all, when it should be a matter of course that they may do so.

Even people with little knowledge of history know what the government ignores: Without the Ghurkhas, the British army would be about as good as the palace guard of the Principality of Monaco. Whenever there is real fighting to do, the Ghurkhas are there; whenever it comes to the Honours, they are somehow missing. And doing more for this country than 99 percent of passport holders, they have to fight for their right to stay here? For that reason, I give the thumbs up to Joanna for what she is doing; and she is doing it very well indeed.

The main problem might be that the people who support the Ghurkhas in their quest are talking of a debt of honour. No politician in the world knows the word, or rather, it works on politicians similarly to garlic on vampires: They get instantly brain damaged when it is only mentioned. But then, politicians would work for a living if they had learned anything useful or wouldn’t be complete failures; as things are, they have to be kept occupied by a welfare scheme that is highly damaging to countries all over the planet.

But the Ghurkhas will get the rights they deserve, it is to be hoped, even in a country where ‘concerns over the costs of pensions and the costs to NHS’ are cited as the reason for not allowing them to stay. We are talking 37,000 Ghurkhas; on the other hand we have millions of welfare recipients who should get less than half of what they are getting, living in riches, where others are in real need; we have thousands of overpaid politicians in councils, parliament, and government, who should be paid by the work they do (i.e. almost nothing) instead of the princely handouts made; we have hundreds of thousands government employees drinking tea at the taxpayer’s expense and not working a single day in their live; and they worry about the costs of 37,000 Ghurkhas?

It’s high time for the British to wake up to the realities of life.

Joanna Lumley is at least trying to instruct some of the government ministers in these realities. The way she cornered Wooly Brains Woolas in front of the running cameras was a masterpiece of manipulation; but it could only work on such a mindless moron as Woolas. To see that obese mandarin of no talent squirming under a barrage of quite straight forward questions was a joy to behold. Let's hope Joanna brings us more of these highlights in future days.

Joanna as Prime Minister? She certainly couldn't do worse than Incapability Brown, she is no war criminal like Blair, and she definitely has more brains than Cameron. It wouldn't be the worst scenario for this country.

Read the prequel: London Diary (2)