Dear Editor, One wonders what Joanna Lumley has in mind with her visit to Nepal, other than self-glory, following her successful campaign in “rolling over” Gordon Brown to give the Gurkhas the right to stay in the UK. I always said, “why not, why all of the fuss, everybody else has the right”.
Joanna Lumley’s visit is symbolic of a resident or a royal personage and one can only ponder what other demands will be made on our bullied and impoverished taxpayers.
Some may feel that my criticism of do-gooders like Joanna Lumley is unnecessary and unfounded but I do become somewhat impatient of such people, who seem to have the time and money and have been well sustained by their host country, who attract foreign aid when there is so much and so many people in our own country and under their noses, who need campaigns and charitable help and who are not getting it. For one that does, there are many more who don’t.
I am referring now to our own indigenous people; people who it seems are being put on the back-burners of political will.
For everyone that is helped to live in our country from abroad, how many of our own indigenous population have to do without.
Politicians and the do-gooders who advocate immigration and charitable help to those abroad of course do not do without; they already have all they need.
It should be remembered that the Gurkhas were also well looked after, through Army pay and conditions and pensions, etc.
Douglas J Wathen,
Rushford, Salford Priors,
Nr Evesham.
