MP Gerald Howarth has sparked more heated debate by saying Nepalese people spend their time wandering around and sitting on park benches..............
He told Mr Wallis it was the elderly Nepalis who retired from the army in the 1970s - who "cannot speak English and do not understand our customs" - who caused problems in Rushmoor
http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/s/2110972_howarth_defends_nepalis_on_park_benches_jibe
As a resident of Rushmoor Borough, with a Nepalese social club just round the corner etc, I can confirm that the Nepalese DO spend a LOT of time outside, walking (Past our house), in the park, playing sports, chatting, socialising etc.
And you know what? I think it's BRILLIANT to see. I'm very flattered that they should come to serve in the British Army, and live here after they retire, (and cook curry in all our local curry houses) lovely, lovely people they are.
There is no problem that I can see.
Agreed.
how dare members of the public spend time in public sitting on public benches!
"I was walking around in Aldershot on Saturday and everywhere I went there were Nepalese people just basically sitting out in the open, sitting on the park benches."
The bastards.
What a prize fin de la cloche.
More than happy to have 'em, sitting on park benches or whatever.
Oh, and besides, he's going to get Lumleyed now! 🙂
Well, if we can get them to go and live in Spain, they can keep the Germans and their towels off the sunbeds I suppose......
Phhhhhhhhhhh 🙄
most of the population of aldershot spends its time wandering around, not working.
although i have noticed them there nepalese wear lots of layers... now they can't be cold so as they've got brown skin i think they must be terrorists hiding something.
EDIT.... stealing the bolts that hold the park benches together i suspect.
I live in Ash Vale and I think we should do everything we can to support them, they have had nothing but a rough deal from the government and a long fight over equal pay/ pensions etc.
They are some of the hardest working, nicest and polite people you will ever meet and as an ex-squaddie you would never hear a single complaint from any of the Gurkhas they were usually the last ones smiling when times were tough.
"do not understand our customs"
Savages. Park benches aren't for pensioners (quite possibly with ornate moustaches) to sit on. They're for teenage supercider drinkers to lounge over and write graffiti in permanent marker on.
Not a lot of Nepalese round this way but I can confirm at elderly Sikh fellas also love a good walk and a park bench.
I would pay good money to watch the right honourable Gerald Howarth MP try and turf a Gurkha, no matter how elderly, off a park bench.
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They're for teenage supercider drinkers to lounge over and write graffiti in permanent marker on.
ahhh you've been to aldershot then 😀
Rather than moaning about the Gurkhas wouldn't it be easier to provide a few more benches? Or would that be too simple...
That article is surreal. I would go as far as to say that it is virtually undailymashable...
wouldn't it be easier to provide a few more benches?
Nooooo! That would make the problem WORSE! More benches = More Gurkhas sitting down!
They've opened a few of the derelict shops in Aldershot too: Cool looking tailors, and they don't half like their bling too!
Always friendly when I encounter them on the Basingstoke Canal/Blackwater Valley route as well. Although when it gets to Blackberry-ing season they seem to always get first dibs on the best crop (probably 'cos I don't get there early enough though!).
i know i'd rather sit on a park bench next to a nepalese individual than the average aldershot citizen or the MP complaining about them that's for sure!
Although when it gets to Blackberry-ing season they seem to always get first dibs on the best crop
That's not just the Gurkhas.... 😳
🙂
Same thing in Farnborough, loads of Nepalese in groups chatting, wandering about or sitting on benches. I have to laugh, they obviously don't even have Sky TV 🙂
On a day like today, I'd like to be outside sitting on a park bench chatting to people, even if it was limited to being in Aldershot.
Lucky buggers... It's a nice day for that sort of thing.
Oh, and besides, he's going to get Lumleyed now!
I've been dreaming of that since I was six 😳 the lucky lucky bastard!!!...
As someone who lives just down the road.
****ing ace - more of them please, more curry houses, more fantastic shops in the centre of the shot with lots of lovely spices and smells, lots more fantastic curry houses serving momo's and chlli bread.
As for the MP involved - Chuplag Chicknee Mootah! 😉
than the average aldershot citizen
AH - HEM!!!
lol i said AVERAGE... your garage means you're above average.
MEDICAL FACT.
i was born in aldershot, probably explained the birthmark in the shape of the Kappa logo on my chest.
What an arse 🙄MP Gerald Howarth has sparked more heated debate by saying Nepalese people spend their time wandering around and sitting on park benches.
Have been to Nepal on three occasions and sitting on a park bench socialising is a fine tradition, everyone does it.
Don't these "Nepalese" now have British passports?
Isn't he basically saying that no benches are available for local people because they have other local people already sitting on them, who just happen to be ex members of a highly respected regiment in her majesty's armed forces.
philconsequence - Member
how dare members of the public spend time in public sitting on public benches!
stop copying me MSP! although... they do say imitation is the best form of flattery...
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Nepalese = blimmin' lovely
FACT
Phil, I managed to get a pic of you in Swinley when you took your jersey off....
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its a motivational tattoo so people behind me try to keep up with my super gnarly riding skillz
(i had a real moment of fear before the photo loaded thinking you were actually going to post a topless photo of me! i dont take my top off in public for a good reason)
Rather Nepalese sit on public benches than a bunch of piss head teenagers or such like littering the surrounding area also.
You know what? Ive got a big old smile on my face right now due to your comments above about Nepalese people. I was in Nepal last year with the Gurkhas when an MP who shall remain nameless came out to get an idea of what Nepal was like so he could advise with more authority or some other b@llocks. We almost ended in a full blown confrontation as he effectively said that everyone in Aldershot hated Gurkhas because there was too many of them in the area. However, if the comments above are anything to go by, it seems that there's quite a bit of support for my blokes and their families. Mega.
AYO GURKHALI!!!
I was in Nepal last year with the Gurkhas when an MP who shall remain nameless came out to get an idea of what Nepal was like so he could advise with more authority or some other b@llocks.
Name and indeed shame please.
We could all learn something from the gurkhas.
Very respectful and polite people.
I must admit, he shall remain nameless mainly because, in my rage, I forgot his name. In any case, he picked the wrong set of people to wind up as one of the guys had just returned from Afghan where his guys had literally saved his life and wasn't having anything bad said against them!
Oh yeah, I have GOT to get myself one of those Gurkha lego figures!
what a total b*ll end.
In related news: it's noticable how many Gurkha-lookin fellas are now security guards for shops in the area. Wonder how the local tea-leafs are enjoying that!
The post above reminded of this story from early last year. 1 Gurkha vs 40 robbers. Brilliant.
Gurkhas, the Nepalese elite soldiers in the service of Britain and some of its former colonies, sometimes fight with their traditional kukri knives. One retired Gurkha was carrying his knife when a train in India that he was riding was robbed by forty men.
The band of about 40 robbers, some of whom were travelling as passengers, stopped the train in the Chittaranjan jungles in West Bengal around midnight. Shrestha– who had boarded the train at Ranchi in Jharkhand, the place of his posting–was in seat no. 47 in coach AC3.
“They started snatching jewelry, cell phones, cash, laptops and other belongings from the passengers,” Shrestha recalled. The soldier had somehow remained a silent spectator amidst the melee, but not for long. He had had enough when the robbers stripped an 18-year-old girl sitting next to him and tried to rape her right in front of her parents. He then took out his khukuri and took on the robbers.
“The girl cried for help, saying ´You are a soldier, please save a sister´,” Shrestha recalled. “I prevented her from being raped, thinking of her as my own sister,” he added. He took one of the robbers under control and then started to attack the others. He said the rest of the robbers fled after he killed three of them with his khukuri and injured eight others.
“Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier; taking on the dacoits in the train was my duty as a human being,” said the Indian army nayak.
You guys should read the thread on this over at the army rumour service.
as a ex-squaddie i can honestly say that i have never met a harder working "race" of people they would never complain and where always smiling. Also they "had you back" when we was down the naffi (and the Fijians, Also a top bunch of guys and girls.)
I think there are other people in this country that we need to worry about before we/they (i wont be taking part) kick off with the gurkhas!
The inscription on their war memorial near the MOD is quite apt and a fitting tribute I think.
Gurkhas...nails
Can't we keep nepalese here and send MPs to a hot deserty place to face the taliban
batfink - Memberwhat a total b*ll end.
In related news: it's noticable how many Gurkha-lookin fellas are now security guards for shops in the area. Wonder how the local tea-leafs are enjoying that!
I think there is one security company now making using ex gurkhas as a specific selling point. .there were certainly a few extremely polite and tough looking chaps who could have been Ex-Gurkha at the Track World Cup in Feb at Olympic Velodrome place
Ah - found them
http://www.gurkhasecurityservices.co.uk/
I work in Aldershot, and I regret to say that the very balanced views shown in the above posts are sadly lacking in some of the people I work with, many of whom live in the town. There was a threat of a march last year to protest about the number of Nepalis in Aldershot - I am not sure if it actually happened.
This is not the first time the MP for Aldershot has made a fool of himself, and I would imagine it won't be the last.
I regret to say that the very balanced views shown in the above posts are sadly lacking in some of the people I work with, many of whom live in the town. There was a threat of a march last year to protest about the number of Nepalis in Aldershot
This is not the first time the MP for Aldershot has made a fool of himself
The two could be connected. Although as he has a safe seat with no chance of losing in 2015, he is indeed a fool for risking his own party's national popularity for the sake of his own local popularity.
Gurkhas...nailsCan't we keep nepalese here and send MPs to a hot deserty place to face the taliban
+100
There is a building developer down my way who has recruited a team of ex Ghurkas to provide security to their sites.
They arranged discounted bus tickets with appropriate bus company as most of them did not drive and/or have a car.
The bus service was less than reliable in reality so what did the team do? Not turn up? Turn up late? Blame it on the bus company?
NO, arranged a central meeting point and jogged to the site arriving early enough to have time to make them selves presentable for duty. After the shift they jogged back.
15 miles each way!!
AYO GURKHALI!!!
I think there is one security company now making using ex gurkhas as a specific selling point. .there were certainly a few extremely polite and tough looking chaps who could have been Ex-Gurkha at the Track World Cup in Feb at Olympic Velodrome place
Dunno if it's the same lot, but there's a portacabin in Farnborough football club car park occupied by a Gurkha security firm.
Pete - We used to employ Gurkha security at the quarry. (I sold one of them a bike for £20 to get to work on, Mrs PPs old Diamond Back) and one of them could regularly be seen sitting outside at night on the sand stockpile, with a little meths stove cooking his dinner! 🙂
I regret to say that the very balanced views shown in the above posts are sadly lacking in some of the people I work with, many of whom live in the town. There was a threat of a march last year to protest about the number of Nepalis in Aldershot
This really saddens me. Hopefully they are in the minority. Certainly nobody I know had any objection to them that I know of, including a few Army/ex-Army types.
I don't know any Gurkhas but I've enjoyed plenty of hospitality in ****stan and I would add ****stanis as decent and hospitable people when you meet them in the right context. I'm not talking about the scallies who race around town in black Audis with rorty exhausts here; I'm talking about their families.
Had to bring this back to the top after picking up a new cookbook at the weekend that has just been launched (nowt to do with me, I saw it in the Gurkha museum in Winchester, only came out a few of weeks ago)
Written by a Gurkha master chef with 23 years service
All I can say, is that it should have any of you Nepalese food fans drooling, and that the chicken and pineapple in honey sauce is simply to die for!
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http://www.theultimatenepalesecookbook.com/
PS - there's a donation to the Gurkha welfare trust from every purchase too!
Nice thread.
Having said all this, the ultimately saddest thing is Joanna Lumley has probably brought an end to the Gurkha regiment as it will no longer be cost effective to keep them.