Gurkhas Descend on Downing Street
Police estimate around 1,000 Gurkhas have arrived in London to march from Parliament Square to hand deliver a letter to the Prime Minister at Downing Street this morning. The Gurkhas are protesting about the Government's failure to properly honour the right for retired Gurkhas to become citizens of the UK on retirement and to protest about the low pensions paid to retired Gurkhas.
The Gurkhas have been joined by other campaigners and activists from across the Country, with Peter Carroll, Toby Philpott, Lynne Beaumont, Darren Briddock, Tom McNeice and Bev Rolfe amongst the supporters from Shepway on the march to support the Gurkhas cause.
A new online petition to support the Gurkha's cause has been launched at the new E-petitions service at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/gurkha/ which delivers the petition directly to Downing Street. Any supporter of the Gurkha's cause is asked to sign the petition.