I suppose it is often the case that someone without expertise but full of good intentions fails to see or understand the long term implications of what they are trying to achieve. As the Gurkha association said it would have been so much better to have used the resources to improve their lives among their own people instead of bringing them here to a miserable existence.

I hope the current campaign ends well and the findings of the enquiry are fair and reasonable, because these fine men deserve no less.