Is it more about Joanna Lumley than the Ghuerka's?

[max_tranmere]

I am fed up with seeing this woman taking up 90% of every news feature about the Ghuerka's. She is doing an honourable thing which we all support, but it seems to be about her ego and her being in the limelight more than it is about them. If she is just the lobbier, the facilitator, in all this then feature her in the coverage but only in a minor way. For her to be smirking and taking centre stage in all the photos, and with the people who it is supposed to be about standing in the sidelines, is bizarre. People are going to go off this woman very soon if she keeps this up. What do other people think?

[Jacques]

I think you can't spell Gurkha.

I also think she showed great humility in victory just like the Gurkhas do.

I also think tou are way off the mark ...... again!

[The Last Word]

True, she's brought a lot of media & public attention to the plight of the Gurkhas, but without it today's outcome may have been different.

Good on her.

[max_tranmere]

Interesting comments there. Like I said it is a noble and good thing, but why aren't the Ghuerka's (or however you spell it) dominating the coverage? Why is she the centre of it all? The Ghuerka's should be speaking and she should be at the side.

[max_tranmere]

swampthing, people lay down their lives for the country not for the Royal's as such. It was always said that for many centuries, every time the nation was under threat or when the call to arms came (when a war actually started) the aristocracy were always the first to step forwards to defend it. They died in such gigantic numbers in WW1 (1914-18) that the aristocracy and its power was changed forever after that. More than one million acres of aristocratic land was up for sale in 1919 in England alone as so many of the owners had perished. The late Queen Mother lost two brothers in WW1. The huge death toll the aristocracy took in WW1 lead to the eventual end of our Empire 50-60 years later and to the dismantling of the class system. The aristocracy has given a lot to the country.