RE: ‘Council to consider Gurkha free bus passes. Veterans want free travel to include younger wives’ of September 24. Barely three years ago the same Nepalese community came up with a similar plea.

The authorities considered it and hey presto, it was granted. Free bus passes to those not entitled.

How quickly these immigrants learn about British values and how to exploit them!

Now the Gurkhas are at it again, no doubt having closely observed their old mates successful attempts of September 2012.

“Something as simple as a bus pass will make a huge difference to the individual and the community,” said their chief.

I bet it will. Paul Walker, ex warrant officer, even speaks of the debt owed the Gurkhas. Debt? Were they not paid? They knew what the contract entailed upon enlistment.

Many older British soldiers and their families are finding it hard to live, let alone travel around Swindon.

Don’t we owe them a debt too? Why should this group have preference over others?

Community relations? Little wonder Thamesdown Transport is in the red to the tune of £400,000 and stopped an essential number 20 bus service from Stratton for the elderly who rely on it.

Even a petition with 1,500 signatures failed to impress our Gurkha loving council!

‘Rules are rules’, says the council, but some are there to be broken it seems for the lucky ones. How many of these Nepalese rent properties out back home?

As immigrants they have demanded their ‘rights’ (thanks to a South African not even born here – J Lumley) and now pushed the barriers as far as we dare. No wonder these people walk about smiling all the time! The granting of bus passes to a community that seems to integrate very little is a must for community relations, is it not? Another wonderful handout by our ‘it’s your money’ council.

No doubt there will be a ‘formal’ presentation with gushing speeches from both sides stating how wonderful Swindon’s race relations are, but tough for the indigenous needy natives.

JEFF ADAMS Bloomsbury Swindon