Sometimes, politicians make decisions that defy logic, rationality or any kind of sense at all.

They are then told by an overwhelming number of people that they are wrong - people who are both friends and opponents, or even people who have no interest in the politician at all.

After all of that, and being publicly humiliated, they still cannot admit that they are wrong and do the honourable thing.

I am, of course, referring to Mr Brown’s attitude to the Gurkhas and his defeat in Parliament yesterday.

Nick Clegg did the right thing in tabling a motion enabling Ghurkas to have right of residents. His Parliamentary party did the right thing. The Conservative Party leadership and backbench MPs did the right thing. Labour MPs who supported the LibDem motion, were unfairly called “rebels” even though they did the right thing.

Still, Mr Brown cannot see his faults and will not grant these brave soldiers equal rights, because (wait for it)…it will be too expensive.

What a small-minded, silly man he is. Can he only measure morals by money? Where is his moral compass now?

Brave men whose military abilities are admired and feared across the world do not deserve to have the same rights as British soldiers, because they will cost a drop in the Ocean of the £1.4trillion of debt Gordon Brown has put us in - pathetic.

Readers will now how passionate I am about the issue of the treatment of our armed forces - if this is the treatment the Gurkhas get from the effective Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, why should they put their lives on the line for Britain?