Parliamentary Friends of Fiji

May it survive and thrive.

Fiji is in an odd position, in that the President is elected by the Great Council of Chiefs, which continues to acknowledge the Queen as Paramount Chief, but the place keeps having coups due to the failure to get on and restore the monarchy overthrown by the first one.

Faced with an Officer Corps like that, it is no wonder that Fijians prefer to serve in the British Army. Saint Peter's "Love God and Serve The Emperor", i.e., the monarch of the day, even remains the official motto of what is nominally a republic.

Serving and honourably discharged members of the Armed Forces must enjoy at least the same rights of entry, abode and work as are enjoyed by the most privileged category of non-British nationals, and they and their dependants must be classified as home students.

Nothing less than the rights of entry, abode and work enjoyed by EU citizens must be extended to citizens of those states having the same monarch as the United Kingdom, or having the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the final Court of Appeal, or both.

Ed Miliband, Jon Cruddas and Maurice Glasman, over to you.