I constantly read that Her Majesty has forbiden the wearing of the PJM.........Frankly I think she has no idea that her name is being use.

The DHC put it in front of her and with hundreds of other papers signed it.

Even if she now knows of the conroversy there's nothing she can do.

Pity realy, if she were Elizabeth 1 perhaps she could send the Boys around and have thier heads off.

Frankly, I'd start from the bottom.

In concludsion, My GSM [bar Borneo] and my Pingat Jasa Malaysia medal are mounted in line, the rest of this sentance
has been censured !!!

Perhaps I may have perceived the situation wrongly, but, this is the way I see it.
The Civil serpents know that they have made a horrlicks of the PJM situation and although saying, 'You may not wear but it will not be policed', is the standard get out clause for the numpties.

They have to save face somehow. Then again, think of the ramifications if anyone was told to remove their PJM, or at worst, arrested for wearing it. I don't think that the Civil Serpents or the Government would survive the mauling in the press, or the courts of law, for that matter.

May I quote from Lewis Page's book, Lions Donkeys and Dinosaurs, on the waste and blundering in the armed forces.

'The usual source of information is from the MoD, itself. as this admits only three possibilities.'

1. The MoD information is accurate. If it makes them look like idiots, they probably are idiots.

2. The MoD have massaged the information in their own favour. If it still makes them look like idiots, they are doubly idiots, in that they cannot falsify information properly, and the situation is worse than they described.

3. The men from the ministry, have somehow got the information wrong, in such a way as to make themselves look worse than they really are, in which unlikely case, they are truely incompetent.

Yours Aye

Arthur