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Re: FOI 2000 - Here we go yet again.
Kentsboro wrote:
Unless you say otherwise Barry, I propose to reply using much of the article you published as a PDF, making mention of the London Gazette Notice, DCINs etc regarding why we can wear our medal with pride.
Tony,
Use all the material as you see fit. We can corroborate everything.
Including the fact that the civil servants by-passed Parliament by hiding rules so that MPs were ill-informed, making decisions in secret, not telling Ministers of those decision ... but running round the corner to the Malaysian High Commission to relay their decision that in effect our service to Malaysia, Malaysia itself, and the PJM were sub-standard so they didn't want the medal to be worn.
I have it on the very best authority that those civil servants are seriously miffed that their secretive and discredited stranglehold over British 'Honours' has been questioned by us and by Parliament who have voted, unanimously, that the suits have brought shame on our country.
The bottom line is that teh London Gazette is extant and therefore, as a Minister recently stated, has not been rescinded and so, as he went on to say ... wear the PJM with pride. I agree with the Minister.
Whose authority are we to take? The Queen's - or the crumpled suits? That, for me, is what I understand is called nowadays a "no-brainer".
Thank you for your continuing suport,
Barry
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BarryF, who fought for the Right to Wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia