Right, so if the Cold War in its entirety is reclassified as a specific campaign for the purposes of this medal (rather than the particular shooty bits of it), how would Widger recognise today's service personnel who are doing the exact same thing he and others did decades ago?
This thread is not about what is happening now, it is about campaigning for recognition, for those that stood firm in this country during that period up until 1991. Stop trying to negate what others did in some facile argument that it would somehow devalue what is going on now. If you don't want to sign the petition, then you are entirely at liberty not to do so, a liberty brought about by those who are serving now and those who went before.