What have we become?
Salman Rushdie, who did exactly what for the country? gets a knighthood and Lance Corporal Rai gets the elbow!
What have we become?
Perhaps Lance Corporal Rai should claim political asylum as a refugee from severe hardship.
The FCO's treatment of a loyal servant of this nation is despicable, morally reprehensible, ugly, vile, unworthy, wretched (sorry, my dictionary has run out of synonyms).
Still, it's not surprising, loyalty, patriotism, integrity, a sense of fair play and a sense of duty are outmoded concepts and politically incorrect and those who hold these concepts dear are clearly dinosaurs who have no place in the "real" world.
I despair
TPD