Arkroyal,
Yes, the document was passed to their lordships and they did question Wratten about it, a document that had been hard to obtain because, apparently, someone had been trying to keep it away from prying eyes.
Other points about senior RAF officers are, sadly, true. There are, of course, some notable exceptions, but people like this promote similar hard-nosed individuals and, believe me, there are others who will replace them in the near future, already well-up in the HQ Strike Command hierarchy. They are universally arrogant and abuse their status (I know of one Air Marshal who, as a Station Commander, ordered a teenaged female steward to don wellingtons and clean out his fish-pond! She subsequently volunteered for 6 months in the Falklands to escape this kind of mistreatment). Perhaps a TV producer would like to research some similar stories, then name & shame? These people are no better than Honecker or Pinochet.
