Chappie, having just replied to your post on the 'Parliamentary' thread with this:
Let us hope that it is part of a general realisation by 'those in power' that they have more to lose by treating people in a cavalier and contemptuous manner than by according them the respect that they deserve.....
in any event if that is so then there is still a gulf of neglect to make up for.
I was jolted out of my feelings of false euphoria by reading this thread. Gulf of neglect? Rather a gaping chasm! These jobsworths are contemptible in the way they treat those to whom they owe their very freedoms. One just instinctively knows that they would have been the ones manning the desks of the Third Reich if 1940 had played out so very slightly differently... "well, somebody has to do it", the weasel justification of the apparatchiks throughout the ages. Reform the MOD now, from top to bottom, before it destroys our ability to defend ourselves entirely! Rant ends.
Oh, nearly forgot, signed!