soaringhigh650, you clearly do not understand the way ATSOCAS works in the UK.
The top of the Brize CTR is 3500 ft QNH, above that it is Class G airspace. My call was to provide the Brize Radar controller with my intentions, to assist them in whatever strategic planning they might consider for separation directions to any IFR inbound or outbound traffic operating under a 'deconflcition' service. The ATCO was emphatically not providing any 'vectors or altitude assignment' under the 'basic' service under which I was operating. Hence she had no right whatsoever to issue any orders or instructions under those circumstances.
Requests for co-ordination are one thing, inappropriate overcontrol of aircraft in Class G quite another.