It has already been said that Megg Munn, the Permanent under Secretary of State at the FCO is making statements about the Pingat Jasa Malaysia and confusing it with medals awarded to British Military Personnel (Servants of the Crown). She either refuses to acknowledge, or is in deliberate denial, of the fact that the PJM was conferred by Her Majesty the Queen upon British citizens and to refuse them permission to wear on the pretex of non-statutory rules is unlawful and in breach of their democratic parliamentary rights and possibly basic human rights under the Human Rights Act.
She says that the PJM is subject to the criteria contained in the Government Rules yet I am in possession of a letter from her in which she says the rules do not apply to the PJM, so what is it to be Meg Munn? This, of course, is no change to the attitude British Citizens have been receiving from the bureaucrats for the past three years. The rules are non-statutory, the 2005 rules only 'reviewed' the 1969 Regulations which, incidentally were approved and initialled by Her Majesty the Queen, (but they did actually change the 1969 rules), and the rules are discretionary and have been changed, altered and ignored by the Honours and Decorations Committee who believe that they can instruct British citizens what to wear, or in the case of the PJM, what not to wear. It shows just how much (or how little) Meg Munn knows when she says she will place the rules in the House Library. Rt Hon Jack Straw MP put them there on 21st. November, 2005, and before making these wild statements she should have known this. It is time British citizens were treated fairly and justly and we can only hope that our parliament starts to take note when sensible politicians like Don Touhig MP show just how unjustly and undemocratically British veterans in this case have been treated by an unelected bunch of civil servants.
Andy Nicoll
Posted on 14 Mar 2008 5:56 pm
It has already been said that Megg Munn, the Permanent under Secretary of State at the FCO is making statements about the Pingat Jasa Malaysia and confusing it with medals awarded to British Military Personnel (Servants of the Crown). She either refuses to acknowledge, or is in deliberate denial, of the fact that the PJM was conferred by Her Majesty the Queen upon British citizens and to refuse them permission to wear on the pretex of non-statutory rules is unlawful and in breach of their democratic parliamentary rights and possibly basic human rights under the Human Rights Act.
She says that the PJM is subject to the criteria contained in the Government Rules yet I am in possession of a letter from her in which she says the rules do not apply to the PJM, so what is it to be Meg Munn? This, of course, is no change to the attitude British Citizens have been receiving from the bureaucrats for the past three years. The rules are non-statutory, the 2005 rules only 'reviewed' the 1969 Regulations which, incidentally were approved and initialled by Her Majesty the Queen, (but they did actually change the 1969 rules), and the rules are discretionary and have been changed, altered and ignored by the Honours and Decorations Committee who believe that they can instruct British citizens what to wear, or in the case of the PJM, what not to wear. It shows just how much (or how little) Meg Munn knows when she says she will place the rules in the House Library. Rt Hon Jack Straw MP put them there on 21st. November, 2005, and before making these wild statements she should have known this. It is time British citizens were treated fairly and justly and we can only hope that our parliament starts to take note when sensible politicians like Don Touhig MP show just how unjustly and undemocratically British veterans in this case have been treated by an unelected bunch of civil servants.