On a promise..and a letter from Europe

I was quite hopeful this week when I called up to find out what the score was with our query. I have to admit to getting a tad grumpy when the helpful chap came back and said that "a manager" at Exeter says it shouldn't be with them and that I should call the help desk at Reading!!! Poor sod, I really do feel for these people who have to face the frustration of customers that are let down by "the ones that do not speak". I have to say that he pulled it back, he took my number and promised to find out from Reading who will be dealing with the request and also by when it will be dealt with. So I hung up confident at least that I would at least get a call back. So at 1615 I get a call back, with the poor chap saying that there's no good news as the person he needed to talk to had left the building for the day. He assured me a call back the next morning. Anyway the next day he calls me back, very cheerily saying that the it is policy that "the ones that do not speak" do not speak!! But I have been "promised" that by Wednesday I'll receive a letter from a "Senior Manager". I am excited and a little fearful of what that letter may contain, I am not full of confidence that it will be dealt with the appropriate care and attention, but there is always hope. Anyway we will see. I'll post what has been said when we receive the letter.

Posty's just been and a letter has arrived from Glenis Willmott (MEP). The letter contained a response to her letter from Mariann Fisher Boel (European Commissioner responsible for Agriculture & Rural Development). The key element is that the activity has to fall within the framework of the legislation and I quote...

"....this framework does not prevent the kind of activity described by your constituent.

I would therefore suggest that your constituent obtains the necessary clarifications from the British Authorities."

.....this is a bit of a coupe!! I have been advised to go back to my local MP to pursue it further. Interesting aside though, I wrote to EU after I wrote to the UK and I have yet to hear from the head of State for Culture Media and Sport.

I hope that I will have a few more signatures on the petition to demonstrate the sporting communities strength of feeling. Currently the score on the door is 727 and we're 270th in line. The trend figure this week (11) fell below 40 signatures for last week, but forum views remain constant.