MP fights for islands’ right to lay a wreath at Cenotaph

Monday 29th November 2010, 2:29PM GMT.

Andrew Rosindell QUESTIONS have been raised in the House of Commons over why the Crown Dependencies had again been refused ‘the right’ to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.

Vice-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Channel Islands Group Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell (pictured) asked if the matter could be resolved for next year.

‘Will he [the Lord Chancellor] explain to the House why the Crown Dependencies were yet again refused the right to lay a wreath on Remembrance Sunday this year?’ he asked.

He said the House recognised the enormous contribution by members of the Crown Dependencies to Her Majesty’s Armed Forces in wars and conflicts over the years fighting for King and country.

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P B Falla

November 29, 2010 at 4:02 pm

May i suggest they consider the islands irrelevant

Herein lies the answer

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valeite

November 29, 2010 at 5:51 pm

Oh please Mr Rosindell keep us out of that one, it is an argument we can do without, it causes enough fuss over here,as to who is first in the pecking order, imagine the furore over that one.

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Islander

November 29, 2010 at 9:21 pm

Type into Google;

It’s Tommy this and Tommy that.

There you’ll get the idea of how Rudyard Kipling saw it.
It’s nothing new.

Once you’ve done your duty laughingly described as -”For King and Country”

When danger is over you’re just scrap, when danger threatens, your toasted everywhere–
Anyway read Kipling’s answer to it all.

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simon

November 29, 2010 at 11:09 pm

Im not up on international political etiquette, but is it not more appropriate to do our honouring on Island rather than at the Cenotaph?

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