This should have been resolved a long time ago, it is a total farce that this matter should have to go as high as the Prime Minister of the country, but your administration has hardly covered themselves in glory by their delays and prevarication on the matter.
You appear to be keen enough to intervene on behalf of convicted drug smugglers, but not your own war widows. If that makes sense, or reflects your schedule of priorities, I am not going to criticise, but it is a sad indication of the state of the world when the only way for a war widow to attract the attention of British Government is to be arrested at
at Bangkok with
with half a hundredweight of "China White" in an oversized handbag..
What is at issue here is passports, not for the millions, but for twenty-five old ladies whose husbands laid their lives in the line, not because they had to, not because they were paid to, but because they believed in the integrity of the British Crown and what it stood for. Can we not give 25 old ladies a passport that they might never even use?
You can make this happen straight away. I should be grateful if you would do this, not for my benefit, but for the reputation of her Majesty's Government in one of the last remaining colonies. Letters from officials with excuses as to why things cannot be done or explaining that this is somebody else's problem are, quite frankly, of no benefit to anyone.
Can you please just make this problem go away?
Yours faithfully,
Peter A Gallo.