I'd been told to return to Parliament
But the, Special Branch
wouldn't believe I was gay.
They looked at my record
they looked at my awards.
And so no, he's just trying to get out.
No. You know, at the time, the military
It was problems with accommodation.
There was a lot of people
I purchase voluntary redundancy.
but that was quite expensive route.
So a lot of people would think of excuses
So that's what they thought was happening,
so that you had to prove effectively
that you were the bad man in their eyes.
So they turned up out of the blue,
which to this day I doubt they did,
the home address, the flat
to interview me,
who was a civilian
so they went to the restaurant
and brought him back to the flat.
he was in one room
and we were individually interviewed
explain how we'd met
to the utter humiliation of both of us,
Explain what we did in bed,
what pubs we socialized in,
horrible, horrible time.
done on a very spurious bit of legality.
Yeah.
No right to question
But he got away with it.
And I'm not unusual in this,
there's a lot of my contemporaries
that's when they believed it.
Yeah.
Humiliating was was the word.
