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New Years Honours
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There’s no question that he is one of, if not the, best in the world at that.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Anyway it's great to see IDS rewarded for his services to being a ****.1 -
And not the first to receive a gongbobmunro said:
There’s no question that he is one of, if not the, best in the world at that.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:Anyway it's great to see IDS rewarded for his services to being a ****.0 -
What??? Of course you can dislike people you don’t knowMuttleyCAFC said:A lot don't seem to like Hamilton. This is surely unreasonable as how can you not like somebody you don't know. You can only judge him on his ability and achievements which as has been said is up there with the all time greats in his sport.0 -
I see some bloke called George the Poet or something has turned down a gong as the British Empire did something shocking in his heritage homeland a couple of hundred years ago. And that is relevant now how? I really don’t get all this apologising for things that happened hundreds of years ago. It was a different age, different values, different way of life. Yes it happened and yes it was wrong but apologising for it hundreds of years later?6
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I think the real reason Hamilton hasn't got his big gong yet is probably because he isn't finished. Does anyone think there won't be more Grand Prix victories for him? Stokes, as brilliant as he is, plays a team game, and the country he plays for is England. So that could very well be it.
That's it, now I've upset both F1 fans and England cricket fans, I'm off out. 5 -
He is of Ugandan origin, they only got independence 60 years ago.LargeAddick said:I see some bloke called George the Poet or something has turned down a gong as the British Empire did something shocking in his heritage homeland a couple of hundred years ago. And that is relevant now how? I really don’t get all this apologising for things that happened hundreds of years ago. It was a different age, different values, different way of life. Yes it happened and yes it was wrong but apologising for it hundreds of years later?
They should drop the “BE” bit of the MBE etc and replace it with something contemporary, the British Empire doesn’t exist anymore and I’m not surprised that some people don’t want to be associated with the things that went on - particularly if they were perpetrated against their parents and grandparents.5 -
Queen is head of the Commonwealth, we have the Commonwealth Games so don't see an issue with an Order/Member/Companion of the British Commonwealth. The Empire will not return.
No one is asking you to apologise @LargeAddick The guy turned down the offer as is his privilege.
Meanwhile my MP, Bob Neil, has been knighted3 -
No need to get personal.cfgs said:
Despite your marvellous achievements with this forum, yet again, it appears you have come up short yet again.AFKABartram said:It seems one awaits another year... :-(
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George the Poet is absolutely right. He deals in words, and the words 'British Empire' have very bad connotations. If George the Poet thinks accepting those words is not honourable it is understandable to me.1
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Midge Ure should have been knighted for Band Aid.1
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On the basis that Geldof did...ElfsborgAddick said:Midge Ure should have been knighted for Band Aid.0 -
They appear to have missed me off the list again.0
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hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
On the basis that Geldof did...ElfsborgAddick said:Midge Ure should have been knighted for Band Aid.
One without the other was strange.1 -
ShamblesGovernment exposes addresses of New Year honours recipients3
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Lol, so everyone that got a gong had their address published. Great work by our trusted civil servants.
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"The best ones"?seth plum said:The best ones are those who refuse any suggestion of honours after getting the famous letter of 'consideration' and 'would you accept'.
I realise that like belief in God, getting some letters after their name might make some people feel better but as far as I can tell there is no material benefit.
At least the Poet Laureate gets £5750 plus a barrel of sherry.
If the care workers who get an MBE also got £35,000 a year for life then the system would be improved.
If it is about 'recognition', well high profile people like Olivia Newton John get recognition anyway.
I'm wary of people like that. Very wary.0 -
Yeah. The best ones, my favourites anyway when word gets out they turned down an award.
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Each to their own. Luckily most people are grateful for some form of recognition.2
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The only worthy recipient is WW2 D-Day vet Harry Billinge, unless you are a member of the emergency services, armed forces or have done outstanding charity work all the rest are just pointless, and renders the honours list worthless.4
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Yeah, but David Cameron awarded his barber an MBE in 2014, and he awarded Samantha Cameron's stylist an OBE in his resignation honours. I bet they were grateful for the recognition.1
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Absolutely, for me he should have been knighted for his duty to this country and for his work getting money raised for a UK memorial on the beeches of D Day. I salute this man for all he had done!! As for IDS he is just a nasty bastard who deserves nothing! There is no comparison between the two of them one is a hero, the other an arsrhole!Greenie said:The only worthy recipient is WW2 D-Day vet Harry Billinge, unless you are a member of the emergency services, armed forces or have done outstanding charity work all the rest are just pointless, and renders the honours list worthless.1 -
Zac F***ing Goldsmith! I ask yer. It seems that if you are a buddy of the PM you will get a gong, no matter what a plumb you are.3
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Fuck me even an mbe is offensive now.Also see the politics is creeping in again.....1
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Nothing for Bowyer1
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Rags to riches story.thewolfboy said:Zac F***ing Goldsmith! I ask yer. It seems that if you are a buddy of the PM you will get a gong, no matter what a plumb you are.
Classic tale.5 -
Son of Tory stalwart Sir James and related to dodgy billionnaire Labour peer and stalwart, Baron (Lord) Goldsmith?seth plum said:
Rags to riches story.thewolfboy said:Zac F***ing Goldsmith! I ask yer. It seems that if you are a buddy of the PM you will get a gong, no matter what a plumb you are.
Classic tale.
Classic!
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, a close political ally of the prime minister, is preparing to advise prosecutors on whether to bring charges in the cash for peerages inquiry, the Guardian has learned. He will be consulted by the Crown Prosecution Service, and is expected to give his views on whether charging Tony Blair, or anyone else, is in the public interest.Though he will not take the final decision, Lord Goldsmith's involvement has angered MPs who made the complaint.
It has also caused anxiety among officers at Scotland Yard, who privately wonder whether he will have the courage to endorse the prosecution of the man who appointed him. They cite Ken MacDonald, the director of public prosecutions, who has declared he will take no part in the case because he is a former colleague of the prime minister's wife.
Lord Goldsmith's relationship with Mr Blair has been under scrutiny before. The attorney general was pilloried by opposition parties over his advice on the Iraq war, which changed after he sought Mr Blair's view about whether Saddam Hussein was in breach of UN resolutions.
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Arise Sir Roland...........................
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Off with his head
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