New Years Honours

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bitchstewie

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55,197 posts

217 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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Some excellent awards such as this lad along with Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield.

New Years Honours 2024: Tony Hudgell, 9, youngest to receive medal

There are thoroughly deserving people you've never heard of such as a rail worker who's talked 29 people down from suicide but as usual they're mixed in with utter scumbags and chancers such as this.

Liz Truss unveils resignation honours list

S600BSB

6,122 posts

113 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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Rob and Kev should have been Knighted imho.

DocJock

8,487 posts

247 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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S600BSB said:
Rob and Kev should have been Knighted imho.
Agreed. Their award looks particularly mean-spirited when Sir Bill Beaumont has had his knighthood upgraded!

bitchstewie

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55,197 posts

217 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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S600BSB said:
Rob and Kev should have been Knighted imho.
100% agreed but there doesn't seem to be any logic to honours.

You only have to watch them to know they're not doing it for that smile

greygoose

8,644 posts

202 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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S600BSB said:
Rob and Kev should have been Knighted imho.
I agree, truly inspiring stuff.

lrdisco

1,550 posts

94 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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Kev & Rob played the wrong code unfortunately. There’s no high ranking conservative MP who goes to Superleague but the 6 nations matches are stuffed full of royal patrons and the political elite.
Have a look at the register of members interests. Lots of complimentary trips to twickenham.

chrispmartha

16,833 posts

136 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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bhstewie said:
Some excellent awards such as this lad along with Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield.

New Years Honours 2024: Tony Hudgell, 9, youngest to receive medal

There are thoroughly deserving people you've never heard of such as a rail worker who's talked 29 people down from suicide but as usual they're mixed in with utter scumbags and chancers such as this.

Liz Truss unveils resignation honours list
Rob and Kev deserve knighthoods, especially when you look at some that are getting the higher honours.

The system is not fit for purpose

chrispmartha

16,833 posts

136 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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“Thurrock Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price, a longstanding friend of Ms Truss who served as a business minister during her brief time in No 10, becomes a dame.”


It’s pathetic

James6112

5,426 posts

35 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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chrispmartha said:
“Thurrock Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price, a longstanding friend of Ms Truss who served as a business minister during her brief time in No 10, becomes a dame.”


It’s pathetic
Jackie could have faded away into obscurity.

But for the rest of her life, people will be introduced to Dame Jackie

How did you get to be a Dame?, I was business minister under Liz Truss rofl

What an embarrasing confession to have to make for the rest of your days.

bitchstewie

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55,197 posts

217 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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Truss's latest Lord.

https://x.com/lukeharding1968/status/1741029311505...

I really can't think why this lot played down the Russia report.

S600BSB

6,122 posts

113 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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bhstewie said:
Truss's latest Lord.

https://x.com/lukeharding1968/status/1741029311505...

I really can't think why this lot played down the Russia report.
The Russia stuff is no surprise. Such a bad smell hanging over the Tory party right now. Never worse.

55palfers

6,007 posts

171 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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Dame Shirley Bassey - Companion of Honour?

She lives in Monaco (tax exile?), how much companionship can she give from there I wonder?

Earthdweller

14,404 posts

133 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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Kam Hare, Inspector in GMP, who as a Sgt on the Tactical Aid Unit self deployed his unit to the Arena bombing and entered the scene with his team 18 minutes after the suicide bombing, despite being warned there could be secondary devices. He was singled out for praise at the public enquiry into the attack

Top bloke who thoroughly deserves his KPM for services to Policing

ninepoint2

3,514 posts

167 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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Guinness share crook gets CBE, just not right in any way whatsoever

Murph7355

38,935 posts

263 months

Saturday 30th December 2023
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chrispmartha said:
“Thurrock Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price, a longstanding friend of Ms Truss who served as a business minister during her brief time in No 10, becomes a dame.”

It’s pathetic
It just further underscores why the system as it stands should be scrapped.

The House Of Lords should be fully repurposed along with a total rethink of our political system.

Meanwhile honours like this should be entirely non-political.

That Truss even got to name some is idiotic.

oyster

12,866 posts

255 months

Sunday 31st December 2023
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Murph7355 said:
chrispmartha said:
“Thurrock Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price, a longstanding friend of Ms Truss who served as a business minister during her brief time in No 10, becomes a dame.”

It’s pathetic
It just further underscores why the system as it stands should be scrapped.

The House Of Lords should be fully repurposed along with a total rethink of our political system.

Meanwhile honours like this should be entirely non-political.

That Truss even got to name some is idiotic.
Why should Liz Truss (ridiculous though she was) not get to do a resignation honours as other previous PMs have done?

bitchstewie

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55,197 posts

217 months

Sunday 31st December 2023
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Out of a sense of pride and humility and some basic instinct of shame over how it looks perhaps?

By all means bung a couple of knighthoods and fk off quietly out the back door but putting people in the Lords for life after a month in office before resigning in disgrace?

Most people will look at that and think it's completely inappropriate.

DeejRC

6,481 posts

89 months

Sunday 31st December 2023
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Most ppl haven’t noticed or paid attention to them Stewie.
Yes, nobody largely cares about the Liz list, so frankly hers just get a raised eyebrow and a shoulder shrug.

Rob & Kev ain’t finished yet. What’s more Kev has only just started his coaching career really and was 1pt away from a WC final first time out. Give him time, that bloke will find his way to being a Sir.

119

9,651 posts

43 months

Sunday 31st December 2023
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bhstewie said:
Out of a sense of pride and humility and some basic instinct of shame over how it looks perhaps?

By all means bung a couple of knighthoods and fk off quietly out the back door but putting people in the Lords for life after a month in office before resigning in disgrace?

Most people will look at that and think it's completely inappropriate.
It's been going on for over a hundred years. A list for the professionally offended to mash their keyboards over.

James6112

5,426 posts

35 months

Sunday 31st December 2023
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