*rollseyes*
Gawd! They are giving a trinket to the miserabalist Victoria Beckham.
There is an elderly chap who wears all green, a green wig and pushes around a trolley festooned with advertising for MacMillan (sp) in ALL weather's collecting donations. I see him at all Wednesday home games, I also understand he attends all home games for United and I have seen him on non match days collecting.
Now I wonder if he has received any honour?
I must go check, because HE certainly deserves one.
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I don't often agree with Peter Tatchel . . . .
London, UK – 1 January 2011
Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, writes:
The New Year Honours list, announced today, is rotten through and through. Many awards are the result of cronyism. The elite rewards the elite, with the rich and powerful giving honours to the rich and powerful. They often know each other and nominate each other. This is tantamount to nepotism and corruption.
Local heroes and community volunteers get the low order honours, such as MBEs. Establishment toadies receive the highest awards, the knighthoods.
Most of the top honours go to business, military, diplomatic and civil service big-wigs, not to selfless, unpaid charity workers.
Why should people who get paid mega salaries get honours for doing their job? The bosses of BA and British Gas were among the wealthy establishment figures who got knighthoods. They deserve no honours.
Roger Carr is the head of Centrica, which owns British Gas. His salary is £450,000 a year. He received a knighthood, despite putting up gas prices by 7% at a time when profits are expected to rise by 100% to around £700 million. He is, in effect, being rewarded for profit increases on the backs of low-income families, causing many of them great hardship. Previously, he oversaw the sell-off of Cadbury’s to the US food giant Kraft. He gets a British honour for an anti-British economic decision, which will see job losses in the UK. His knighthood is typical of the way the honours system is so often tainted.
There are also unjustified honours this year for nonentity timeservers and flunkeys like Queen’s pastry chef and gardener, the lady-in-waiting to Duchess of Gloucester and the Lord Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire and Lancashire. For all I know, they may be lovely people but they have done nothing exceptional. Giving them honours is an insult to the many ordinary people who have made great personal sacrifices to help uplift their local communities and support good causes. It looks like favouritism and brings the honours system into disrepute.
Knighthoods and Dame hoods? Our honours system is a medieval farce. We should scrap these feudal titles. They are absurd and ridiculous, like something out of a musical hall pantomime.
Order of the British Empire? Hello! The British Empire is long gone. When it existed, hundreds of millions of people in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Pacific were colonised by Britain, ruled against their will, exploited as cheap labour and their lands were stripped of natural resources. This is not something to be proud of, let alone to commemorate with MBEs, OBEs and CBEs.
It is time to abolish the current honours system. Reform and rename it.
Limit awards to people who show great bravery and who do decades of unpaid volunteer and charity work.
Did you nominate him for an award EC?
Thing is, he sounds like a genuinely nice man, but if no one nominates him he will never get an award.
A friend of mine nominated someone who eventually got an OBE. It is a long process, requiring a lot of work on the part of the nominator, but if you genuinely believe that he deserves an award download the forms and get started!
Good luck 
And Rents ... I totally agree with your post, especially the last two paragraphs 
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It's been a mockery for a fair while now!
Cameron stuffed the Lords to the rafters with his cronies ...well done Lynn Faulds Wood and Prof Phil Scraton for telling them to stuff it
David Ord gets a knighthood for his services to politics....that would be donating 1 million to the Tory party coffers...makes me want to throw up
Happy new year 
Dame_Ann_Average posted:
Cameron stuffed the Lords to the rafters with his cronies ...well done Lynn Faulds Wood and Prof Phil Scraton for telling them to stuff it
David Ord gets a knighthood for his services to politics....that would be donating 1 million to the Tory party coffers...makes me want to throw up
Happy new year
That was obviously him having a laugh at us.....the plebs
Sprout posted:That was obviously him having a laugh at us.....the plebs
nowt to do with that, he was trying to make sure he had a good majority...although even the Lords voted against some of the policies, even they saw how ruthless and cruel to the most vulnerable they were they were.
I did have to laugh out loud when I heard on the telly box some one say "receiving an honour for services to fashion".
Un-bloody-believable.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
I did have to laugh out loud when I heard on the telly box some one say "receiving an honour for services to fashion".
Un-bloody-believable.
Thing is....her hubby got one too in years past 
Actually, I'll give him that, he was always, and still is smartly dressed
and by that way, I totally agree Renton's post....the British have very short memories
To be honest VB has contributed to British fashion and created a brand that raises revenue (sort of) for this country . It's good that she got that bauble for that rather than 'services to music', as that would be taking the piss. There's a shit load of establishment cronies that are less worthy than VB, who got honours.
Better her than that tax evading suck up w**ker, Gary Barlow!
If there is one thing worse than awards for people who donated cash to the Tories it's individuals who make a song and dance about turning them down.
Meanwhile in the headlines I note that May says it's going to be their year. Let's make sure it isn't.
Garage Joe posted:If there is one thing worse than awards for people who donated cash to the Tories it's individuals who make a song and dance about turning them down.
Meanwhile in the headlines I note that May says it's going to be their year. Let's make sure it isn't.
I think that the sentence was unfinished GJ. It should have read "it's their year to complete the job of f*****g up the UK"
....and I totally agree with the last sentence of Renton's post .....
