Those Tories keep handing out medals in spite of the boos.

wolf01 — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:48:00 +0000

David Cameron, British Prime Minister (2010-????)

David Cameron was rightly enthusiastic about all those British athletes (Olympic and Paralympic) winning all those gold medals this year. They are rightly rewarded by their medals well deserved.

Bradley Wiggins

Chris Hoy

Eleanor Simmonds

Greg Rutherford

Jessica Ennis

Mo Farah

Nicola Adams

What greater honour could they receive than Olympic Gold? Well Chris Hoy, the brilliant track cyclist, went on to get one of Britain’s silliest awards, a knighthood so really, sorry Chris, you should really be addressed as Sir Christopher Hoy these days. Well, I think all that knighthood stuff is a load of tosh, sorry again Chris, but who needs them? All those Gold Medals are surely much more impressive than a name that smacks of old fashioned British snobbery.

Why would Chris Hoy, for all his excellence, want to be herded in with these gentlemen?

Edward Garnier

Gerald Howarth

James Paice

Nick Harvey

Who are they? You may well ask. Well, I understand your mystification. James Paice, Edward Garnier, Nick Harvey and Gerald Howarth were junior ministers in the British government until they were sacked this week in David Cameron’s ministerial reshuffle. Poor guys maybe, losers you might well think but we don’t have to feel too sorry for them because, yes, they have all been sacked but immediately knighted to stop them whingeing on the back benches. So arise Sir James, Sir Edward, Sir Nick and Sir Gerald. Crap but posh – can’t be bad.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot the other sacked but honoured minister.

Sir George Young

David Cameron couldn’t make Sir George, the sacked Leader of the Commons, any posher because his “Sir” comes from being a 6th Baronet. Wow, six generations of knights! I wonder who the first baronet was? Need you ask, he was an 18th politician and sugar plantation owner who became the first Governor of Dominica who when he died, left his 896 black slaves to his son the 2nd Baronet. Well at least Sir Chris Hoy only had to ride a bike for his gon pity all those sacked Conservative ministers couldn’t just get on their own bikes and shove off.

The first Baronet Young at home with his family.

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Strip all the knights from their shining armour – not just Fred.

wolf01 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:34:00 +0000

I know that I have always put Fred Goodwin’s title in brackets on these pages and I’m certainly not sorry to see him lose that silly addition to his name. I have no admiration for the man and only contempt for what he did during his days with the Royal Bank Of Scotland and his part in the collapse of Britain’s economy.

I don’t agree with the way he was stripped of his knighthood though – the honours system is the UK is already too political for its own good with all those titles going to friends of the Prime Minister but this incident smacks of cheap political point scoring as it is pretty obvious that Prime Minister Cameron put pressure on the supposedly neutral committee charged with defrocking knights who have broken the law. Fred might have been a nasty little s**t but, as far as we know, he hasn’t broken any laws. he is no worse than a lot of the other people strutting around this country flashing their knighthoods.

Just Plain Fred

Instead of just stripping Fred, we should get rid of the whole system of stupid titles and, if anyone really deserves an honour then just give them a nice shiny medal. If not then I suggest all existing knights should be forced to walk around in a full suit of armour to show us just how dated this whole system has become.

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Those Tories keep handing out medals in spite of the boos.

Strip all the knights from their shining armour – not just Fred.