Re: Fancy being a Knight of the Realm?
As soon as I saw this on the news I thought two things.
1. Backroom
2. InsaneApache
I agree though, the whole thing is just wrong, and I'm not buying the "I didn't know" line either. The whole system needs a shake up along with all the other honours (that's right, with a "U"). Seems to me that you can get a MBE for helping old people across the road, and don't get me started about getting knighted just for making £20 mill per film.
And another thing, where's JAG
Re: Fancy being a Knight of the Realm?
hehe....I don't know who I'm gonna rant about when Tonys' shuffled off!
and leave JAG alone (my new buddy) he's chasing tail and getting hammered like all young men of his age do when they first fly the nest.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Fancy being a Knight of the Realm?
Hey, and why not?
I mean, knighthood is based on contribution to the country. Technically, the PM rules the country, therefore it is quite reasonable that the contributions to his party get a favourable response for knighthood.
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Re: Fancy being a Knight of the Realm?
This process has been endemic to politics since the advent of professional politicians. If you have enough money, you can get access to the positions of power and skirt the need for any irksome scuffle with democratic processes.
"The republicans will draft your kids, poison the air and water, take away your social security and burn down black churches if elected." Gawain of Orkney
Re: Fancy being a Knight of the Realm?
Interesting article from Nick Robinson of the BBC.
linkThe whiff that won't go away
* Nick
* 13 Mar 06, 09:44AM
There are times when you hear something and the hairs on the back of your neck go up. Some words in politics have that effect. The word in question today is "sleaze".
Overused, unspecific, designed to damage rather than illuminate, "sleaze" is still a word that is mightily hard to shake off once it attaches itself to you. Over the past few days I've heard the high-minded editor of the sobre Financial Times use it; I've seen the former editor of the Guardian write it and seen the Daily Mail shout it from the rooftops.
What, you may protest, surely Labour has done "nothing wrong" (to use the party press office's favourite phrase)?
Well, no - provided, that is, you believe
* Tessa Jowell's protestations of ignorance of her husband's financial transactions;
* provided you accept that taking million pound loans from very rich people was not a ruse to get around party funding rules;
* provided you think there's nothing questionable about every person who gave the party a million getting a peerage or a knighthood;
then they have, indeed, done nothing wrong.
What's more they can boast that they created the laws on party funding and the Electoral Commission that are now being used to embarrass them.
No matter.
"Sleaze" doesn't depend on facts or track record. It's a smell, a feeling, a cloud that can form around a political party. Once it's there your enemies will use anything they can to increase the size of the cloud - John Reid's mortgage, Cherie Blair's speaking fees and anything to do with Tessa Jowell.
If the warning lights are not flashing red in Downing Street they should be.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Fancy being a Knight of the Realm?
I don't believe I have a million Euros though
Re: Fancy being a Knight of the Realm?
Sorry, Euros just don't cut the mustard. They are illegal tender in the UK. It has to be pounds sterling.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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