How?

WillowTheWhisp · 03-10-2006, 14:22

How does someone con themselves into being awarded an MBE? I don't have a link but just heard it on the news.

garinda · 03-10-2006, 14:46

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

How does someone con themselves into being awarded an MBE? I don't have a link but just heard it on the news.

Is this it?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/s...121876,00.html

garinda · 03-10-2006, 14:47

I think the whole honour system is a farce, this just shows it up even more.

AccyJay · 03-10-2006, 14:49

Thanks for the link Garinda. How was he not checked out?

WillowTheWhisp · 03-10-2006, 14:52

Yes that's him. What a thoroughly unpleasant character. It makes a mockery of an MBE received by someone I know for genuine work he has done in the community.

garinda · 03-10-2006, 14:58

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Yes that's him. What a thoroughly unpleasant character. It makes a mockery of an MBE received by someone I know for genuine work he has done in the community.

It does, and I'm not taking anything away from the person you know by saying I think the whole honour system is a farce. It just all seems so arbitrary, with so many hard working people going unrewarded, and most of the honours going to the super annuated, fat cat, civil servants in Whitehall, or those purely selfless benefactors to any of the main political parties who end up with a Peerage.

garinda · 03-10-2006, 14:59

...or the fact that on his Mother's death that prat Mark Thatcher will receive a title!!!!

WillowTheWhisp · 03-10-2006, 15:10

Yep, can't disagree with you on that.

Less · 03-10-2006, 15:14

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Originally Posted by garinda

...or the fact that on his Mother's death that prat Mark Thatcher will receive a title!!!!

Don't worry too much about him getting the title, he'll never be able to find his seat in the house of Lord's, mummy won't be there to give him directions.

West Ender · 03-10-2006, 21:50

Hasn't he already got a title? He is Sir Mark Thatcher. He inherited his father's baronetcy, which Denis got for services to the distilling industry and being a millionaire.

I know 3 people with Honours, all Civil Servants. One was a lady I worked with in Durham who got the MBE for the charity work she did, one was one of our Inspectors - I don't know why he got his OBE but he was a lovely man, and the other was our Big Boss who got the OBE last time around for being, amongst other things, a Lt. Colonel in the TA and a magistrate. I suppose people like them deserve some reward but I don't like the way entertainers get it, almost as a matter of course, when they've been around a bit. I read in the paper today that Bruce Forsythe was a bit miffed he only got the MBE and wasn't made Sir Bruce - the arrogant ******.

SPUGGIE J · 03-10-2006, 22:18

Westender when do you get you "honour" or are you not far enough up the ladder?

garinda · 03-10-2006, 23:12

Tony Wright, Labour chairman of the Commons Public Administration Committee, which has investigated the honours system, said: 'If we give honours for honours, we should remove them for dishonours.' Thatcher's title was passed to him when his father, Sir Denis, died in June 2003.

Former Prime Minister John Major awarded Denis Thatcher his baronetcy. He told Wright's committee last May he had been reluctant to award the title but had been lobbied by 'influential figures' in the Conservative Party.

[Quote from the Guardian.]

He'll still inherit another hereditry title on the death of his Mother as well.

West Ender · 04-10-2006, 18:50

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

Westender when do you get you "honour" or are you not far enough up the ladder?

Not flippin' honourable enough, I'm afraid!