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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:07 pm  
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Disappointed too that David Weir won 4 golds at the Paralympics and only got a CBE. Some of those with a gold medal got lumped in with the others at M level, and I haven't seen gold medal winner Nick Skelton on the list at all. All very inconsistent and mysterious, whatever your view of the system.




Skelton was awarded an OBE just 6 months ago in the Queen's Birthday honours list. Weir's knighthood is surely only a matter of time.
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:32 pm  
Good on Ken Livingstone: you can shove your CBE
Good on Ken Livingstone: you can shove your CBE
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:55 pm  
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Disappointed too that David Weir won 4 golds at the Paralympics and only got a CBE.

The CBE is just below a knighthood isn't it? The MBE is the bottom rung of the award ladder.

As for Scully, he was awarded the MBE for services to rugby league and charity. He has accompanied Prekky on every challenge, he supports a local mental health charity and he is involved in Joining Jack. I don't think there is any need for the cynicism with regard to Scully. He fully deserves his MBE.
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:59 pm  
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... I've never knowingly spoken to a "Sir" ...


I've spoken to a couple of royals – does that count?
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:00 pm  
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Good on Ken Livingstone: you can shove your CBE


I suppose it's possible that the scab could manage one thing right.
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:43 pm  
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1) Hector Sants, previous head of the Financial Services Authority gets a knighthood. Yes that's correct, the bloke that oversaw the near-meltdown of the British banking industry is rewarded fro being such a spectacular tool.


Apart from the fact that it was the British banking industry that caused the near-meltdown of the British banking industry (you need to stop reading The Sun :lol: ) you are right in the fact that he is a spectacular tool lol
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:05 pm  
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Apart from the fact that it was the British banking industry that caused the near-meltdown of the British banking industry (you need to stop reading The Sun :lol: ) you are right in the fact that he is a spectacular tool lol


I don't read The Scum. But feel free to tell me which organisation had oversight of the regulation of the British banking industry, if it wasn't the FSA? As the Indy wrote:

In a controversial decision, Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has been recognised for services to financial regulation despite his leading role in an organisation accused of being "asleep at the wheel" before the collapse of Northern Rock. Sir Hector also rubber-stamped RBS's disastrous acquisition of ABN Amro, which contributed to its downfall. He has since won praise for his work reforming the FSA but resigned this year and caused further controversy by joining Barclays as its head of compliance. He is believed to be in line for a £3m pay package.
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:55 pm  
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I've spoken to a couple of royals – does that count?


I'm trying to think of the most prestigious person that I have spoken to but can't bring one to mind...


...no still can't think of one.

Put me down for standing next to Lord Harewood (Queens cousin no less) at the cash machine and we'll leave it at that.
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:00 pm  
I've just thought of one - The Honourable Simon Howard of Castle Howard fame, I nodded and said "Hello" to him when strolling through his dining room one day - I was visiting in tourist mode of course.

He nodded back and also said "Hello".

Although it might not have been him, I told my wife that The Honourable SImon Howard has just spoken to me and pointed him out, walking away from us, she just said "Thats not him you idiot"

She could have been right, the chap I spoke to was wearing overalls and carrying a folding table to somewhere, but he LOOKED like The Honourable Simon Howard who I am sure must carry his own tables around from time to time.
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Re: New Year Honours list : Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:31 pm  
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The CBE is just below a knighthood isn't it? The MBE is the bottom rung of the award ladder.

It is, but 4 golds normally = K (see Chris Hoy). I can see the argument for leaving some room for manoeuvre after Rio, but again Hoy got his K with London on the horizon.

IMO, all gold medallists should have got an O, moving up depending on the achievement, with other medallists getting an M, if they didn't have a gong already.

And love him or loathe him, Murray should have got a CBE. First British male Wimbledon finalist for years, gold medallist and first British Grand Slam winner for over 75 years.
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