Honours List - come on fill yer boots

[ff1d1l]

If you don't like this plague-ridden, corrupt,fascist sh-thole then simply sling your hook and emigrate, no one is forcing you to stay here moaning your guts out all of of the time.

Johnson and his cronies were elected to rule and everyone knows how they work, so obviously no problem there.

I am happy with it, my lot won the election, so sorry chum, no one cares what you think.

Ah, the return of the emboldened Mick-the-P...
The scum is rising.

 

[Bob McC]

He’ll flounce off soon enough.
He always does.
Just a dying ex pat key board warrior now.

 

[Tony L]

IIRC Yaxley Lennon is off to Spain now as Little England just isn’t gammon enough for him!

 

[Dave H.]

IIRC Yaxley Lennon is off to Spain now as Little England just isn’t gammon enough for him!

Hope he integrates fully with Spanish culture, as is right and proper.

Can’t speak the language, shouldn’t be living there, right Stephen, I mean Tommy?

 

[wacko]

If you don't like this plague-ridden, corrupt,fascist sh-thole then simply sling your hook and emigrate, no one is forcing you to stay here moaning your guts out all of of the time.
Johnson and his cronies were elected to rule and everyone knows how they work, so obviously no problem there.
I am happy with it, my lot won the election, so sorry chum, no one cares what you think.

The terminology is revealing: 'elected to rule' !

 

[flatpopely]

Every single Labour MP who said vote Conservative.

Britain is a plague-ridden, corrupt, fascist sh-thole.

I rather take exception to that. You could move to, oh I don’t know, North Korea.

 

[Colin L]

A list even worse and more corrupt than I expected, and I thought it would be bad. Sneak it out just before the summer break. They just don’t care about the stench of entitlement and corruption do they?

 

[ks.234]

Here they are:

Woodcock as a special envoy for countering violent extremism is hard to parody.

I thought they'd missed out John Mann, but he got his reward from Theresa May.

And the ‘firebrand’ trade unionist Tony Woodley, accused by the Sun of being a Conservative supporter.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

I rather take exception to that. You could move to, oh I don’t know, North Korea.

“I racked my brains to come up with an example of a worse right-wing fascist shit-hole than the U.K., and came up with North Korea”

 

[thebigfredc]

For a bit of balance and to prevent the rabid left on here from climaxIng over their computers, lets remember the Loans for Lordships scandal under Labour and not that long ago either.

Its also may be worth pondering who would have made it on Corbyns list hade he won the GE. The whole system of patronage and donations is awful though and I have no problem with putting an end to the Prime Ministers list element to the Honours awards (recognition of the Armed Forces should be retained on the other list).

 

[Woodface]

The whole thing is rotten, has been for as long as I can remember.

 

[billo]

I rather take exception to that. You could move to, oh I don’t know, North Korea.

Why go to all that effort when N. Korea is coming(s) to us?

 

[droodzilla]

For a bit of balance and to prevent the rabid left on here from climaxIng over their computers, lets remember the Loans for Lordships scandal under Labour and not that long ago either.

Its also may be worth pondering who would have made it on Corbyns list hade he won the GE. The whole system of patronage and donations is awful though and I have no problem with putting an end to the Prime Ministers list element to the Honours awards (recognition of the Armed Forces should be retained on the other list).

When making these points it's essential to distinguish between the Left (rabid or not) and the Labour Party (aka "a party with some socialists in it").

As one leftie commentator (Aaron Bastani, I think) noted yesterday, it was Blair's New Labour government that introduced the present system of appointments ro the HoL which is wide open to cronyism and other forms of abuse. Most people on the left I know want to see the HoL replaced with a democratically accountable second chamber. It feels mad that we even have to argue for that in the 21st century, but hey-ho.

As for Corbyn, I believe he has nominated people for peerages, as he's entitled to under the present system and, by and large, they have been political allies (if you're stuck with a corrupt system, you have to make the best of it). However, the last Labour manifesto did contain a strong aspiration (if not quite a commitment) to replace the HoL with an elected second chamber:

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk...stronger-pledge-for-overhaul-of-rotten-lords/

I don't think this is early strong enough (and it reflects a lack of interest, on Corbyn's part, in constitutional reform), but it's a step in the right direction.

 

[TheDecameron]

Cold War Steve-

 

[thebigfredc]

Is the middle photo shopped one Neil Warnock, the current Boro manager?

 

[deebster]

Yeah, and he doesn't look too pleased to be there

 

[matt j]

Yeah good old Colin W*nker is there, he's a regular in Cold War Steve's pictures.

 

[Tony L]

Surprised there is no Lord Mulletspoon yet.

 

[droodzilla]

Good to see one journalist prepared to use the C-word:

 

[Seanm]

I rather take exception to that. You could move to, oh I don’t know, North Korea.

Brits out.