New Year Honours: Whitty, Van-Tam and Blair knighted, Lumley and Redgrave made dames

Let’s face it despite the hype the Queen is not and never was not anything more than an averagely intelligent badly educated woman who has managed to maintain a dying institution by almost never making waves ( apart from a couple of wobbles over Aberfan and Princess Diana ) when it’s well past it’s sell by date .She has lived her entire life in a protected bubble of privilege and deference and really has no idea how her average subject lives .

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I would definitely be protesting if he was!

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And to give him the opportunity to be a complete hypocrite so we can all see he isn’t just a murdering liar he is also an unprincipled champaigne socialist like Geldof, Gordon Brown and the rest of them.

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I looked at him now and I could not believe that was the same man!!..:open_mouth::open_mouth:

Tony Blair.

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He delivered nothing but failure.

I’m not into politics to be honest bread,there’s enough on here who are,…I was just absolutely shocked when I saw him as he is today…:open_mouth:

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I signed the petition to remove Blair’s knighthood, so have over 150,000 others. He is a war criminal.

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Van-Damme was good in Kick Boxer, have you seen him lately?

Is that a tone of resentment, Muddy?
Wait 'til Charlie-boy takes over!

Respect is needed, now more that ever.

Me too. What a shame that the powers-that-be ignore these petitions and simply respond with a polite reason for why they cannot make any changes!

Same here it’s up to about 250000 now.

It was blocking Brown, Cameron and May getting knighthoods as well.

Dear lord…

A quarter of a million objections!
Surely, they can’t just ignore such a large number.

I signed.
Made me feel a whole lot better since I was daft enough to vote for him

Nothing to be ashamed of Ruthio because it did seemed like a new beginning at first and he did do some good things National Minimum wage , child poverty and the Northern Ireland peace treaty .

Wanna bet ?

No it the voice of common sense I have nothing against the Queen personally indeed I have met her and she is charming but I am not a royalist . Charles won’t last long and William will be the last King of England the time of hereditary kings is long past .

In that case, there will be no point, watching “The Chase” or similar in 2122 :icon_wink:

I might be wrong but all ex PMs are offered a knighthood or peerage and it is thought he has already refused either .

Well he doesn’t seem to have been very strenuous in his refusal!