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Dec 2019
3:08pm, 28 Dec 2019
10,371 posts
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Markymarkmark
I was aiming that at the NY honours system, but actually...
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Dec 2019
9:08pm, 28 Dec 2019
59,872 posts
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swittle
Quite so.
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Dec 2019
7:38am, 29 Dec 2019
2,416 posts
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Fellrunning
The honours system has been a rotten sycophantic luvie fest for decades if not for ever,
Reform?. It needs scrapping in its entirety.
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Dec 2019
9:39am, 29 Dec 2019
13,147 posts
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richmachristmas
+1 for that. Apart from Floella Benjamin
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Dec 2019
10:48am, 29 Dec 2019
20,236 posts
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TRO Saracen
Can’t get worked up either way about the Honours system. Plenty of more important things to be concerned about....
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Dec 2019
11:21am, 29 Dec 2019
8,332 posts
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simbil
Yep, the negotiating back-foot (partly self imposed) that we find ourselves on with the EU is much more concerning than an old system that has zero impact on most people's daily life.
More debatable is the change that may be made to the treasury 'green book' that is used to priortise investments that will provide a better return.
On the one hand, it is a good thing to stop political vanity projects and vote buying, but on the other hand it means that lots of investment is focused in the South East.
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Dec 2019
11:27am, 29 Dec 2019
59,882 posts
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swittle
One dubious outcome of the most recent announcement of honours: full contact details of high profile recipients accidentally 'released'. Through human error, of course: few top civil servants would see themselves as merely human these days and Sedwill may in all likelihood keep his job.
At least those given awards for gallantry were not similarly compromised....
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Jan 2020
11:51pm, 1 Jan 2020
2,417 posts
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Fellrunning
The one bright spot in the honours nepofiasco is that Farage didn't receive the hoped for peerage/knighthood/trinket he thought he'd been promised in exchange for collapsing the Brexit party.
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Jan 2020
8:21am, 2 Jan 2020
9,883 posts
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Joopsy
Too soon FR, it will come.
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Jan 2020
8:46am, 2 Jan 2020
8,333 posts
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simbil
Keir leading in public option polls and across all demographics apart from Brexiters.
Labour will no doubt select a less popular leader though as they are still stuck in a purity over practically mindset. Easily done as Long Bailey is in second place in the popularity poll.
Meanwhile economic predictions of a fizzle to the ‘Boris bounce’ and a difficult year ahead.
And BrexitCentral will be wound up soon due to Brexit being ‘done’ and definitely nothing to do with it now being the hard part.
No US deal expected to develop this side of their November election.
Let me know when we reach those sunlit uplands.
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