cressida Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-year-honours-list-2023-high-awards/new-year-honours-list-2023-high-awards-html Glad to see Mary Quant and Virginia McKenna have been honoured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Why? They were only doing a job which made them a lot of money. What about the people who helped them to get there and were paid a pittance compared to them. Sorry but that is my opinion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 1 hour ago, ukdobby said: Kamara?why,4 women footballers?what's up with the other 7?Rachel Riley? It's been said before these are a joke. What about our previous Prime Ministers, don't they always get an honour or are put in the House of Lords? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron99 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 3 hours ago, ukdobby said: Kamara?why,4 women footballers?what's up with the other 7?Rachel Riley? It's been said before these are a joke. Yeah, I thought Rachel Reily? She doesn't even do the words on Countdown. Then I checked out and why she has been awarded her MBE. It's for combating antisemitism & raising awareness of the Holocaust. She's also worked with the Centre for Countering Digital Hate to combat online abuse. When they start handing out the gongs in the Summer, one guy I've been reading about today, definitely deserves one. Gary McKee from Cumbria. He's raised more than £800,000 for Mcmillan & a local hospice by running a marathon everyday since Jan 1st this year & he's just finished his last one today. He's fitted the marathons around his normal daily life & would sometimes run a marathon before going off to work. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey19 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 5 minutes ago, Baron99 said: Yeah, I thought Rachel Reily? She doesn't even do the words on Countdown. Then I checked out and why she has been awarded her MBE. It's for combating antisemitism & raising awareness of the Holocaust. She's also worked with the Centre for Countering Digital Hate to combat online abuse. When they start handing out the gongs in the Summer, one guy I've been reading about today, definitely deserves one. Gary McKee from Cumbria. He's raised more than £800,000 for Mcmillan & a local hospice by running a marathon everyday since Jan 1st this year & he's just finished his last one today. He's fitted the marathons around his normal daily life & would sometimes run a marathon before going off to work. Someone needs to nominate him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukdobby Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 1 hour ago, Baron99 said: Yeah, I thought Rachel Reily? She doesn't even do the words on Countdown. Then I checked out and why she has been awarded her MBE. It's for combating antisemitism & raising awareness of the Holocaust. She's also worked with the Centre for Countering Digital Hate to combat online abuse. When they start handing out the gongs in the Summer, one guy I've been reading about today, definitely deserves one. Gary McKee from Cumbria. He's raised more than £800,000 for Mcmillan & a local hospice by running a marathon everyday since Jan 1st this year & he's just finished his last one today. He's fitted the marathons around his normal daily life & would sometimes run a marathon before going off to work. We’ll she hasn’t raised it enough. Gary Mkee does deserve it but the media doesn’t follow him like the celebs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Gee Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, Mister Gee said: Haven't a few of those died? Is the honour automatically returned when they die? Does that mean they can't have it engraved on their headstones? Quite glad Grayson Perry has become a Sir, and Sir Brian May sounds about right. Edited January 1, 2023 by Anna B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipstaff Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 I thought HM The King would be 'upgrading' and improving the national honours system, but it doesn't look likely that it will happen for a while yet. It seems that they are still awarded to people for 'earning their living' and being nudged in the right direction! I don't think, other than service personnel and a number of those 'ordinary citizens' that have gone over and above for their communities that there are any really deserving of these honours. I nominated two people in my midst who had between them performed over 100 years of service (mostly voluntarily) for the benefit of our communities. Their efforts put them in personal danger many times. Neither had been selected! It makes you wonder doesn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 YAY the yearly moan about people getting them and why Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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