Queens Birthday Honours.............

[Oily Nails]

...if you look past the Welsh woman with the 'talents' some truly deserving people in the lists this year, especially
Mr & Mrs Bryn Parry founders of Help For Heroes :

BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10294866.stm

The Full List:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/11_06...




Help For Heroes website
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[The Hypno-Toad]

What has Zeta Jones done to deserve an honour? Services to fellatio?

Honestly, apart from the Help For Heroes guys, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[Bonefish Blues]

Buggles said:

Scraping the barrel is right. I applaud the Help For Heroes couple for their OBE, but then in the same list, you have that old bird from Coronation Street getting an OBE too? Kind of devalues the OBE somewhat doesn't it?

Absolutely no issue with members of the Corrie cast getting this, but CZJ, honestly!

[dcb]

Bonefish Blues said:

Absolutely no issue with members of the Corrie cast getting this, but CZJ, honestly!

I sometimes think the Queen hands out gongs to court
popularity with the masses.

I don't know which person advises her who to select, but
I've seen some amazing choices over the years.

MBE, CBE etc etc all sounds like some Victorian thing to me.

Bring on the republican revolution, comrades, and we
can consign this old junk to the history books.

[Dixie68]

dcb said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Absolutely no issue with members of the Corrie cast getting this, but CZJ, honestly!

I sometimes think the Queen hands out gongs to court
popularity with the masses.

I don't know which person advises her who to select, but
I've seen some amazing choices over the years.

MBE, CBE etc etc all sounds like some Victorian thing to me.

Bring on the republican revolution, comrades, and we
can consign this old junk to the history books.

She doesn't choose them, the government does, namely the Honours and Appointments Secretariat of the Cabinet Office.

[JontyR]

Buggles said:

Scraping the barrel is right. I applaud the Help For Heroes couple for their OBE, but then in the same list, you have that old bird from Coronation Street getting an OBE too? Kind of devalues the OBE somewhat doesn't it?

Nope....because my dad is in there and he's worked exceptionally hard for his OBE!

[AndrewW-G]

Dixie68 said:

She doesn't choose them, the government does, namely the Honours and Appointments Secretariat of the Cabinet Office.

and its safe to say that this time, the person in charge is a bit of a corrie fan

[Oily Nails]

Its all done by committees of civil servants

I believe the only Honours that a Monarch alone can bestow are:

The Most Noble Order of the Garter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter

and

The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Thistle

[Glocko]

I notice Anne Reed and Bernard Reed have got the OBE for Gender Identity Research. Are they the same person perhaps??

[timlongs]

Headteacher at my school that I just left got an OBE