UK New Years Honours List 2020

[RedPed]

The next round of nominations have been released with the usual mix of deserving and not so deserving getting the nod. It doesn't really take much to get a title these days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11990088

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/awards-and-accreditation

 

[Jippy]

IDS knighted for services to impoverishing the destitute.

 

[Drifter]

That cnut Duncan Smith gets a knighthood? . Just scrap it.

 

[sun_tzu]

Slightly surprise to see Ben stokes on there as well

 

[RedPed]

To be fair to Stokes he was exonerated in that affair. But the system is an absolute joke to be honest.

Some other names I've spotted in the list:

Derek Griffiths MBE
June Sarpong MBE
Francis Benali MBE
Aaron Hughes MBE
Alan Knott MBE
Helen Lederer CBE
Annie Nightingale MBE
Natasha Gordon MBE
Rudolph Walker OBE
Clive Lloyd Knighthood

 

[sun_tzu]

To be fair to Stokes he was exonerated in that affair. But the system is an absolute joke to be honest.

Some other names I've spotted in the list:

Derek Griffiths MBE
June Sarpong MBE
Francis Benali MBE
Aaron Hughes MBE
Alan Knott MBE
Helen Lederer CBE
Annie Nightingale MBE
Natasha Gordon MBE
Rudolph Walker OBE
Clive Lloyd Knighthood

Wasn't Ainsley Harriot in there as well

 

[RedPed]

Wasn't Ainsley Harriot in there as well

Yeah, these are just the other names I've spotted in the list that have not already been mentioned like Ainsley Harriott, Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, Gabby Logan, Floella Benjamin, Iain Duncan-Smith etc. That's why I didn't list those.

 

[sun_tzu]

Yeah, these are just the other names I've spotted in the list that have not already been mentioned like Ainsley Harriott, Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, Gabby Logan, Floella Benjamin, Iain Duncan-Smith etc. That's why I didn't list those.

Making Britain great again

 

[RedPed]

They're really going in hard on the women and BAME groups.

The Honours list is just a glorified Oscars without the films.

 

[SteveJ]

Has a reason been stated for IDS being knighted? For example, 'for services to (whatever)'?

 

[Damien]

Has a reason been stated for IDS being knighted? For example, 'for services to (whatever)'?

For political and public service.

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3454509

 

[RedPed]

Has a reason been stated for IDS being knighted? For example, 'for services to (whatever)'?

Knights Bachelor
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
28 December 2019
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
The Right Honourable George Iain DUNCAN SMITH M.P.
Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green
For political and public service.

Edit: Sorry @Damien beat me to it.

 

[SteveJ]

Cheers, Damo. Although the following seems the more likely reason for his award:

In 2019, Duncan Smith served as chairman for Boris Johnson's leadership campaign, resulting in an emphatic win

 

[NinjaFletch]

Has a reason been stated for IDS being knighted? For example, 'for services to (whatever)'?

Services to murdering the poor.

 

[2cents]

To be fair to Stokes he was exonerated in that affair. But the system is an absolute joke to be honest.

Some other names I've spotted in the list:

Derek Griffiths MBE
June Sarpong MBE
Francis Benali MBE
Aaron Hughes MBE
Alan Knott MBE
Helen Lederer CBE
Annie Nightingale MBE
Natasha Gordon MBE
Rudolph Walker OBE
Clive Lloyd Knighthood

Francis Benali? He must have done something outside football recently, otherwise Julian Dicks and Razor Ruddock will be next.

 

[RedPed]

Francis Benali? He must have done something outside football recently, otherwise Julian Dicks and Razor Ruddock will be next.

M.B.E.

To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Francis Vincent BENALI
Volunteer and Ambassador, Cancer Research UK
For services to Cancer Patients in the UK.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18...e-mbe-netting-huge-amount-cancer-research-uk/

 

[P-Ro]

I find it really weird that politicians get knighted when it's clear that they'll be given a peerage when they stop being an MP.

 

[Classical Mechanic]

Worth pointing out that three quarters of them go to the general public for community work. That said, I hate the political awarding of them.

 

[SteveJ]

Apparently, John Bercow is the first Speaker in 230 years not to be honoured.

 

[2cents]

M.B.E.

To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Francis Vincent BENALI
Volunteer and Ambassador, Cancer Research UK
For services to Cancer Patients in the UK.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18...e-mbe-netting-huge-amount-cancer-research-uk/

Ah good stuff, fair play to him.

 

[Mr Pigeon]

Apparently, John Bercow is the first Speaker in 230 years not to be honoured.

Well, Boris seems to be our Trump so maybe he's reading from the same Petty Playbook as well?

 

[Adisa]

The next government will honour him. He doesn't have long to wait.

 

[Stanley Road]

IDS knighted for services to impoverishing the destitute.

Yeah this one defies belief.

 

[dumbo]

heh, so he gets to stand along side a bunch of Knighted crooks and paedophiles, who very much like himself have subjected others to misery for their own personal gain. No biggie.

 

[Buster15]

Yeah this one defies belief.

Also Elton John. Companion of Honour....
I mean. He has already been knighted.
I am admittedly not a big fan. But he is hardly a role model.