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Showing posts with label Honours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Honours. Show all posts

06 September 2007

Tycoon Refused Lordship Offers Brown Money

One of Labour’s most prominent backers, who vowed not to donate any more money after being dragged into the cash-for-honours inquiry, is prepared to fund a Gordon Brown-led general election campaign.
Sir Gulam Noon, the food tycoon whose nomination for a peerage was blocked after he was advised by Labour not to declare a £250,000 loan, has told The Times that he may convert the loan into a donation after being impressed by the new Prime Minister...
His nomination was blocked because he omitted the loan from his form. The police interviewed Sir Gulam twice under caution as they tried to establish whether there had been a conspiracy to sell honours. (The Times)
I wonder if this will be in return for another shot at getting a "K or a big P"?

25 July 2007

The problem with giving honours to "unsung heroes" is that as soon as you have given them it, they are no longer "unsung heroes" but, for the lack of a better phrase, sung heroes.

It's all well and good to want to give a "substantially higher" number of honours for community work, beyond the current 40%, but there are (a) only so many people who have done 20 years as a lollipop lady or something, and (b) the people who do this sort of community work tend to be the sort who don't want or need this sort of "honour".

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