[arista]

[Liz Truss announces her 'trimmed' honours list
of 11 people including a Tory donor
and Brexit campaign chief - despite being
Prime Minister for just 49 days]


[She nominated life peers including
Sir Jon Moynihan, a Conservative party donor,
Matthew Elliott, who ran the Brexit campaign in 2016,
and Ruth Porter, her deputy chief of staff in No 10.]


[Former chief executive of the
Vote Leave Brexit Matthew Elliott
has been nominated for a peerage by
former prime minister Liz Truss, and
Tory MP Jacqueline Doyle-Price has been
nominated for a damehood.]


Ruth Porter



[Tory donor Sir Jon Moynihan]



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-49-days.html

[Zizu]

Why are the government not taken to task about giving honours out to undeserving people ?


It just seems blatantly wrong if not criminal


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[bitontheslide]

the honours are a joke and they always have been. No more needs to be said

[Gusto Brunt]

All honours are a complete joke anyway. If it gives some Tory MP the 'right' to call himself a Sir - then Gawd blimey. It's only a word.

Crazy. Nobody has any honours in my view. They're all plain the name they were born with.

Anyone who wants to bow down to Sirs and Lords, then get a life.

[thesheriff443]

It’s not what you know it’s who you know

And nice work if you can get it

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

the honours are a joke and they always have been. No more needs to be said

Absolutely.

Do away with the whole process in my view.

[Oliver_W]

I don't necessarily take against the idea of a second chamber where laws etc can be scrutinised and bounced back for various reasons. I don't even particularly care that it amounts to a job for life.

But should someone who spent less than two months as PM get to choose who gets those seats?

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I don't necessarily take against the idea of a second chamber where laws etc can be scrutinised and bounced back for various reasons. I don't even particularly care that it amounts to a job for life.

But should someone who spent less than two months as PM get to choose who gets those seats?

it's how it has always been, there is no requirement that a PM must serve a particular length of time to qualify. It's like an MP gets a full pension whether they serve for a day or 10 years