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  1. Tim Martin - peddler of cheap booze, pro-Brexit campaigner, leading employer of young people on minimum wage and split shifts, and twat - knighthood.

    Guy who has prevented 29 suicides on the London Underground - MBE (the lowest honour that can be bestowed)

    Useless and short-lived Prime Minister appoints three new life peers, including a Tory donor and her chief of staff.

    That's all you need to know about the honours system.

    #NewYearsHonourList
    #HonoursSystem
    #Cronyism
    #ElectoralReform

  2. Tim Martin - peddler of cheap booze, pro-Brexit campaigner, leading employer of young people on minimum wage and split shifts, and twat - knighthood.

    Guy who has prevented 29 suicides on the London Underground - MBE (the lowest honour that can be bestowed)

    Useless and short-lived Prime Minister appoints three new life peers, including a Tory donor and her chief of staff.

    That's all you need to know about the honours system.

    #NewYearsHonourList
    #HonoursSystem
    #Cronyism
    #ElectoralReform

  3. So we've had the report into the #HonoursSystem, confirming what a corrupt anachronism it is.....now comes the very #British part where the Report is ignored and the Posh keep on screwing us over.
    #UKPOL

  4. So we've had the report into the #HonoursSystem, confirming what a corrupt anachronism it is.....now comes the very #British part where the Report is ignored and the Posh keep on screwing us over.
    #UKPOL

  5. CW: UK Pol yet more Tory Corruption

    A cross-party committee of senior #peers has criticised #BorisJohnson for bringing the #HonoursSystem into question

    Report expresses disapproval at former PM’s attempts to fill upper house with his supporters
    theguardian.com/politics/2023/ #HoL #HouseOfLords #ToryCorruption

  6. CW: UK Pol yet more Tory Corruption

    A cross-party committee of senior #peers has criticised #BorisJohnson for bringing the #HonoursSystem into question

    Report expresses disapproval at former PM’s attempts to fill upper house with his supporters
    theguardian.com/politics/2023/ #HoL #HouseOfLords #ToryCorruption

  7. Boris #Johnson controversy calls entire #honourssystem into question, warns damning Lords report

    It’s been a broken, corrupt and abused system for some years.

    independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli

  8. Boris #Johnson controversy calls entire #honourssystem into question, warns damning Lords report

    It’s been a broken, corrupt and abused system for some years.

    independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli

  9. CW: Johnson plans to give his dad a knighthood. Senior Tories say it discredits the honours system.

    Boris Johnson’s plan to give father knighthood ‘corrodes public trust’, Tories warn | The Independent
    (My note: The honours system has been being discredited for a long time already if it was ever not discredited.)
    #Johnson
    #JohnsonsDad
    #HonoursSystem
    #Nepotism
    #MeToo
    #Nokes
    #SexualAbuse
    #Tories

    independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli

  10. 🔵 Boris Johnson faces accusations of cronyism after nominating father for knighthood

    The former PM put father Stanley Johnson forward for a knighthood as part of his list of resignation honours

    #UK #News #Politics #BorisJohnson #HonoursSystem #PrimeMinister

    nationalworld.com/news/politic

  11. 🔵 Boris Johnson faces accusations of cronyism after nominating father for knighthood

    The former PM put father Stanley Johnson forward for a knighthood as part of his list of resignation honours

    #UK #News #Politics #BorisJohnson #HonoursSystem #PrimeMinister

    nationalworld.com/news/politic