New Years Honours

[grumpy01]

Great to see Kevin Sinfield and Rob Burrow have been awarded CBE's.An even more deserving award IMO is the British Empire Medal to little Tony Hudgell for his efforts in raising awareness of child abuse.

[jno]

are they in Truss's list or Sunak's?

[grumpy01]

These are the New Years honours.Truss's honours were for people who worked with and for her.

[Buenchico]

Much to my amazement, Liz Truss finally seems to have got something right in her own honours list:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/liz-truss-lace-jilly-cooper-british-author-b2471102.html

(Written as a former maths teacher!)

[Hymie]

According to the BBC there were 1,200 gongs given out – anyone on here not got one?

[Tuvok]

Never heard of them - who are they?

[MargoTester]

Both ex rugby players. Rob Burrow contracted MND and raises awareness of this horrible disease and Kevin Sinfield has raised over £8 million. You should google them if you have a minute both inspirational people 

[Ken4155]

I've seen the list and, as usual, along with the governing party's donors (Labour do it when they're in power)it contains lots of people being awarded for simply doing their 'day job'. Jobs which, in many cases, have given those people a very high standard of living and that shoud be reward enough.

There are those on the list who deserve some sort of award for devoting a part of their lives to charitable causes, and that's what the Honours List ought to be for. In my most humble of opinions, of course.

[bazwillrun]

"According to the BBC there were 1,200 gongs given out – anyone on here not got one?"

you should get one for services to Brexit...youve done more on here than anybody to  convince people how right they were to vote to get out of the eureich, a job well done...

[andy-hughes]

And the 'It's Actually My Job ... ' Award goes to Justin Welby for crowning the king.

[jno]

I believe he actually got that from the king, andy, royal honours that don't have to go through politicians and committees.

[jourdain2]

Kev Sinfield thoroughly deserves his Honour - he should, by rights, be knighted.  However he is already referred to as 'Sir Kev' up here already, which is probably more important to him.  How many people could raise about £8million to  fight what was an obscure disease like MND?  There now exists a specialised unit to research and aid.

To anyone who watched Rugby League, Kev, Rob and Jamie were almost the Holy Trinity when playing.  The man carried his friend over the end line after running a marathon!  He has just run  (I think I'm right) 27 marathons in 27 days plus an extra mile on each. (My brain's jammed, sorry, but I  think it's 27 - which seems incredible.)

Thanks grumpy01 for posting this.

[jourdain2]

^^^ 'Jamie' is Jamie Peacock, who now commentates, but who has also run marathons, fund-raised etc..