Gawd Help Us, You Can't Even Call Someone By Their Correct Name And Title!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43557516
So must we now know not only someones name but their preferred appellation?

[Hopkirk]

Are you saying she is not using her correct name?

[Mamyalynne]

The Speaker has spoken and for Boris to claim it was inadvertent when he had to ask for a reminder of her title was shabby.

End of the matter for me.

[pixie374]

It is rude. I don't like any titles... especially Ms. A friend and I were literally just saying an hour ago that we don't know anyone who has got married in the last few years that have changed their surname. Maybe we are joining the 21st Century at last. Or possibly- it's just easier for Facebook....

[MargoTester]

Or possibly it's just easier for Facebook- I hope that was a joke Pixie

[pixie374]

I hope that isn't the reason, but it wouldn't surprise me!

[pixie374]

No, they are still getting married, some of them... just thankfully realising you don't have to become someone else if you do.

[anotheoldgit]

Nothing new there is an ABer who gets offended if you call him by his surname only.

[jackthehat]

Boris knows full-well how to address Emily Thornberry properly. It smacks of childish behaviour to refer to her title/husband's title.

AOG - try to keep the personal slights to a minimum, eh?

[whiskeryron]

The lady in question is I assume legally married & in this country it is customary when married to take ones husband's name. I therefore submit that Mr Boris Johnson far from committing an offence is in fact being extremely well behaved & correct & should receive an apology from the Commons Speaker.

[pixie374]

It isn't so much now, WR and it certainly isn't compulsory! This lady didn't, she got called by the wrong name and it was corrected.

[New Judge]

In one respect Lady Nugee is quite correct:

“I have never been a Lady and it will be a great deal more than being married to a Knight of the Realm in order to make me one.”

It’s a shame that she does not like being addressed by the title she gained courtesy of her husband’s elevation. She may well have added that it would take more than membership of the Privy Council to make her remotely “Right Honourable”.

A few years back I had a less than civilised exchange of correspondence with her. Lady Nugee was bemoaning that because of where she lived she had to send her children a considerable distance to ensure they went to a good school. I pointed out to her that had Labour’s Anthony Crosland not near enough succeeded in his pledge to "….to destroy every fecking grammar school in England. And Wales and Northern Ireland.” there would have been a perfectly decent school just half a mile from her home (my own alma mater). I expected no reply but her response was not that of a lady and certainly not that of a Right Honourable one.

As it was she had to send her children to the school at its new location some fifteen miles from her home, where it taken to exile. It had decamped from Islington to avoid the rabidity of the Inner London Education Authority which was among the first major authorities to embrace Mr Crosland’s pledge. Ostensibly it then became a “comprehensive” school (it is now an Academy) but in fact was (and still is) highly selective.

Of course under her party’s mantra, where comprehensive education is allegedly equal education for all, Lady Nugee could have sent her children to any one of a number of local State schools (e.g. Holloway Comprehensive or Dr Rhodes Boyson's old haunt - Highbury Grove School). It is a mystery (!) why she chose to subject her children to a thirty mile round trip each day and she came in for a fair bit of stick for her hypocrisy. However, being “Right Honourable” (but not, apparently a “Lady”) she simply brushed them aside.

I wish Lady Nugee well in her quest to be addressed in the manner she considers to be most appropriate. My own view of what is appropriate is not for publication on AB!

[gulliver1]

Once again Pot and Kettle comes to mind here, yes we should call people by their correct name and title, Instead of name calling like school boys in the playground "Agent Cob"-- " St Tony"-- "Salmondoski" " Twitterface" etc .

[woofgang]

Yes, its always been good manners to call people by the name that they choose....especially in public office.

[ludwig]

It's obviously a childish thing they keep doing to deliberately annoy her, and it seems to work.

[emmie]

another fuss other nothing, perhaps he didn't realise she goes by her maiden name,

[Mamyalynne]

Really??