Reply to: oh dear: Knighthood of Sir Philip Green under review following BHS failure

[SueEllen]

Sir Philip Green: Support grows among MPs to strip knighthood - BBC News

If they are Labour MPs then it's anti-Semitic...

[LondonManc]

Sir Philip Green: Support grows among MPs to strip knighthood - BBC News

How will the poor fella cope?

[BrilloPad]

Sir Philip Green: Support grows among MPs to strip knighthood - BBC News

[SueEllen]

He doesn't have a KBE, and probably never will.

He was knighted in 2006 - who was PM then?

[PurpleGorilla]

Tony Blair....

He doesn't have a KBE, and probably never will.

[SueEllen]

It's his behavior that puts KBE into disrepute - he should have never obtained it in the first place.

Tony Blair....

[AtW]

But he got his knighthood for "services to the retail industry" - on the basis that he made an extraordinary contribution in his field, for which recent evidence casts doubt upon that.

It's his behavior that puts KBE into disrepute - he should have never obtained it in the first place.

[Old Greg]

I am still unclear as to EXACTLY what he has done wrong?

Did he mention Hitler or something?

Nothing that a good dose of retrospective legislation won't cure.

[centurian]

I am still unclear as to EXACTLY what he has done wrong?

Did he mention Hitler or something?

Did he do anything illegal - probably not.

But he got his knighthood for "services to the retail industry" - on the basis that he made an extraordinary contribution in his field, for which recent evidence casts doubt upon that.

[AtW]

Arson in a naval dockyard and piracy on the high seas too.

Depends on whose ships are being pirated - Spanish ones were ok....

[PurpleGorilla]

Pass but I think Stealing Rope from a Royal Dockyard is still a treasonable offence and was once punishable by hanging.

" The death penalty remained a legally defined punishment for certain offences such as treason until it was completely abolished in 1998"

As for the OPs topic, rightly or wrongly the guy has a Knighthood if he genuinely earnt it then so be it, but if he bought it through 'donations to the party' or whatever then the real shame is on those in Whitehall that condone and encourage that culture.

Arson in a naval dockyard and piracy on the high seas too.

[DallasDad]

When was the last time someone was beheaded at a royal decree in the UK?

Pass but I think Stealing Rope from a Royal Dockyard is still a treasonable offence and was once punishable by hanging.

" The death penalty remained a legally defined punishment for certain offences such as treason until it was completely abolished in 1998"

As for the OPs topic, rightly or wrongly the guy has a Knighthood if he genuinely earnt it then so be it, but if he bought it through 'donations to the party' or whatever then the real shame is on those in Whitehall that condone and encourage that culture.

[BrilloPad]

Nice. Hope that he is also sent to a prison in Congo or Saudi Arabia for the rest of his retarded life.

When was the last time someone was beheaded at a royal decree in the UK?

And what is his crime? Being rich?

For a while he bought jobs and prosperity the tens of thousands.

[FatLazyContractor]

Nice. Hope that he is also sent to a prison in Congo or Saudi Arabia for the rest of his retarded life.

When was the last time someone was beheaded at a royal decree in the UK?

[WTFH]

I am still unclear as to EXACTLY what he has done wrong?

Did he mention Hitler or something?

No, he didn't blame Corbyn or the BBC for his own failings.