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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by _V_ View Post
    Sir Robert Mugabe
    Sir Tony Blair
    Sir Jimmy Savile

    Seems to fit in nicely :-)
    Wonder what Gavin Williamson has on Boris Johnson. After all he was Chief Whip under Mrs May and reported such things as Amber Rudd, single, having an "affair" with another single MP.

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  • _V_
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    Sir Robert Mugabe
    Sir Tony Blair
    Sir Jimmy Savile

    Seems to fit in nicely :-)

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    Nope - particularly if you are female.
    Indeed, few ladies get knighted at all. Outrageous sexism.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post

    All that said, don't most ex-cabinet ministers tend to get knighted anyway?
    Nope - particularly if you are female.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Gavin Williamson!
    Mr Williamson was education secretary during most of the pandemic, when he came under heavy criticism for cancelling A-levels and GCSEs two years in a row and for closing schools.
    How quickly history is rewritten. He was more criticised for the opposite reasons than stated at the time. People wanted schools to stay shut and to re-close in subsequent lock-downs, and they didn't want pupils taking exams they weren't ready for.

    He did seem a bit of a simpering fop but when you're equally criticised for doing something as for not doing it, that's a trifle unfair. Far better reasons to criticise him over the "A grades for everyone" debacle where despite pupils all missing schooling they got the best grades ever seen.

    All that said, don't most ex-cabinet ministers tend to get knighted anyway?

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    Proof, if needed, that the Queen is very unwell.
    Sneaky git.

    He did when she had Covid. Even with all the jabs you can feel like tulip.

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  • WTFH
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    Let's see...
    The A level fiasco
    Mixing up Marcus Rashford for Mario Itoje
    The Huawei leak
    ...

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    A Downing Street statement said: "The Queen has been pleased to approve that the honour of Knighthood be conferred upon The Rt. Hon. Gavin Williamson CBE MP."
    Proof, if needed, that the Queen is very unwell.

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  • SueEllen
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    Gavin Williamson!

    Only sacked twice!

    https://news.sky.com/story/ex-educat...thood-12556701

    Former education secretary Gavin Williamson has been given a knighthood, Downing Street said.
    The MP for South Staffordshire was sacked by Boris Johnson during his September 2021 cabinet reshuffle.

    Mr Williamson was education secretary during most of the pandemic, when he came under heavy criticism for cancelling A-levels and GCSEs two years in a row and for closing schools.

    A Downing Street statement said: "The Queen has been pleased to approve that the honour of Knighthood be conferred upon The Rt. Hon. Gavin Williamson CBE MP."

    No 10 did not say when he will be knighted.

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