Should The Word Empire Be Removed From The Honours List?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1236840/labour-leadership-news-lisa-nandy-OBE-british-empire-labour-party-news

[emmie]

No, she should just mind her own business.

[Bobbisox1]

I wonder what they would call if ?
Maybe the whole honours list should be looked at in depth

[emmie]

perhaps, but until such time she should just concentrate on running for the leadership.

[dannyk13]

No.

[Bobbisox1]

She’d like the ‘ Order of British Excellence’ put there, so I assume that would include the Sirs Stewart and Connery ( to name but two) who prefer to live in the States?

[emmie]

why do they want to sweep our history under the carpet, wish they would shut the hell up.

[douglas9401]

With a profile lower than the dust under the carpet, advisers stressed the need for the candidate to include Benjamin Zephaniah in her ramblings for wider coverage and to deter feart white folk from criticising her.

[Bobbisox1]

Because it’s fashionable now to do so, Piers Morgan put the question to two black gentleman earlier
“ So you dont think the Empire helped anyway in history” the answer was an emphatic NO!
( sorry about the SO, AH, it was a quote) :0}

[jno]

since the British Empire has long since crumbled into the fairly meaningless "Commonwealth", I can't see the slightest reason for keeping it in the honours list. You might as well accept an honour from the Roman Empire. If it's a purely British honour, say so.

[douglas9401]

Queen Victoria's long gone but her medal lingers on, jno, maybe it shold be updated too.

I know, The Kate Kross, blow away the cobwebs of history and thrust for the sunny uplands etc etc.

[jno]

I thought renaming it "Order of British Excellence" wasn't a bad idea, keeping the abbreviation while dragging it into the 21st century. I don't know if St Michael and St George are still dishing out baubles, though. St Michael's mostly gone into underwear these days.

[Bobbisox1]

I don’t the St Michael does that now jno, I think he was unceremoniously sacked of that honour :0}

[naomi24]

No. People like her, given the opportunity, would erase all tradition and any history that doesn't sit well with their aspirations for society.

She said she’s //a 'sceptic' about role of Royal Family// and that //“The self-confident, empowered country I will lead will be one that is different.//

Sure would!! Let’s hope it never happens!

[Bobbisox1]

^^ think^^

[Bobbisox1]

Sounds like a Corbynite to me Naomi

[ToraToraTora]

usual h0rse tish from the anti British, NO!

[Spicerack]

Yep, embarrassing that with all the things she could have focused her giant intellect on, she thought this would 'play' best with vacuous Labour supporters.
Actually, she's probably right which is why Labour is finished.
I hear Aaron Banks is getting an OBE. That'll be fun.

[ToraToraTora]

jno supports the anti British, what a surprise!

[ludwig]

Yes. It doesn't exist any more. They should name the honour after something that still does, like the Commonwealth.

[jno]

TTT, did you notice that I praised the idea of keeping the word "British" in the name?