Should Liz Truss Be Allowed To Grant Resignation Honours?

[sp1814]

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-resignation-honours-list-major-donor-peerages-2232637

[sp1814]

Not so much *who* is being enobled but the brass neckery of her being able to give them!

[davebro]

No - no one should. The whole honours system is an anachronistic shambles.

[douglas9401]

The enfeebled are just as entitled to play dressing up as the rest of us.

No point in moaning about the useless, corrupt chancers who run our show if, as appears to be the case, nothing will rouse us from our torpor and have us take to the streets to deal with them head on.

[Old_Geezer]

She doesn't grant honours. She can only nominate.

[Peter Pedant]

actually quite a balanced article
and I wd expect her to honour (her) yesterday's men - no one else will !
hur hur hur

actually I think history will prove her right ( very right instead of the current very wrong) as economic growth was / is the way out and that was correct

and the banks didnt like it - - - look att them now!

[Peter Pedant]

She doesn't grant honours. She can only nominate.

yeah foo - only a problem with Boris ( dear Boris, I luv him, or else I will get deleted) - and one can see why
and.... Harold Wilson ( Forkbenders lavender list)

[Peter Pedant]

The enfeebled are just as entitled to play dressing up as the rest of us.

and get £300 a day for wearing a funny hat

[sp1814]

Yes - I should’ve said ‘nominated’, but that’s not the point. Her only legacy is that every other British PM can confidently say they’re not the worst (not even Johnson) - so why should she even be allowed a resignation honours list?

[ToraToraTora]

out going PMs get to nominate honours. Should or shouldn't doesn't come into it. She's an outgoing PM, end of.

[rowanwitch]

Because it's tradition, and our system is firmly entrenched in the mire of ritual and 'continuity'. It might be time to have a minimum term of office before you can nominate leaving honours, barely warming the seat shouldn't count.

[naomi24]

I agree with TTT. As fleeting as her premiership was, she was PM.

[bhg481]

Of course she has the right because that's the rule but anybody with a shred of decency would forgo the privilege.

[Zacs-Master]

This article from 8 years ago was calling for reform. It’s now even longer overdue:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/enough-is-enough-time-to-regulate-prime-ministerial-appointments-to-the-lords/

[ToraToraTora]

TBH I sort of think she should not but you can't just change the rules because of one candidate. By all means abolish the tradition altogether starting now. Now I have my K from Boris I'm not bothered. Sir TTT.

[sp1814]

It may be traditional but I think her reputation would go up enormously if she said, “You know what - as I was only in the job for less than two months, I forgo the right to resignations honours. It just doesn’t feel right”.

[sp1814]

She doesn’t HAVE to nominate, right?

[Ken4155]

^
Or, she may decide to make good any promises made to those who helped put her in the hot seat?

[Zacs-Master]

She’s probably under pressure from other Con MPs to boost the number of Con peers which aids the passing of Con bills thru parliament. She’s just playing the game.

[anneasquith]

She has a brass neck .

[THECORBYLOON]

Not all former Prime Ministers have issued a resignation honours list.

From 2016, "The David Cameron resignation honours list in August 2016, was the first time an outgoing Prime Minister issued a list, specifically on resignation, since John Major in 1997. Since 1963, only four retiring Prime Ministers have issued resignation honours lists."

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