Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Nicolas Byron DRINKAL Deputy Director, Border Force, Home Office. For services to Border Security in Calais and Dunkirk. (Dover, Kent) receives an O.B.E.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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John Charles THOMPSON Administrative Officer, Detection Technology Management Unit, Border Force South and Europe, Home Office. For services to Border Security.
(Dover, Kent)
Martin Piers Grant THOMPSON Higher Officer, Border Force, Home Office. For services to Border Security.
(Ashford, Surrey)
BORDER FORCE accolades. Methinks the establishment don't wan them to retire before BREXIT.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Ms Karyn DUNNING Head of Detained Casework, Immigration
Enforcement, Home Office. For services to Asylum and Humanitarian Operations.
(Kent)
Anne Danson, Mrs FORBES Refugee Resettlement Co-ordinator, Ashford Borough Council. For services to the Resettlement of Syrian Refugees in the UK.
(Ashford, Kent)
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Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
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A good incentive to stay rather than quit before the excrement hits the fan post Brexit.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I can visualise the conversation in Downing Street: "Why would you give gongs to the real commoners? Shouldn't we just keep the for ourselves and distribute them to our mates?"
Sir Establishment Figure 2: "I didn't even realise that you could get them if you didn't go to my school. Oh...hang on. Give some to those 9 people we want to keep in the Border Force ahead of BREXIT."
Sir Establishment Figure 3: "Okay. I'll get 9 extra ones made."
Sir Establishment Figure 2: "Oh...also, don't forget Grenfell."
Sir Establishment Figure 3: "Don't be ridiculous. We don't do posthumous gongs. Joyce Grenfell died yonks back."
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Button
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I'm guessing that the Captain is acquainted with the Thompson twins?
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Button wrote:I'm guessing that the Captain is acquainted with the Thompson twins?
Blistering barnacles! Well spotted, Button.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Does anyone know what Nick Clegg got a knighthood for? His main claims to fame appear to be betraying students and keeping Dave in power for five years, I can't honestly think of a single achievement by him.
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Does anyone know what Nick Clegg got a knighthood for? His main claims to fame appear to be betraying students and keeping Dave in power for five years, I can't honestly think of a single achievement by him.
He kept true democracy out of arm's reach my choosing the "Alternative Vote" (which nobody wanted). Proportional Representation it wasn't! He kept the people from having genuine control and therefore got a big gong for maintaining the status quo for at least a generation more.
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Brian Dixon
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or for being camerons puppet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The Bishop wrote:He kept true democracy out of arm's reach my choosing the "Alternative Vote" (which nobody wanted). Proportional Representation it wasn't! He kept the people from having genuine control and therefore got a big gong for maintaining the status quo for at least a generation more.
I voted for the "alternative vote" as nothing else was on offer but it stands to reason that as around two thirds of people vote Conservative or Labour it was never going to happen. I would love to see proportional representation as it would mean the end of the big two running the country with 36% of the vote.
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Weird Granny Slater
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Does anyone know what Nick Clegg got a knighthood for?
Surely as a reminder to current and future servants of democracy that it isn't necessary to have 'possession of principles' in your skill set, as 'the appearance of the possession of principles' will do just as well. How on earth would you fill the debating chambers of national and local government otherwise?
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John Buckley
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And so the charade continues, never failing to amaze!
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Captain Haddock
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A solution to this Nick Clegg knighthood thingy. When the queen is about to present it, she should tell him she's changed her mind. See how he likes it.
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