New year's honours

[wendigo100]

No mention of any cricketers this time. Steve Gerrard gets a gong for carrying Liverpool for five years, and Rod Stewart for being an arse.

A knighthood was awarded to John Scarlett, chief of MI6.

He was formerly chairman of the government's Joint Intelligence Committee and his evidence during the 2002 Hutton inquiry into the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly gave crucial support to the government's case.

It was also John Scarlett who helped Blair to sex up the famous dossier with 45-minute warnings of WMDs raining on Britain.

[Mailman]

Ah, we seem to be making some progress at least because usually morons go on about 45 minutes for firing the weapons!

On the down side Im not on that list. Obviously my donation to the labour party wasnt large enough!

Mailman

[Denny]

Why haven't I got an OBE for services to the Contractor UK forum?

[thunderlizard]

Because it would look too much like an employee benefit and you'd chuck another wobbly about your IR35 status?

[Back In Business]

. . . or perhaps because contributing to these forums is considered aiding and abetting tax evasion.

[Denny]

For your information, the very person responsible for these honours (Queen) is the biggest tax evader of all.

Who is she to talk?

[Back In Business]

Well she's only been paying tax since 1992 - but to be fair nobody in her position even bothered before that.

[Nicky G]

Why are Nick Griffin and Mark Collett not on that list for their fantastic victory against the left wing establishment? It gave hope to the common man.

[hattra]

Why are Nick Griffin and Mark Collett not on that list for their fantastic victory against the left wing establishment? It gave hope to the common man.

Oh puuuuuulheees - how pathetic, Just do the human race a favour and go stick your head in a blender

[stackpole]

For your information, the very person responsible for these honours (Queen) is the biggest tax evader of all.

Who is she to talk?

Don't talk bollocks. If that were true she'd be doing time.