MBE, King Charles, K-POP.

[bullet08]

So I just got home. Hop on the Internet, and found out K-POP group Blackpink was given MBE by King Chuck also known as donkey ears and other endearments. For a sec I was like "what the hell? Do they just throw those at anybody?" Check the past recipients, they do give that to just about anyone who monarch thinks good enough. But they should really try to make it more serious. Other enemies of the state might think it's too funny.

 

[brian64]

Well, this guy was knighted by both the Brits and the Pope.

And no, it wasn't a mistake...it's just the way the "elite" really are.

 

[kcghost]

Brits love it when the awards are given to deserving acts.

 

[Gimlet]

The Monarch doesn't choose who receives honours. The government does through the Cabinet Office. The King just does the investiture.

Consequently too many honours are awarded according to prevailing political fashions and moods, political nepotism and not infrequently pure virtue-signalling, rather than on genuine merit. Anyone can nominate someone for an honour but it's the Cabinet Office which decides whether to ward it. The King doesn't get a say. He has to grit his teeth and conduct the ceremonials.

 

[bullet08]

The Monarch doesn't choose who receives honours. The government does through the Cabinet Office. The King just does the investiture.

Consequently too many honours are awarded according to prevailing political fashions and moods, political nepotism and not infrequently pure virtue-signalling, rather than on genuine merit. Anyone can nominate someone for an honour but it's the Cabinet Office which decides whether to ward it. The King doesn't get a say. He has to grit his teeth and conduct the ceremonials.

Forget that the Monarch is more of a figure head, and a moral support. Tho, I thought the Queen was much more than that.

 

[brian64]

The Monarch doesn't choose who receives honours. The government does through the Cabinet Office. The King just does the investiture.

Consequently too many honours are awarded according to prevailing political fashions and moods, political nepotism and not infrequently pure virtue-signalling, rather than on genuine merit. Anyone can nominate someone for an honour but it's the Cabinet Office which decides whether to ward it. The King doesn't get a say. He has to grit his teeth and conduct the ceremonials.

The close friendship between Charles and Jimmy Savile is very well documented.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Well, this guy was knighted by both the Brits and the Pope.

And no, it wasn't a mistake...it's just the way the "elite" really are.

John Lydon called out Jimmy in 1978 during a radio interview. And what was the BBC's response? They banned John.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

The close friendship between Charles and Jimmy Savile is very well documented.

I believe it was Thatcher who decided that Jimmy deserved a Knighthood. He was friends with many of the great & good, including Maggie, Charles & Di.

I read that The Beatles didn't like him. Can't think why.

 

[Gimlet]

The close friendship between Charles and Jimmy Savile is very well documented.

Saville supported charities that the Prince was patron of so they would necessarily have worked together, but I doubt Charles knew what Saville was up to. However the BBC who gave him his public profile certainly did. It was an open secret at the corporation that you had to keep little girls away from Saville. And they repeatedly protected him from investigation because he was a bankable ratings star.

 

[Gimlet]

I believe it was Thatcher who decided that Jimmy deserved a Knighthood. He was friends with many of the great & good, including Maggie, Charles & Di.

Of course he was. That was how he hid in plain sight, which as every psychologist knows is the most effective place to hide.

It was the same with Micheal Jackson and Rolf Harris.

 

[Gimlet]

I read that The Beatles didn't like him. Can't think why.

I didn't like him when I was a child at the time of Jim'll Fix It. No one I knew did. We had no idea he was a puedo. We scarcely knew what one of those was back in those times. All we knew was he was weird trailer-trash with doll's hair, chavvy suits and smelly cigar. he seems grubby and tawdry but we didn't know why. Kids back then probably saw what he was able to hide from adults but without understanding what it was they were seeing.

Watching back today old footage from JFI when he would pat the inner thighs and stroke the legs of 12 year old girls in front of the cameras as he awarded them their JFI gong, his behaviour seems so blatant now. But those were different times. Men patted the bottoms of women they didn't know and breasts were fondled on TV comedy shows for laughs. As L P Hartley said, the past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

 

[condorlover1]

I find one of these 'Jimmy Savile' window stickers very useful for getting rid of pesky 'Trick or Treat' callers at Condor Towers...

 

[autumnfog]

An extremly vile, evil and false individual.
My guess, a socially skilled sociopath who knew which shoulders to rub.

 

[condorlover1]

I've always fancied being Lord Condor of Bogs Town-Nimrodville!

 

[Gimlet]

An extremly vile, evil and false individual.
My guess, a socially skilled sociopath who knew which shoulders to rub.

I think he got off on flaunting his crimes and getting away with it as much as he did committing them. The closer to the wind he sailed, the bigger the kick he got. It was a power game.