What Gall, What Arrogance....

[boxtops]

..at a time when we're remembering those who gave their lives! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2110015/We-deserve-medal-Ex-MPs-special-award-marking-service-country.html

[kvalidir]

Clueless, self absorbed idiots :(

[Sqad]

boxy....LOL....good fun, this is now.................

100years ago, you just got on with your life and your work, didn't look for praises or congratulations, but now 100 years on things are different.

The media, the internet, congratulations for your son or relative getting a degree, baby born, well done etc etc........different mentality....different people....different era.

[shoota]

Self-aggrandisement is a rampant ailment.

[starone]

What a cheek - the inefficient lot! A medal for sending the country to the dogs and making a complete mess of it all?

[Peaspeculiars]

erm.. a medal - what? for going to work and getting paid for it?
did I miss something or isn't that what we all do?

[Sqad]

starone...i have been worried about you.........have you been away?

[starone]

Oh, thanks sqad, I didn't think it would be noticed if I wasn't there. I'm O.K. thanks - just got a bit bored with Answerbank so haven't been popping in so much. Also, because I am so old some of my contemporaries have stopped contributing and there are lots of new young people here that I don't really know. I mostly have a read of the posts every night so I am still here, but only a fraction of my former self. Hope you are well and still going strong.

[stuey]

Well they did stand up, in Parliament, and speak for their country, so award them all with a (order of the) garter to be worn prominently on their right legs on ceremonial occasions.

[boxtops]

I think there's only about 12 of them allowed to join the Garter, stuey :-)

[Sqad]

LOL.....yes I am still going.

AB doesn't have much time for the opinion of "oldies", the younger "breed " seem to have all the answers.

At times, I feel that we are ridiculed, but it doesn't bother me starone.........keep on posting.

P.S I hope yopu have stopped that bloody dieting.

[stuey]

In that case, give them all a night hood.

[jno]

nothing to do with WW1, though; that's just coincidence.

I can't really think of any reason why people shouldn't have things like old school ties if they want them. Gold medals seem a bit OTT, but I wouldn't call it arrogance; there's no suggestion that we're paying for them. And it is a bit odd if anyone can buy cuff links with the monogram and yet MPs can't wear it.

[jno]

actually, it's not a conincidence. The story is two years old.

[boxtops]

Jno - thank you for spotting that, I didn't. It came through to me today on FB....

[starone]

Yes, sqad, now resigned to being a little fat woman. I like food too much.

[jno]

weird the way old stories suddenly pop up on "Most Popular Stories" lists and suchlike. Probably some celeb reads them and retweets them and everyone suddenly goes to have a look. They could take a lesson from AB and block stories from reappearing after a month.

[Prudie]

Though you might find it shocking arrogance, the awarding of medals within the public sector has long been commonplace. For example the Imperial Service Medal is given to all civil servants below a certain grade who have manged to work 25 years without too much sick or black marks on their file. This seems just another example. Their issue is about the design rather than the medal itself.

[gness]

If you are awarded a medal and you do something wrong/bad do you have to return the medal?

If so, they won't have to (what's the word I'm looking for?) many of them.... they can just have a few doing the rounds....

[Prudie]

mint?

[gness]

Thank you, Prudie.....it's either the second glass of red or being sixty three.....☺