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Doreen Lawrence To Become A Life Peer

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mikey4444 | 13:09 Wed 31st Jul 2013 | News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23519563

If anybody deserves this its Doreen.
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Can I point out that she is not getting this peerage because her son was murdered, she is getting this peerage because of the work she has done to stamp out racism and her work in the community!
14:22 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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I agree
13:10 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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So do I
13:11 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Though her fight for justice for her murdered son is admirable, I am not sure that alone deserves a peerage.
13:13 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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A life Peer for what??????????????

Anyone care to explain?
13:14 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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For her fight against racism and her community spirit
13:15 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Sigh ...
13:15 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Well, she deserves a Peerage better than some ex-Captain of Industry, who gets it by "buggers turn"

Deserves it better than some ex-crony of Thatcher, who thought that it was better do fracking Opp North, where nobody would notice, rather than the Tory-voting are around Guildford.
13:16 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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A reminder is needed it seems :::
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doreen_Lawrence
13:17 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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andy-hughes

I echo your sigh.
13:22 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Had it not been a Coloured person, would that question ^^^^ have been asked, I wonder?
13:27 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Helen Newlove was similarly honoured after her husband Garry was murdered.
I do not remember others questioning that Peerage at the time.

Equally, I do not believe that was merited either.
13:34 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Coloured ? Coloured ?

God, its like being back in the 1950's sometimes here on AB !
13:36 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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I wonder what difference there is?

Helen Margaret Newlove, Baroness Newlove is a Warrington-based community reform campaigner who was appointed as the Victims' Commissioner by the UK government in 2012. Wikipedia
13:37 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Here was AOGs take on the Helen Newlove Peerage.

// I am sure since her horrible loss she has done so very much in the fight against crime.

But being made a peer of the land, is in itself most beneficial, and I am sure that it unlocks many doors that would otherwise remain locked to the 'ordinary' person. //

A somewhat different reaction?
13:39 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Oh dear.
13:43 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Balcombe is nowhere near Guildford, mikey.
13:46 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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Re: Helen Newlove...

Ha ha ha ha ha....

Furthermore...ha ha ha ha ha.

I wait with bated breath for AOG's response.

This is going to be a blockbuster.

(I might get some popcorn...)
13:47 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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I'm ordering a Chinese ;-)
13:48 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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New Judge...my post of 13:16 today referred to Lord Howell, of Guildford.
13:51 Wed 31st Jul 2013
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pure tokenism

absolutely pathetic
13:51 Wed 31st Jul 2013

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