Arise, Sir Stanley Johnson, for services to... well, what exactly? ✒️ Simon_Kelner for ipaperviews
Stanley Johnson, father of Boris Johnson, speaks to delegates on the third day of the 2021 Conservative Party Conference
“The UK honours system rewards people for merit, service or bravery. Honours are given to deserving and high-achieving people from every section of life: from soldiers to community volunteers, performers and leaders of industry.” This splendid, high-minded sentiment, from the Royal Family’s own website, has repeatedly been traduced down the years, but this morning it stands as a grotesque parody of a practice by which accomplishment in public life is recognised.
In his resignation honours list, the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reported to have put forward around 100 people for recognition by the Monarch of the Realm. It’s not the fact this list is considerably more sizeable than that of his predecessors , or that he resigned in disgrace after an inglorious three years in power, that taints his commendations., a man whose “merit, service or bravery” appears to be limited to the achievement of having sired Boris Johnson.
It’s the other 99 or so people on the list for whom I feel sorry. Among them will be people who truly deserve recognition – charity workers, public servants and titans of industry, for instance.
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