Cricket humiliation - Honours fiasco

Despite my optimism in an earlier post, the English cricket team has collapsed to a 5-0 defeat in the Ashes series in Australia - rolled over and died like a collective bunch of lily livered curs who should never have represented their country in the first place. They have made us a laughing stock! Harsh well, maybe but hell hath no fury like an Englishman humiliated.

Anyway that said, brings me to the main point of this article. The humiliating defeat only highlights the completely debased lunacy that is now our Honours system, these self same cricketers having 'earned' the MBE from a 'grateful nation' for narrowly beating the Australians last year.





It is not just with the advantage of hindsight that I found such largesse highly embarrassing and grossly inappropriate for I squirmed at the time that the Queen's Honours List could be so misused by a government scrabbling for cheap popularity at all costs. Well the chickens have come home to roost in devastating fashion, the jeers of the Australians cynically demanding knighthoods from 'their Queen' ringing in the ears of our demoralised cricketers.





Meanwhile we have to find a disused airfield somewhere in the Isle of Skye for the England 'team' to fly back to - and ensure that no rotten eggs are anywhere in the vicinity!!