Captain Tom Knighthood
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KenL
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Nice one.
SocketRocket
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That's really good. Someone who has become a beacon of hope in this bad time.
Thoroughly deserved
Doon frae Troon
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Sainthood first, Shirley.
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Will women be throwing their knickers bloomers at this Sir Tom as well? 
Robster59
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I'm going to play Devils Advocate here. Certainly he inspired people to donate to him for the NHS which is great, and by dint of that he has raised almost £33m. Fantastic!
I'm just not sure that constitutes receiving a knighthood when other people have given their lives to raising money, saving people, etc. without the publicity or the praise.
I'm just not sure that constitutes receiving a knighthood when other people have given their lives to raising money, saving people, etc. without the publicity or the praise.
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I fully get what you are saying and TBH I quite agree. However, it doesn't cost anything to award this honour and in these current times I think any feelgood story is quite welcome.
Arise Sir Tom
rulefan
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Perhaps I'm being a tad cynical but surely it was the media that caused the mountain of money.
But I certainly wish him well
backwoodsman
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Well, I raised these very thoughts a few week back (when it was still about 15 million). And crikey, the names i got called for doing so ...
SocketRocket
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Just take a look at the normal Honours lists and see the civil servants and celebrities who have done nothing much of note. Who could deny him his day in the sun.
azazel
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Plenty people have bought honours using "donations" that have gone to much worse places than the money he's raised for the NHS...
Which is exactly why the honours system should be scrapped immediately along with the House of Lords and the royal family.
Robster59
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I knew playing Devils Advocate would get some responses 
For what it's worth, I think there are lots of knighthoods handed out willy nilly and with some of them just because they're long serving civil servants for example, or handed out as favours by the government.
For what it's worth, I think there are lots of knighthoods handed out willy nilly and with some of them just because they're long serving civil servants for example, or handed out as favours by the government.
rulefan
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Ye. It's the civil servants I resent most. They are only doing what they are paid for with a guaranteed inflation proof pension.
I speak as an ex civil servant.
I speak as an ex civil servant.
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Wasn't he promoted to major for his birthday? Yet still called captain in the press
Old Skier
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Colonel
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That's the one! However everyone calling him captain tom on news
Considering he is long retired it is all a bit academic isn't it? Now he is Sir does the army rank get dropped and he becomes Sir Tom?
Wolf
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Not normally no, would be known as Captain Sir Tom Moore.
What level of the forces do you have to be at to retain your rank in your title once back in civvie street?
Never understood it but that is for another thread.
