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garter to turn up and i m glancing at my notebook here because this was not information lodged in my head until a couple of hours ago, there is this annual procession at windsor castle where the queen spends a good amount of time, where all of the members where velvet robes and plumed hats and they also have a lunch and a get together and originally when it was set up back in 1348 by edward the third it was a kind of aristocratic club of advisers, distinguish people in their field who were there to advise them on time and it is a little less aristocratic now but the principal still say that as you say, it is the highest honour in the complicated british honours system replete with various titles that otherwise might not get mentioned very often and lots of letters of the alphabet.
of the british honours system. the particular honour that tony blair has now given comics a souped up supercharged fuel injected knighthood that is more senior than is the one we heard about coming through the results of the other processing of the recipients today, soaps are tony blair becomes a knight companion of the most laudable noble garter. this is given dismissively by the queen and there is only a certain number, that you given any one time and you hold it until your death of the spaces that relinquish and can be given to someone else and he has not been prime ministerfor what, more someone else and he has not been prime minister for what, more than ten years. that said, john major, it took him eight years after he lost the election here in 1997 and it was 2005 before he became a knight
reward of the funding a democratic system, that donors are given access to ministers and thus able to influence policy to their own advantage. it is a perception that corrupts our system. the honours system is cheapened and the political system is made to look corrupt. this damages democracy. it is time to refocus on how our politics is funded. the system needs cleansing. it must never be the plaything of the rich, yet no one wants their politics fully funded by the state, certainly i don t. but i do think changes are necessary. legislation should limit funding by individuals, by companies, by trade unions, that no one can reasonably claim would entitle the donor to favours, rewards or undesirable