I bl00dy hope not!

On topic, respective presidents of the Bar Council and Law Society are no longer touched by the butter knife after they leave office. I should hope so, they are only 12-month terms. That said, they both leave their lucrative posts for less paid public service that, theoretically at least, advances the community of legal service users (a £multi-billion industry).

The change does reflect a change of honours pass-out. These days, it is he or she who has garnered popular press coverage; and those rewarded for party loyalty. Not exactly a reward for selfless public duty is it.

Then again, was it ever so? 7% of the population are privately educated. 50 years ago, I suspect there was hardly a person knighted who did not come from that small, privileged, demographic cabal.

The Lord's should be called the RFF.
Starmer making the odious Tom Watson a Lord.
Boris putting forward two "advisors" aged 27 & 30 years old.
Both left office early!
Nuts!

Football managers are difficult to beat in terms of reward for failure. If they don't meet expectations, which are often set unrealistically high, they are sacked with a huge payoff.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

For a time I worked for quite a large industrial machine company, they employed about 12000 people, I couldn't believe the number of times a middle or senior manager screwed up (largely because they were incompetent & should never have been in that position in the first place) & several weeks later there would be an announcement on the company website that they were being promoted into even higher positions that they knew even less about -

It seemed to be a regular magic roundabout to get these guys higher up the tree so they were less involved in the day to day business -

Whilst this was going on, good guys that knew their stuff were being thrown to the wolves (fired) because they were concentrating on doing their job & not playing the political game - It was certainly a bizarre period -

I concur, the Lords needs disbanding and we need a new upper chamber to review legislation.

There are doubtless some competent and sensible people there but the institution is devalued by the political appointments. Plenty of examples from all parties.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Hitler used to give the same job title to multiple people....let them fight it out. Thus the Furher kept his own position unassailable.

I saw an equivalent at an education institution in South London. A senior manager had a team of utter numpties who could barely tie their own shoelaces. He would always defend them for their regular failings. The one thing he would not abide ? Competence or talent. Looking good at the job ? Managed to get a large number of people the bullet.

Eventually there was a mutiny against him from all the other middle managers.....as he was pushing hard to climb the greasy pole.

But it is evidence that office politics matters. The Hitler & stalins promote loyalty in the senior ranks, not competence.

A Labour insider (chat show celebrity )gets promoted to the shadow cabinet in spite of multiple gaffs & David Starkey gets cancelled.

Edited by PalazioVecchio (10 Nov 2022 8.32am)

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford