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God save the Knights

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 11:16 pm

Bron

Categories: Media, Politics

Tags: honours, JohnHoward, RoyalKnight

Well, well. Aren’t NewsLtd in a snit this evening. As the main newspage says rather sulkily:

Wills honoured, John snubbed

Yes, it’s the story about Prince William receiving “one of Britain’s highest and oldest honours tonight - being made a Royal Knight of the Garter.”

Petulant phrases abound, such as:

There has been feverish speculation since the beginning of the year that former prime minister Mr Howard was the Queen’s personal pick for the honour.

But Buckingham Palace today put the kybosh on that, announcing that Prince William would be joining other members of his family as a Royal Knight of the Garter, the British Press Association reported.

Kybosh? Gosh.

Did you know that “appointments are in the Queen’s gift, without advice from government ministers”?

Which means apart from Prince William, everyone else, John included, got passed over by the Queen. Ouch. So much for defending the monarchy from the evil republicans back in 1999.

NewsLtd also bore us with details about the archaic routine following the announcement:

The knights meet at Windsor Castle every June, where new members are inducted.

A spectacular lunch is hosted by the Queen before the knights, wearing long blue velvet robes and black velvet hats with white plumes, attend a service at the historic St George’s Chapel.

Each of the knights is required to display a banner of their arms in the chapel, along with a helmet, crest and sword plus an enamelled stallplate.

I bet David Flint would like to play dress ups if that’s what a Royal Knight gets to wear.

30 Comments

krypto (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:14 am) #

suck shit to him I say, can you imagine litle Johnny scrotum in armour? He’d make Pancho Sanchez look heroic.
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:20 am) #

I saw somewhere earlier this evening on one of the media sites (either Fairfax or NewsLtd), before the announcement was made, where Johnno said (or said via his spokesperson) that he “didn’t know anything about this”. That’s despite the rumours being around since the beginning of the year! Pfft. Didn’t know, my arse.

But the piece where I saw that was gone after the announcement was made. Hmm.
krypto (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:32 am) #

surely that’d have to be a co-incidence huh? No Howard apologists at either Fairfax or News Ltd.
Zombie Mao (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:37 am) #

velvet robes, plumes
also fishnet stockings, belly button rings and gimp masks.

Yet no garter…
Now THATS odd.
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:40 am) #

SexiLexi would be rather upset, yes, Zombie Mao.
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 6:27 am) #

All those years of the monarchists clinging to Howard’s coat tails while he hangs onto Mrs Windsor’s coat tails and it all comes to nothing. That is so funny.

Looks like he is only accepted by groupthinkers in the Republic of the USA.
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 6:52 am) #

Could it be that while the monarchists were venting their enlarged spleens on New Ltd blogs, republicans were emailing Buckingham Palace with the awful truth about how unsuitable Howard would be for the Garter role?
Wah (Thursday 24 April 2008, 7:43 am) #

Even the Queen thinks he’s a cunt.
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 9:26 am) #

Could it be that while the monarchists were venting their enlarged spleens on New Ltd blogs, republicans were emailing Buckingham Palace with the awful truth about how unsuitable Howard would be for the Garter role?

Ssshhhhhhhhhh!
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 9:57 am) #

It’s hard to imagine a time when the right has been so ineffectual in Australian politics they are becoming more irrelevant by the day. Not only are their Listening Tours treated with contempt, but now their favoured institutions have stopped listening to them.
Bron (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:09 am) #

It’s delicious, Steve. Enjoy it!!
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:16 am) #

Talking about Tories who are lost with nobody willing to take them in, where have the hordes of Howard’s exgovernment advisers gone. All to centrelink or did they follow Reith’s son to London?
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:41 am) #

They might just be sitting around hoping to get a gong in the Queen’s Birthday honours list.
John Surname (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:41 am) #

They’re giving their regards to Broadway, yo.
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:44 am) #

Probably working on McCain’s campaign while there too.
David Tiley (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:12 pm) #

I wonder if Howard has allowed himself to think that he is entitled to something since Menzies became Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, which gave him responsibility for whales washed up on the beach and (I think) the swans of Britain.
steve (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:22 pm) #

Looks like Howard will just have to make do with the ‘Double Order of the Boot’. Once from the Australian electorate and once from her Maj.
Wah (Thursday 24 April 2008, 12:43 pm) #

I must say I was heartened by the comments to this story on the Herald Sun web site which were all, but one, cynically scathing against Howard including:

S U F F E R in ya jocks ,you little git of a human !!

Which has to be read out in an “outrageous French accent” to be fully appreciated.
Ant Rogenous (Thursday 24 April 2008, 4:01 pm) #

Back in February, our favourite retards at A Western Heart were gleefully jerking each other off over the prospect of Howard being knighted.

Poor old “ar” and MK will be crying into their strawberry milkshakes today. And I can’t tell you how sad that makes me.
THR (Thursday 24 April 2008, 4:41 pm) #

Poor old “ar” and MK will be crying into their strawberry milkshakes today.

Hey, those milkshakes bring all the right-wing boys to the yard.
krypto (Thursday 24 April 2008, 4:48 pm) #

those flying monkeys can’t take a trick can they, they can turn them sure, just not take them.
Bridgit Gread (Thursday 24 April 2008, 4:52 pm) #

Not only was Howard passed over, but he was passed over for a 20-something playboy whose only skillz are flying helicopters, chasing upper-class crumpet and pouting in public. All because Johnny is so common.

Chew those sour grapes, Howart.
Iain; Hall (Thursday 24 April 2008, 5:02 pm) #

Bridgit the fact of the matter is that before 1972 no body did think of doing this and it is on a Muffin not a roll :) You elitist lefties now if it had some quaint ethnic origin (focarccia anyone?) you lot would be singing it’s praises, and given the gentleman was an American from California he was of course not eligible for a knighthood.
Suburban Marxist (Thursday 24 April 2008, 5:07 pm) #

And people say the ‘cultural cringe’ is an ‘elitist’ sponsored meme…but I mean, really, what kind of self-respecting bourgeois-capitalist democracy still has an unelected head of state wielding some kind of authority, or even just as a figurehead?

No wonder we’re cringeworthy, we’re a couple of hundred years behind the French, who got it right in 1789.

Bring back the Guillotine!
Suburban Marxist (Thursday 24 April 2008, 5:10 pm) #

And even the Yanquis!

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
krypto (Thursday 24 April 2008, 5:11 pm) #

Viva la Guillotine!!!
THR (Thursday 24 April 2008, 5:13 pm) #

Exile would probably be sufficient, though ‘Madame Guillotine’ would bring some appropriate symbolism.
krypto (Thursday 24 April 2008, 5:38 pm) #

oh I think it’s an entirely appropriate outcome for greedy capitalists who “just want to get ahead”
brokenleftleg (Thursday 24 April 2008, 6:41 pm) #

I heard Downer is still getting treatment at a private medical clinic because of this decision, and he has been heard saying,”this has got to be much worse than anything hicks got in gauntanomo Bay.”
krypto (Thursday 24 April 2008, 10:09 pm) #

hive of activity on Grods tonight isn’t it? You’re all watching the footy show to see how Sam Newman got on with his prostate operation i take it?