Is Frank Walker really going to get a knighthood?

[Jason the Maverick]

It is true, since the Child abuse scandal and GST, some of the comments I have read about certain Senators and Deputies can only be described as spiteful and crass.

The Time 4 Change Rally on GST stuck photographs of the Ministers that voted for GST on a board in the Royal Square for people to ridicule and personally I thought it was disgusting.

At the end of the day, these people were voted in, whether they like it or not, they do have families and they do have lives outside of running the Island.

I am waiting for the time when they start burning effigies of politicians, because it cannot be that far away before they can get that low.

[boatyboy]

Just thought I would mention JTM your bad taste in the little picture, it reminds me of how some islanders would view how the guts are being ripped out of our yes…………… our....... beautiful island and home, and at the same time stuffed back in our faces, or in your picture, hit over the head. Maybe your sub conscious also feels the same, you’re a poet with little pictures.  Bring on the elections.

[Jason the Maverick]

I like your observations, though this was never the intention of the Avatar!

[Stuart Syvret]

Hadn’t looked at this thread before.

I just thought I’d make some observations which may be of interest.

The senior politicians in the Isle of Man do get Knighthoods once they’ve achieved the top job, done it reasonably well for a few years, etc, etc.

Yet Channel Island politicians don’t get Knighthoods. That Top Gong just didn’t go to Reg and Plausibility Pierre – just as it won’t go to Big Frank – just as it won’t go to Teflon Terry, when he takes over.

Why should this be?

Why do the IoM top-dogs get the K – but Channel Island politicians don’t?

I know the answer to this question.

Sure, in the ordinary run of things, there’d be some politicians who they wouldn’t even contemplate giving a K to – for example, to those who may seem a bit dodgy on some grounds. Likewise, it would be a simple impossibility for them to give a K to some frightful scum-bag prole like me. (Unless, of course, I could “donate” half-a-million quid to the Labour Party)

But there is a more definitive reason as to why Jersey politicians never get K’s.

The Bailiff’s have always vetoed it.

These kinds of awards are only given out after “soundings” are taken from amongst the usual suspects; chief amongst these in Jersey has always been the Bailiff of the day.

They have always stopped politicians getting K’s – because it would place the politician in question into the same social category – the same stature – as the Bailiff.

And one just couldn’t possibly have such a frightful state of affairs occurring, could one?

A mere politician? Elevated into the same social category as the Bailiffs? Dear oh dear. Simply an intolerable idea.

If an elected representative of the people were to be seen to enter that high realm – as well as offending the snobbishness of the Bailiff – it could also be seen to seriously weaken the already very tenuous and invented claim the Bailiff makes for being the civic head of Jersey.

So, Big Frank – or any other Jersey representative of the great unwashed – getting a K?

No chance – because the Bailiff wouldn’t let it happen.

Stuart.

[ageofaquarius]

Thats for clearing that one up Stuart.  Anyway, K's only go to ridiculously rich rock stars now, so they don't have the same clout as they used to, anyway, none of our lot are filthy rich enough.

[danrok]

I can see it now, the Lieutenant General Andrew Ridgway, Sir Philip Bailhache and Sir Stuart Syvret sipping Pims on the lawn at Government House.

Perhaps not! 

[Eastern correspondent]

Well Frankie can certainly afford to buy himself a knighthood...............Slur Frankie..................has a certain ring to  it!